said<\/a> on a podcast last month. \u201cIt\u2019s their face on the poster. It\u2019s their name on the poster. At the end of the day, that\u2019s how things are going to get done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAfter Carnahan left the Cruise-starring vehicle, a string of gritty crime and action thrillers, including The Grey and Smokin\u2019 Aces, followed over the next two decades, punctuated by Sony Pictures\u2019 2020 tentpole feature Bad Boys for Life, which he wrote.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt was around that time Carnahan started a relationship with Crosby. After meeting at the Palm Springs hotel, he continued to court her, the suit says, with the director on one occasion purchasing a plane ticket for her to stay with him for six weeks in Malta, where he was filming Not Without Hope. There, Carnahan pressed for Crosby to move to Los Angeles so they could formally start their production company, according to the cross-complaint. She finally relented later that year after he showed her a 7,000 square foot residence in Sierra Madre he said would be \u201cour home,\u201d the suit says. Once she relocated, Crosby says their relationship quickly changed.<\/p>\n
\n\tDays after moving in December 2023, the suit claims, the two fought over a comment she made to his daughters. In response, Carnahan shoved her into the Christmas tree and \u201cstruck her repeatedly though a sofa cushion while pinning her beneath his nearly 300-pound frame,\u201d the cross-complaint says.<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter the incident, Carnahan called the Sierra Madre Police Department and told officers that Crosby had attacked him, according to the suit. She was arrested for domestic violence and later released under a five-day protective order that barred her from contacting Carnahan.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe pair reconciled, but in February 2024, another fight escalated into violence when Carnahan seized Crosby by the throat and slammed her to the floor, the cross-complaint claims. Days later, he obtained a temporary restraining order requiring her to move out of their home. \u201cWhen she asked what is happening, he gave no reply,\u201d the suit states. \u201cInstead, he charged at her, tackled her to the floor in the foyer, and screamed in her face that if she did not leave, he would kill her.\u201d After the incident, Crosby was arrested a second time after Carnahan filed a frivolous domestic violence report, according to the cross-complaint.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the suit, Crosby says that she moved out of the Sierra Madre home she lived in with Carnahan in March. Soon after, she alleges Carnahan began to surveil and threaten her. On one occasion, the suit claims, a truck pulled up beside her, with the driver loudly speaking into his phone, \u201cJoe, we found her, do you want us to grab her?\u201d She started to received text messages from Carnahan showing that he knew her exact location, requiring her to receive psychiatric care for post-traumatic stress disorder, the suit says.<\/p>\n
\n\tWith limited funds remaining, Crosby in May agreed to meet Carnahan, who was engaged in talks to close his deal with Artist Equity for The Rip, at the Sands Hotel in Indian Wells, according to the cross-complaint. Once in her room, he sexually assaulted her while \u201cpulling her hair and ignoring her screams to stop,\u201d the suit says. In an interview with THR, she says she was \u201csubjected to violent battery during a non-consensual sexual act, causing permanent scalp damage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tCrosby later reported the encounter, which Carnahan said was consensual, to law enforcement in Riverside County. It\u2019s among several reports she\u2019s filed, including one in Sierra Madre for assault, another in Monrovia for the theft of roughly $3 million in luxury fashion items allegedly stolen by Carnahan from her storage facility and a third in Los Angeles for harassment.<\/p>\n
\n\tLast week, Sgt. Jeffrey Cryder of the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department issued a supplemental report to prosecutors. \u201cI spoke to the DA supervisor and she will be reviewing it herself,\u201d he wrote in an email sent to Crosby on Jan. 21. On Tuesday, a spokesperson said charges will not be filed, citing \u201cinsufficient evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn his lawsuit, Carnahan says that Crosby is harassing him and his family members. He seeks at least $33,000 for damages to his Porsche and a court order barring Crosby from initiating contact with him.<\/p>\n
\n\tCrosby says there \u201cremains a lapse in accountability\u201d in Hollywood by companies that partner with people \u201cknowing about the abuses and hoping it stays quiet.\u201d Her lawyer, James Daly, says the allegations are \u201call supported by photographic evidence, communications, and other documentation.\u201d He added, \u201cThese are not mere accusations; they describe a monstrous abuse of power by a prominent Hollywood figure now enjoying renewed success with the release of The Rip on Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tArtists Equity, which produced the cop drama, did not respond to requests for comment. Netflix, which distributed, declined to comment.<\/p>\n
\n\tCarnahan released a full statement through his rep, below:<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s\u00a0very upsetting that Joe and his family have been subjected to an endless retaliatory campaign of baseless allegations from an individual who has twice been arrested for\u00a0domestic violence \u2014 against both Joe and his children and by the person\u2019s own mother \u2014 and the same someone who stole a car leased in Joe\u2019s name and was involved in a DUI hit & run involving a municipal bus, causing bodily injury to others.<\/p>\n
This was a completely consensual relationship which ended in Spring 2024 and since then the other party has consistently threatened Joe with exactly what you\u2019re reading now \u2013 the threat to attack Joe publicly when his film was released. The allegations against Joe were dismissed in July of 2025 and he has not had any contact with the defendant outside of a courtroom last May, while trying to obtain a permanent restraining order against her.<\/p>\n
Joe is committed to seeing this process through for the sake of his children and their safety and hopes that the other person will seek the help they need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Michelle Crosby first met director Joe\u00a0Carnahan in 2020 at the pool of a Palm Springs hotel, they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,90991],"class_list":["post-437557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-the-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437557","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=437557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}