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Renée Zellweger and her boyfriend, Ant Anstead, are facing legal trouble.
According to a Wednesday, February 18, TMZ report, the couple are being sued by a woman named Tracey Bryn Belland who claims she was seriously injured in 2024 while visiting a Laguna Beach, California, home the For the Love of Cars star was renting.
The civil complaint, also obtained by People, filed last year in Orange County Superior Court stated that Belland “tripped and fell on the patio” because “a thin rug had been placed over a hole,” causing her to injure her right knee.
She allegedly suffers “physical, economic and emotional injuries because of the fall,” People reported.
The complaint reportedly accuses the Bridget Jones Diary star, 56, and her boyfriend, 46 — as well as the property owner, Glenn Alan Wilson — of one count of negligence.
TMZ reported that Wilson filed a cross-complaint against Zellweger and Anstead, claiming that they were responsible for exposing Belland to harm.
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Zellweger and Anstead denied all allegations against them, and they claim Anstead “acted reasonably” as a tenant of the home “and performed all duties required of him under the rental agreement.”
A source with knowledge of the matter told the Daily Mail that Zellweger never lived at the rental property in question and maintained that the actress was never on the lease.
The source claimed Belland was there as part of a gathering of friends at the home, but said Zellweger didn’t witness the alleged fall because she was taking her dog to the veterinarian.
According to the lease, per People, Anstead agreed to rent the home from January 1, 2024, to January 1, 2025.
The publication also reported that the case is set to go to jury trial on June 22.