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Denise Richards made her first look in court docket on Monday, Sept. 8, as a part of her ongoing and extremely publicized divorce from Aaron Phypers. Whereas the listening to for her restraining order request was postponed till subsequent month, Richards was granted short-term reduction permitting her to entry the couple’s shared residence.
In accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by PEOPLE, a choose dominated on Sept. 13 that Richards might return to one in all their residences “to retrieve her mom’s and her personal private property, together with the canine.” In the meantime, Phypers has been ordered to remain 100 yards away from the property, per the short-term restraining order issued in July.
The submitting additionally mandates that Phypers should “take no motion which might intrude with Ms. Richards entry.”
As well as, Phypers has been ordered to return Richards’ laptop computer and an outdated mobile phone, which she claimed he took in violation of the restraining order. He should return the units by the tip of day on Sept. 9. Phypers, nevertheless, has “beforehand denied being in possession of the gadgets.”
The postponement of the restraining order listening to was initially requested by Phypers, however Richards’ authorized workforce opposed additional delays. In a court docket submitting, they argued that “any additional continuance will prejudice Denise and trigger additional misery to Denise by not permitting her finality to her Request For Home Violence Restraining Order.”
The couple, who have been married in 2018, have each made severe allegations for the reason that divorce proceedings started. Phypers listed their date of separation as July 4 and cited “irreconcilable variations” as the rationale for the cut up.
Simply days after the preliminary submitting, Richards accused Phypers of home violence, alleging that he “repeatedly abused” her throughout their relationship. A choose granted her a brief restraining order in response.
Phypers has categorically denied these claims. In a earlier assertion, he referred to as the allegations “utterly false and deeply hurtful.”
In July, Richards additional alleged that Phypers violated the restraining order and renewed her request that he return her laptop computer. She additionally sought to forestall him from sharing any non-public data saved on the gadget—an allegation Phypers once more denied.
The authorized battle took one other flip final week when Richards filed a response to Phypers’ divorce petition. She requested spousal assist, requested the court docket to terminate its skill to award him assist, and petitioned for him to cowl her authorized charges. She additionally acknowledged that “the complete nature and extent” of her “separate property property and money owed are unknown right now,” as are their group property.
Curiously, whereas Phypers cited July 4 because the official date of separation, Richards listed it as “TBD.”
In a brand new assertion, Phypers lashed out at Richards, saying: “Denise Richards is making an attempt to humiliate me once more, simply as she did together with her first ex, Charlie Sheen, six years in the past at present!”
“It’s the identical vengeance playbook as Charlie stated, ‘D and her authorized posse solely deal in fiction. My day in court docket is painfully overdue. She is behaving like a coward, and the reality will prevail,’” he continued. “I, too, shall be vindicated when the reality comes out, simply as Charlie promised. Our household has been ruined by Denise’s lies of promising to finish a year-long affair.”
As each events proceed to commerce accusations, the subsequent court docket look is anticipated to offer extra readability in what has turn out to be a really public and painful separation.
