Denise Richards’ estranged husband Aaron Phypers shared photos from inside their $3.5 million home on Friday.
He has accused the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 54, of leaving the rental property in a mess when she moved out.
It was not made clear how much of the mess Phypers made himself.
The 52-year-old actor gave a tour of the abandoned home to Inside Edition and showcased the rooms with piles of moth-covered clothes strewn about as well as the furniture covered in trash and dust.
‘There’s hundreds of dollars worth of vintage clothing in here. It is riddled with moths,’ Phypers claimed during the interview.
Richards denied his claims and said she had not lived at the home in two years, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.
This comes after the reality TV star scored a significant legal win in her first court appearance in her contentious divorce battle with Phypers.
Denise Richards’s estranged husband Aaron Phypers shared photos of their $3.5 million home; pictured June 2023
The 52-year-old actor gave a tour of the abandoned home to Inside Edition and showcased the cluttered rooms; Richards denied she did this
In the legal paperwork, she blamed her ex and his family for being the ones who ‘severely damaged the property and left the house in a state of disarray.’
Richards and Phypers have been married for six years before he filed for divorce in July, citing ‘irreconcilable differences.’
In court on Monday, Denise’s restraining order request hearing was postponed to next month but according to People magazine, a judge gave her access to one of their residences on 13 September in order to ‘retrieve her mother’s and her own personal property, including the dogs’ while her estranged husband was ordered to stay 100 yards away from the home as stated in the temporary restraining order which Richards was granted in July.
The filing also specified Aaron must take no action which would interfere with Ms. Richards access.’
The businessman was also ordered to give Denise back her laptop and old cell phone by the end of September 9, despite his previous denial of the World Is Not Enough star’s claim he had stolen them from her.
Aaron had initially requested the hearing be pushed back but his estranged wife’s legal team argued ‘any further continuance will prejudice Denise and cause further distress to Denise by not allowing her finality to her Request For Domestic Violence Restraining Order.’
Denise recently noted she is going through a ‘very, very, very difficult time’ amid her bitter split from Aaron, which has seen her accuse him of abuse and him allege she was unfaithful.
‘There’s hundreds of dollars worth of vintage clothing in here. It is riddled with moths,’ Phypers claimed during the interview. Richards has said she has not lived there in two years
He also gave Inside Edition an up close and personal look at the squalid state of the carpets and rugs in the rooms, which all appeared to be left in a mess with piles of items mixed with trash
Denise – who has Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, with ex-husband Charlie Sheen and a 14-year-old adopted daughter, Eloise – said on Instagram: ‘I was just checking in to see how your summer’s been going. Mine’s been wonderful. It’s actually been s*****, but I’m going to pretend like it’s all good. I’ve actually been posting on Instagram like nothing is going on in my life, and I can’t do that anymore because there’s something obviously going on.
‘I see all of your messages, I can’t comment because it’ll be taken out and put in the press, but I just wanted to, in all seriousness, say that this has been a very, very, very difficult time. It’s so hard to go through a divorce.
‘Many of you have gone through that. This isn’t my first one – this is my second one. I never thought I’d get divorced again. This is why I always say never say never.
‘I really just wanted to say thank you so much for all of your supportive, kind, thoughtful, encouraging messages because this has been a very difficult time.’
The 54-year-old actress vowed to tell her side of the story ‘one day’.
She said: ‘The circumstances around my divorce that are difficult to talk about — which one day I will talk about it when the timing is right.’
But for now, she wants to ‘process everything and get through this’. She added: ‘It has not been easy, so your messages mean a lot.’
