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Friday, January 22, 2010 - 9:13 PM
While still pregnant with their second
child, starlet Denise Richards decided that her marriage to Hollywood
bad-boy Charlie Sheen was over in March 2005. While rumors of
reconciliation surfaced later in the year, in January 2006, the couple
entered private arbitration to settle their affairs and end the
marriage. In April, Richards upped the stakes by filing for a
restraining order against Sheen for alleged compulsive gambling, abuse
of prescription medication and verbal and physical threats against her.
Sheen denied the charges, but did not protest the extension of the
restraining order in June. In August, the restraining order was allowed
to lapse, and their divorce was official in November 2006, but the
issue of child custody defied resolution. In August 2007, Sheen filed
for expanded visitation privileges and sparred with Richards over the
children's nannies for the rest of the year. In January 2008, Richards
announced her intention to involve the children in her E! reality
series Denise Richards: It's Complicated, and Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
unsuccessfully took her to court to stop her. After Sheen's remarriage
in May 2008, the level of rhetoric between the two camps cooled, but
Sheen's arrest for domestic assault on his new wife in December 2009
may reopen the struggle.
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