Denise Richards gets restraining order against husband Aaron Phypers, alleges physical and verbal abuse

Actor Denise Richards has been granted a temporary restraining order against her estranged husband, Aaron Phypers, after she accused him of domestic violence and verbal abuse and showed the court photos of a black eye she endured

Actor Denise Richards has been granted a temporary restraining order against her estranged husband, Aaron Phypers, after she accused him of domestic violence and verbal abuse and showed the court photos of a black eye she endured.

Richards, 54, filed for a domestic violence restraining order Wednesday in Superior Court in California, and it was granted the same day.

Phypers, 49, filed a petition for a dissolution of marriage on July 7. The couple were married in September 2018 and share no children.

In her request for the restraining order, Richards listed several instances of abuse, including from July 4 to July 14.

Richards wrote that on July 4, she told Phypers that his family had to move out of the family home they once shared, which she moved out of in 2023. When she told him, he became "enraged," started screaming degrading profanities at her and grabbed her left arm tightly, the request said.