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Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers Ordered to Vacate Los Angeles Home Amid Ongoing Divorce
Denise Richards and estranged husband Aaron Phypers have officially been ordered to leave the Los Angeles home they once shared.
According to court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, a judge granted landlord John Karan repossession of the Calabasas property on Friday, December 26, after alleging the pair stopped paying rent in February. The six-bedroom home — first leased to the couple in 2020 — has been at the center of mounting legal tension as their divorce and related disputes unfold.
In Karan’s initial complaint, his attorney Phoenix Thottam claimed Richards, 54, and Phypers, 53, received a three-day notice on August 29 demanding payment or vacating the property. The notice outlined seven months of overdue rent totaling $84,000, based on their lease agreement of $400 per day, or $12,000 per month. The rental allegedly housed the couple, their daughter Eloise, and Richards’ older daughters Sami and Lola, whom she shares with ex-husband Charlie Sheen. When neither Richards nor Phypers filed a timely response to the suit, the court ruled in Karan’s favor by default, though the couple has not been ordered to pay the unpaid balance. Thottam characterized the ruling as a routine eviction that confirms Karan’s right to regain possession of the home.
The Calabasas property has also become a point of contention within Richards and Phypers’ divorce proceedings. In August, Richards asked the court to force Phypers and his family to move out, claiming she had left the home two years earlier under the belief that his relatives would be staying there only briefly. Richards alleged the property was left “in a state of disarray,” stating in filings obtained by PEOPLE that Phypers, his parents, and his brother had caused significant damage — allegations she supported with photos submitted to the court.
Tensions continued in September when Richards was granted temporary access to collect personal items, including her dogs, while Phypers was ordered to stay 100 yards away under an earlier restraining order issued in July.
The former couple, who married in 2018, are in the midst of a divorce after Phypers filed on July 7 citing irreconcilable differences. Days later, Richards accused him of domestic violence, alleging repeated abuse during their marriage — claims Phypers denies as “completely false and deeply hurtful.” In November, Richards was granted a five-year restraining order set to last through 2030.
With the court-ordered move-out now finalized and multiple legal disputes still underway, Richards and Phypers’ split continues to intensify — and the battle over their former shared home appears far from the final chapter.
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