Ambyr Childers, who was married to filmmaker Randall Emmett for eight years, is in search of a home violence restraining order from her ex-husband.
Childers, an actor who most lately appeared on Netflix’s “You,” filed the request Monday in L.A. County Superior Court docket, citing “legit worry for [her] security and well-being.” On Tuesday, her request for an emergency non permanent order was denied by a decide who cited lack of proof, however a listening to to overview the matter was set for Nov. 14.
Based on her petition, Childers sought the restraining order after discovering “threatening” correspondence between Emmett and his legal professional. Childers stated in her declaration that she emailed Emmett final Friday to alert him that she had acquired discover from their elder daughter’s college complaining she was regularly late whereas below Emmett’s care. (She and Emmett share joint authorized and bodily custody of two daughters, ages 12 and eight.) When Emmett responded, Childers stated, his message included copies of emails he had exchanged together with his household regulation legal professional, Ben Valencia.
In these emails, Valencia allegedly wrote: “When will you get some actual cash collectively so we will take this c— out as soon as and for all. This isn't good on your ladies.”
Minutes later, the courtroom information say, Emmett responded: “I don’t have actual cash for this and you understand it.”
Emmett and Valencia didn't instantly reply to The Instances’ request for remark; Childers had no remark.
In her declaration, Childers stated she had mulled over Valencia’s message since studying it and was most frightened by the “finality and desperation” of his phrases. “If not the infliction of bodily hurt on me, would the cash be to set me up?” she wrote. “Is it some form of bribe for regulation enforcement? With Randy’s historical past of unlawful and/or intimidating exercise, nothing is off the desk, and all potential interpretations make me worry for my security.”
She goes on to say within the petition that Emmett — a producer-turned-director who has made greater than 120 films — was emotionally and verbally abusive to her throughout their marriage. Childers wrote in her declaration that Emmett “would put his hand round my neck and inform me that I might by no means get away from him.”
The couple divorced in December 2017, however in January of that yr, she stated that she discovered a monitoring system positioned below her automotive. Within the courtroom submitting, she stated that Emmett later “admitted to me that his legal professional Ben Valencia had directed him to rent a personal investigator who then positioned the monitoring system on my automotive.”
In her authorized paperwork, Childers additionally extensively cites a June Instances investigation that included allegations of inappropriate conduct with girls, ties to a LAPD officer and mistreatment of workers. By means of his spokeswoman, Sallie Hofmeister, Emmett vehemently denied the unsavory conduct described within the article. However in Monday’s courtroom submitting, Childers stated Emmett supplied to pay her $50,000 to “stand beside him and refute what the article stated.” She declined, she stated, as a result of she is “simply as a lot a sufferer as the opposite victims within the article.”
Within the June story, the Instances detailed how Emmett allegedly supplied quite a few girls cash in change for his or her silence concerning their sexual relationships with him. Final January, Emmett was despatched a settlement settlement by Gloria Allred stipulating he would pay about $200,000 to a Allred’s shopper, an actor who claimed the producer made her carry out sexual favors to obtain appearing work from him. Hofmeister wouldn't touch upon the alleged cost however stated Emmett “adamantly denies” the actor’s claims.
Lala Kent, a “Vanderpump Guidelines” star who was engaged to Emmett from 2018 to 2021, additionally informed The Instances that one other of Emmett’s attorneys as soon as supplied her $14,000 on her shopper’s behalf in change for retaining her relationship with Emmett a secret. Kent stated she didn't take the cash, and an individual near Emmett stated the account was inaccurate.
Kent and Emmett are at present concerned in a custody battle over their 1-year-old daughter. On Monday, Childers, 34, requested the courtroom for sole authorized custody of her two daughters. She is asking a decide to require that Emmett, 51, keep 100 yards away from her, her residence, her office and her car and she or he desires Emmett to attend a 52-week batterer intervention program.
Workers author Meg James and Instances researcher Cary Schneider contributed to this report.
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