Denise Richards Gets Restraining Order Against Husband Aaron Phypers, Alleges Physical And Verbal Abuse

Denise Richards has been granted a impermanent restraining bid against her estranged hubby Aaron Phypers aft she accused him of home violence, verbal maltreatment and showed nan tribunal photos of a black-eye she endured.

The 54-year-old character revenge for a home unit restraining bid connected Wednesday successful nan Superior Court of California and it was granted nan aforesaid day.

It comes aft Phypers, 49, revenge a petition for a dissolution of matrimony on July 7. The mates were joined successful September 2018 and stock nary children.

In her petition for nan restraining order, Richards listed respective instances of abuse, including from July 4 to July 14.

Richards wrote that connected July 4, she told Phypers that his family had to move retired of nan family location they erstwhile shared, which she moved retired of successful 2023. When she told him, he became "enraged" and started screaming degrading profanities astatine her, and grabbed her near limb tightly, nan petition said.

The adjacent day, she said Phypers showed up astatine 1 of her townhouses and he erstwhile again sewage successful her look and started yelling insults astatine her, according to nan request. Later, nan petition said she recovered him successful nan car shed and he grabbed some of her arms forcefully and pushed and dragged her down to nan ground, and she landed connected nan stairs. Aaron’s father, Steven Phypers, besides began to outcry astatine her saying he was going to show nan media and net that she is simply a “whore,” her petition said.

Richards said successful nan petition that Phypers “repeatedly abused maine during nan marriage” and “threatened to termination maine and himself and nan police.”

She said he owns astatine slightest 8 unregistered guns.

Richards besides described an maltreatment incident connected May 21 erstwhile Phypers allegedly downloaded accusation from her iCloud, took pictures of her backstage matter messages and transferred it to his ain laptop while she was asleep.

Phypers past woke her up and screamed insults astatine her, according to nan request. Later, arsenic she was utilizing nan bathroom, Phypers allegedly “smashed” nan apical of her caput pinch nan thenar of his manus and screamed astatine her many times to manus complete her phone.

Richards wrote successful nan petition that Phypers would often “violently choke me, violently compression my caput pinch some hands, tightly compression my arms, violently slap maine successful my look and head, aggressively slam my caput into nan bath towel rack, threatened to termination me."

Phypers allegedly regularly threatened to “break” her jaw and would “cry, request maine to stay, and committedness to get thief — nary of which ever happened,” nan petition said.

She said Phypers caused her astatine slightest 3 concussions.

A photograph from nan tribunal filing shows Denise Richards pinch a bruised eye.Superior Court of California

She besides described a anterior maltreatment incident connected Jan. 17, 2022, wherever Phypers utilized nan bottommost of his thenar to onslaught her successful nan oculus and called her a “f---ing b----.” The adjacent greeting her oculus was swollen and achromatic and blue, and nan bruising took complete a period to heal. Richards supplied a photograph of nan achromatic oculus pinch her filing.

Richards asked nan tribunal for a nary interaction bid and a request that Phypers return her laptops, pictures, recordings and cellphones, and asked that Phypers beryllium prohibited from utilizing aliases disclosing immoderate items taken from her telephone aliases laptop.

Richards said she was acrophobic to study him aliases record for a restraining bid “because he has many times threatened to termination himself and maine if I reported him to nan police.”

Phypers was ordered by nan tribunal to enactment 100 yards distant from Richards, her homes, workplaces and cars. The bid expires aft a proceeding group for Aug. 8.

Representatives for Richards and Phypers did not instantly respond to NBC News requests for comment.

Richards and Phypers precocious had a Bravo reality bid astir their family life entitled “Denise Richards & Her Wild Things” that premiered successful March. Phypers besides appeared connected TV pinch Richards erstwhile she was a formed personnel connected "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."

Richards was antecedently joined to Charlie Sheen from 2002 to 2006. They stock 2 children together: Sami Sheen, 21, and Lola Sheen, 20. Richards is besides a mom to girl Eloise Joni Richards, 14, whom she adopted successful 2011 arsenic a azygous mom.