The Bachelor Creator Mike Fleiss and Spouse Laura Battle for Full Custody of Son Amid Assault Accusations

The Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss and estranged pregnant spouse Laura Fleiss have begun battling for custody over their son after exchanging accusations of home violence.

On Tuesday, a Los Angeles decide granted a short lived restraining order in opposition to Mike after Laura claimed he verbally and bodily attacked her at their Hawaii residence over the Fourth of July weekend for refusing to get an abortion. He denies the allegations, and says she was the one who attacked him. Police are investigating the incident. No arrests have been made.

The momentary restraining order issued in opposition to Mike protects each Laura and the couple’s Four-year-old son, Ben, who was current in the identical residence on the time of the alleged violence. On Wednesday, Laura filed paperwork asking a decide to grant her full bodily and authorized custody of the kid, and for Mike to pay baby and spousal assist to her, in addition to all of her authorized charges for the divorce, The Blast reported.

Mike had filed divorce paperwork to finish his five-year marriage to Laura final week, days after the couple’s confrontation and every week earlier than it was made public. In his submitting, he requested joint authorized and bodily custody of Ben, in response to a number of reviews. However in his response to Laura’s momentary restraining order request, he acknowledged, “I do not know the place Ben is and I would like custody of him due to Laura’s instability…I additional request that Laura be ordered to right away return our son Ben to Los Angeles, and for me to have major custody.”

In response to The Blast, Mike acknowledged in his unique divorce submitting that he and Laura have a prenup that may dictate each spousal and baby assist. 

In her momentary restraining order request, filed on Tuesday and obtained by E! Information, Laura had acknowledged that Mike had informed her many occasions all through their relationship that he didn’t wish to have a second baby together with her, and that in latest weeks, he “turned enraged” that she was pregnant. She mentioned that on July Four, Mike informed her he was slicing her off financially, that “subsequent time I see you, I do not wish to see your abdomen,” and that “you’ve gotten a alternative, you possibly can select. Have an abortion or return to Wisconsin, however you aren’t taking Ben.” She mentioned he demanded she present him financial institution statements displaying she paid for an abortion.

She mentioned that the next day, he continued to berate her, calling her phrases like “$50,000 whore,” and “f—king c—t,” which she mentioned had been phrases he has allegedly used in opposition to her earlier than. She mentioned she tried to go to a different room to name her mom. She mentioned Mike “made threats that I might lose entry to my household and my household’s capability to see Ben” after which pressured her to name her mother, after which he allegedly “grabbed the telephone” and informed her mom that she wouldn’t see her daughter till “after August 5—after the abortion.”

Laura mentioned day later, whereas she was within the couple’s mattress with their son, who was affected by a chilly, Mike demanded her cellular phone and forcibly grabbed it and left the room. She mentioned she adopted him and he allegedly yelled that he was going to shove her down the steps. She mentioned they made it outdoors of the entrance door, the place he allegedly, “grabbed my physique, forcibly pinned me up in opposition to the wall and held me there.” She mentioned he then aggressively pushed her away and walked away together with her telephone in direction of his truck, shouting, “I will punch your face in.” Laura connected what she mentioned was surveillance footage of Mike pushing her outdoors.

She mentioned that as she was standing on the working board under the driver-side door of the car, Mike allegedly put the truck in reverse and started to again up, telling Laura, ‘You are f–ked.’ He then allegedly stopped the automobile, virtually inflicting her to fall off the working board. She mentioned he then shoved her off it and drove away together with her telephone. She mentioned she screamed for assist, attracting the eye of a neighbor, who known as the police. She additionally connected what she mentioned had been pictures of arm bruises, a neck scratch and a tear in her costume allegedly attributable to “Mike’s violent habits.”

“I’m afraid of Mike,” she wrote. “I’m afraid he’ll proceed to behave erratically in direction of me, verbally and bodily, and within the presence of Ben. I’ve been hiding in a resort for the previous a number of days with Ben, and wish to have the ability to return residence with out concern for myself, my son and my unborn baby.”

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In his response, additionally filed on Tuesday and obtained by E! Information, Mike acknowledged, “I’ve not harm, attacked or tried to bodily hurt Laura or our baby.” He mentioned that through the July 6 incident, “Laura was the aggressor…and bodily attacked me. I attempted to get away from her as she was chasing and hitting me.” He mentioned he has his personal safety footage of the incident.

He claims that the 2 had sought assist from a wedding counselor earlier this 12 months, and that he did “not wish to have one other baby as Laura had points with emotional stability and had a tough time caring for Ben when he was a child.” He mentioned that they’d agreed to not have one other child and that she later informed him she was on contraception.

“On Father’s Day, Laura informed me she was eight weeks pregnant,” he wrote. “After I questioned her about the contraception, she mentioned contraception shouldn’t be at all times efficient.”

Mike mentioned that whereas he “began to get excited concerning the new child and our life collectively,” he realized “that Laura had been mendacity to me about having a child and that she was by no means on contraception,” which he says she admitted and apologized for.

He mentioned that he started to get involved that she was hiding different info from him and denied repeated requests to let him see her telephone.

He mentioned that on July 6, whereas Ben was asleep of their room, he “informed Laura that the one approach I may proceed within the marriage is that if she was trustworthy with me” and requested to see her telephone, saying he was involved she was dishonest on him, and that she may very well be pregnant with one other man’s child. He mentioned he “took it out of her hand” when she refused to present it to him.

He mentioned he headed out of the home, throughout which she allegedly pounded him together with her fists and jumped on his again to attempt to get her telephone again, and at one level pounded on him “so exhausting that the facet of my head was slammed in opposition to the wall.” He mentioned she climbed into his truck “persevering with to assault” him and retrieve her telephone, and that he slowly began to again out to see if she would depart, after which she allegedly jumped out. He mentioned after he drove away, he had a good friend return the telephone to Laura. 

He mentioned he flew again to their Los Angeles residence two days later for work, and that that morning, Laura texted him saying they need to discuss. He mentioned she texted him once more a day later and informed him she contacted the police, then ceased contact with him.

“I do not know the place she or Ben are,” he wrote. “I’m very involved about Ben’s security and Laura’s emotional state.”