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The bitter divorce battle between Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans has taken an ugly new turn, with the Fantastic Four actor’s estranged wife now facing arrest after she failed to appear in court to answer two counts of violating his order. restraint against her.
Evans, 54, not only did not appear at the Los Angeles Airport Courthouse for an arraignment scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Thursday, neither she nor her attorney called or contacted the court to explain your absence.
Then, with still no word from her two and a half hours later, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner James Cooper issued a referral for an arrest warrant.
DailyMail.com can reveal that Alice Evans is now facing arrest after she failed to appear at Los Angeles airport courthouse for her arraignment on two restraining order violations.
Gruffudd, 49, received a restraining order against his estranged wife (right) last February. He is now dating Bianca Wallace.
Because court commissioners do not have the power to authorize arrest warrants, a referral was sent to a judge to issue one for Evans.
Details of Evans’ alleged rape were not released. He had filed the restraining order in February of last year.
It is not yet known which judge the referral will go to, but once the warrant is signed, Evans may be arrested. However, she can avoid detention by posting bail until the next hearing is scheduled, Cooper told DailyMail.com.
Gruffudd, 49, filed for divorce in March 2021, two months after Evans sensationally claimed on social media that her husband of 14 years was abandoning her and their two daughters, Ella, now 13, and Elsie, of 9.
She continued to criticize her estranged husband online, prompting Gruffudd to seek out a restraining order preventing Evans from sharing his private messages or posting ‘false public allegations’ about him.
Gruffudd’s request for the warrant was granted last February following Evans’ online tirades against him and his new girlfriend Bianca Wallace and he was banned from mentioning it on social media for three years.
In a court filing, Gruffudd also claimed that Evans had been “verbally abusive” and allegedly “undermined” him in front of his two daughters.
In December, the Welsh actor filed for custody and visitation rights to see his children, Elsie, now 9, and Ella, 13. He is pictured with his ex-wife, Alice Evans, and their daughters in 2018 .
The Welsh actor then filed for joint custody of their two daughters last July after Alice filed for sole custody amid their bitter divorce.
In addition to requesting visitation rights, he claimed in the filing that Evans had been deliberately trying to cut off communication between Gruffudd and the girls.
He also requested that the girls attend in-person therapy and reunification therapy via Zoom with him pending court-ordered custody mediation.
Gruffudd in his filing also reiterated allegations that his estranged wife had verbally abused him during their 14-year marriage and undermined him in front of the girls “throughout their lives.”
“Alice made fun of my appearance often, making comments about my hair loss and telling me I had ‘doopy vagina eyes,'” the court documents read.
He went on to state that Evans “has inflicted serious emotional damage on Ella and Elsie by his statements and by interfering with my relationship with them.”
In a video before the former couple’s January 2021 split, which Gruffudd submitted as evidence at the filing, Evans allegedly told Ella that she would “get a new daddy.”
“In a FaceTime I had with the girls on March 3, Ella said that Alice falsely told her that I wanted Alice to kill herself and that Ella probably wouldn’t have a mom anymore,” Gruffudd wrote in the petition.
The divorce has been anything but amicable. Evans has repeatedly taken to social media to discuss the split, and one post (pictured) accused Gruffudd of using money he should have spent on the welfare of his daughters in his legal case.
Last August, the mother-of-two risked violating her restraining order in a post in which she claimed she was being cheated on and called ‘fat’ and ‘awful’ compared to ‘B’, played as the new girlfriend of Joan, Bianca Wallace.
‘She told me, ‘Dad, this is making me so sad’ and ‘if I don’t agree with her, apparently I’m a bad daughter.’ ‘
Alice has since risked violating her restraining order after taking to social media to post about their split.
In an Instagram post last August, he wrote: “I’m working out to try and calm down because I’m being GASLIT.” Damn GASLIT.
‘With my children, with the places I usually go. Everything. I can’t leave the house without being photographed and told I’m fat and hideous while ‘B’ is so skinny…
She signed: ‘…I can’t deal for much longer.’
A source said of the recent restrictions: “Ioan had no choice but to step up his legal fight for Alice.
Ioan is now dating Bianca Wallace. He was married to Alice for 14 years before his messy separation from her; now they are involved in a lengthy court case
Gruffudd played Mr. Fantastic in the 2005 film Fantastic Four. He claims he’s recently had trouble getting a job, so he can’t pay a $745,000 mortgage on the marital home where he hasn’t lived for nearly two years.
“She had become increasingly volatile and seemingly determined to destroy her career with her character assassination. She hopes this will put an end to it.
Later, in court documents, Ioan claimed that since the restraining order was entered, Alice “has used her social media accounts to continue to harass, threaten, and disturb the peace of both myself and my girlfriend, Bianca Wallace.”
It demanded that Alice not make any posts on any social media accounts, “including but not limited to Instagram and Twitter accounts, disparaging or harassing.” [Ioan] or the other protected person’ (Wallace).
In addition, he asked Alice not to post her text messages or any other communication with the parties’ children, or the children’s text messages or any other communication with Gruffudd, on any social media account.
He also asked that Alice be ordered not to contact his employers or make derogatory statements about him to his employers.
Meanwhile, it appears the exes have managed to reach an agreement to put their $2 million Los Angeles marital home on the market after Ioan pleaded with a court to enforce the sale before it’s foreclosed (pictured)
Meanwhile, it appears the exes have managed to reach an agreement to put their $2 million Los Angeles marital home on the market after Ioan pleaded with a court to enforce the sale before it’s foreclosed on.
According to court documents obtained Thursday by radaronline.comthe former couple will post the house that Alice currently lives in with her children.
After escrow closes, both will receive $110k and the remaining money will be retained.