Prosecutors in Los Angeles have dropped costs towards Implausible 4 star Ioan Gruffudd’s estranged spouse Alice Evans who had been accused of defying a restraining order the Welsh actor has towards her.
Evans, 54, had pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of violating the order which bans her from posting disparaging remarks about Gruffudd, 49, or his 29 year-old girlfriend Bianca Wallace on social media.
However at a listening to Thursday at LA’s Airport Courthouse, Commissioner James Cooper dismissed the costs after prosecutors advised the court docket they had been ‘unable to proceed.’
Alice Evans is seen for the primary time since violation of a restraining order costs had been dropped in Los Angeles
Evans was pictured alongside her daughter, Ella, leaving a Dealer Joe’s grocery store
At a listening to Friday – the place Evans didn’t seem in particular person – her legal professional, public defender, Daniel Stefanic, filed a movement asking for a ruling that will declare her ‘factually harmless’
Outdoors court docket Friday, Stefanic advised DailyMail.com that regardless that the costs towards Evans have been dismissed, ‘she desires to be declared factually harmless of the costs’
The 102 Dalmatians star appeared downbeat as she loaded groceries into the household’s automobile
At a follow-up listening to Friday – the place Evans didn’t seem in particular person – her legal professional, public defender, Daniel Stefanic, filed a movement asking for a ruling that will declare her ‘factually harmless’ of the costs.
Commissioner Cooper at first denied the movement, telling the court docket that ‘a discovering of factual innocence opens the county (LA county) up for civil legal responsibility.
‘The county doesn’t need us to rule on points like this by the seat of our pants.’
However on the urging of Stefanic, Commissioner Cooper withdrew his denial of the movement, deferring his ruling till one other listening to he scheduled for April 25.
Outdoors court docket Friday, Stefanic advised DailyMail.com that regardless that the costs towards Evans have been dismissed, ‘she desires to be declared factually harmless of the costs’
Alice Evans (pictured leaving court docket in January), 54, had pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of violating the retraining order her estranged husband Ioan Gruffudd had towards her. At a listening to Thursday, the costs had been dismissed after prosecutors advised the court docket they had been ‘unable to proceed’
‘I can’t depart the home with out being photographed and advised that I’m fats and horrible whereas “B” is so slim,’ Evans wrote referring to Wallace
Gruffudd filed for joint custody of his two daughters final July after Alice filed for sole custody amid their acrimonious divorce
Saying that the restraining order costs have triggered Evans’s identify to be ‘dragged by the mud,’ he added, ‘This was a violation of her civil rights.’
The LA Deputy District Lawyer prosecuting the case refused to remark.
The restraining order legal case had triggered the previous couple’s bitter divorce and custody battles over their two daughter, Ella, 13, and Elsie, 9 to be placed on maintain – a lot to the chagrin of Gruffudd.
The warring exes had been scheduled to seem final month at a court docket custody listening to the place Gruffudd hoped his request could be granted for extra time along with his daughters than the at some point every week he will get now.
However Evans requested the Household Courtroom choose within the divorce case for a postponement of that listening to until after her restraining order trial.
Evans had been accused of defying a restraining order the Welsh actor Gruffudd has towards her
Her legal professional, Marie LaMolinara, argued that testimony Alice provides on the custody listening to could possibly be used towards her in her legal trial if it was held later, violating her rights, beneath the fifth Modification to not incriminate herself.
Household Courtroom Decide Josh Freeman Stinn – who’s presiding over the couple’s messy divorce – agreed and postponed the custody listening to to July 13, regardless of vehement opposition from Gruffudd who accused Alice of ‘damaging his relationship’ along with his daughters.
However now that there is no such thing as a longer a legal case towards Evans, Gruffudd may return to Decide Stinn to ask for that July 13 custody listening to to be held earlier.
Gruffudd was married to Evans for 14 years earlier than their messy break up
Gruffudd and Evans met whereas filming the film 102 Dalmatians in 1999
Alice risked violating her restraining order by taking to social media to publish about their separation
Gruffudd filed for divorce in March final 12 months after Evans claimed on social media that her husband of 14 years was strolling out on her and their two daughters.
Evans stored blasting him till he sought the restraining order stopping her from sharing their non-public messages or bashing him and Wallace on-line.
Gruffudd filed for joint custody of his two daughters final July after Evans filed for sole custody amid their acrimonious divorce.
In addition to requesting visitation rights, he claimed within the submitting that Evans had been purposely attempting to chop communication between him and his youngsters.
He additionally petitioned that the ladies attend in-person remedy and reunification remedy through zoom with him pending court-ordered mediation about custody.
In court docket filings, Gruffudd accused Evans of verbally abusing him throughout their marriage, and ‘undermining him’ in entrance of the ladies all through their lives.’
‘Alice made enjoyable of my look typically, making hair-loss feedback and telling me I had ”saggy-vagina eyes,”’ court docket papers learn.
He went on to assert that Evans ‘has inflicted severe emotional hurt on Ella and Elsie by her statements and by interfering in my relationship with them.’
Gruffudd claimed in his submitting that Evans had been interfering with communication between him and his youngsters. Gruffudd accused Evans of verbally abusing him throughout their marriage, and ‘undermining him’ in entrance of the ladies all through their lives’
In a video earlier than the previous couple’s separation in January 2021, which Gruffudd offered as proof within the submitting, Evans allegedly advised Ella she could be ‘getting a brand new daddy.’
‘In a FaceTime I had with the ladies on March 3, Ella stated Alice falsely advised her that I wished Alice to commit suicide, and that Ella most likely wouldn’t have a mummy anymore,’ Gruffudd wrote within the petition.
‘Ella advised me, ‘Daddy, that is making me very unhappy,’ and, ‘if I do not agree together with her, apparently I’m a foul daughter.’
Evans risked violating her restraining order by taking to social media to publish about their separation.
On Instagram, she wrote: ‘I am understanding to attempt to calm myself down as a result of I’m being GASLIT. Freaking GASLIT.
‘With my children, with the locations I normally go to. Every part. I can not depart the home with out being photographed and advised that I’m fats and horrible whereas “B” is so slim….
She signed off: ‘… I can not deal for for much longer.’