Embattled Hollywood agent had wife falsely arrested, new court filing says

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Expertise agent Adam Venit arrives on the Yahoo Sports activities Presents A Day Of Champions occasion on the Sports activities Museum of Los Angeles on Nov. 6, 2011. He's being sued by his estranged spouse for sexual abuse.
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The as soon as high-flying Hollywood agent Adam Venit allegedly admitted to having his spouse Trina arrested underneath false pretenses, in response to a courtroom submitting Thursday in Los Angeles federal courtroom.

The submitting features a January 2019 letter to his estranged spouse Trina by which Venit explains the circumstances that led to her arrest and apologizes for his conduct.

“We have been arguing and it was heated, however I STUPIDLY concerned our children and made the error of working scared and doing the UNTHINKABLE of getting you arrested,” the letter stated. “One of many two biggest failures and regrets in my life. I AM SO SORRY.”

A consultant for Adam Venit couldn't be reached for remark.

The letter was included in a movement filed this week by attorneys for Trina Venit in U.S. Central District Court docket in Los Angeles. She sued the previous WME accomplice in June, accusing him of sexual assault, battery and false imprisonment over a interval of a number of years.

Venit alleged that in a 2019 altercation her husband chased her round their house in an try to seek out her telephone and threatened to report her for home violence, throwing himself down “within the hopes of producing an damage to help his concocted abuse declare,” in response to her lawsuit. Police arrested Trina Venit for home violence and launched her the next morning, she stated.

Earlier this month, Adam Venit requested the federal courtroom to dismiss her criticism, arguing the matter needs to be resolved in household courtroom. He stated in a submitting that Trina Venit’s allegations of home violence have been “completely fabricated” and that she is trying to misuse this federal discussion board as a part of her ongoing quest to acquire greater than half of the events’ marital property.”

However on Thursday Trina Venit filed an opposition to that movement to dismiss her case, together with the letter allegedly written by Venit by which he describes psychological points that led as much as their dispute and her arrest.

“Within the letter, Defendant admits that he known as the police on Plaintiff — conspicuously notdue to any precise or threatened violence by her towards him — however relatively attributable to amongst different issues Defendant’s ‘confused psychology’; ‘stress and [Plaintiff’s] threats to jot down a guide [and] name [Defendant] homosexual,’” Trina Venit said in her criticism. “This letter constitutes a transparent admission that Defendant’s model of occasions was fabricated from the start.”

Venit, whose purchasers included stars like Adam Sandler, caught public consideration in 2018 when he stepped down from WME following allegations by Terry Crews that Venit groped him at a celebration in West Hollywood in 2016. The lawsuit was settled and Venit apologized to Crews for the incident.

In March 2021, Adam Venit filed for divorce after 22 years of marriage. Trina obtained a brief home violence restraining order towards her estranged husband, with proof of a number of situations of abuse. The Los Angeles Police Division “confiscated a minimum of eight firearms and voluminous ammunition belonging to Adam from the household’s former residence on April 17, 2021,” she stated alleged in her lawsuit.

Two months later, Venit filed his personal home violence restraining order towards Trina, from Hawaii, the place he at the moment resides, in response to her criticism.

Each restraining orders have been subsequently dropped.

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