{"id":233462,"date":"2025-10-18T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233462\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:19:07","slug":"denise-richards-ex-aaron-phypers-arrested-in-courthouse-for-spousal-abuse-during-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233462\/","title":{"rendered":"Denise Richard\u2019s ex Aaron Phypers arrested in courthouse for spousal abuse during trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denise Richards\u2019 ex-husband, Aaron Phypers, has been arrested in a Los Angeles courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Phypers was handcuffed inside the courtroom on Friday, October 17, on spousal abuse charges, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/denise-richards-ex-aaron-phypers-arrested-court-actress-fights-restraining-order\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/denise-richards-ex-aaron-phypers-arrested-court-actress-fights-restraining-order\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fox News Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former couple has been in court the past week for a hearing for Richards to obtain a restraining order against Phypers.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/denise-richards-ex-aaron-phypers-suddenly-arrested-in-court-on-felony-warrant-11832403\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/people.com\/denise-richards-ex-aaron-phypers-suddenly-arrested-in-court-on-felony-warrant-11832403\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People Magazine,<\/a> a criminal complaint was filed at the Van Nuys courthouse on Wednesday. Phypers is facing criminal charges including two counts of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fianc\u00e9, boyfriend, girlfriend or child&#8217;s parent; and two counts of dissuading a witness by force or threat. Three of the alleged incidents took place on Jan 17, 2022, and one on May 3, 2022 according to documents obtained by People.<\/p>\n<p>Phypers filed for divorce in July, and Richards was granted a temporary restraining order at the time after allegations of physical and emotional abuse during their marriage, including an alleged violent incident that occurred around the time he filed for divorce.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing earlier this month, Richards stated that her former husband \u201ccaused me at least three concussions\u201d during their marriage, according to People Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>She also claimed he attempted to destroy her reputation following their breakup by stealing her laptop and leaking sensitive information and nude photos of her, per Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to People magazine, Phypers denied Richards&#8217; allegations, saying, &#8220;I absolutely deny the false allegations that I violated the restraining order or stole Denise&#8217;s laptop or cellphones. These claims are not only untrue, they are being weaponized to damage my reputation and distract from the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denise Richards\u2019 ex-husband, Aaron Phypers, has been arrested in a Los Angeles courtroom. Phypers was handcuffed inside the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[18251,82965,129794,3599,14837,8018,88,36740,129793],"class_list":["post-233462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aaron-phypers","tag-allegations","tag-courtroom-arrest","tag-denise-richards","tag-divorce","tag-domestic-violence","tag-entertainment","tag-restraining-order","tag-spousal-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}