Paulina Ben-Cohen additionally alleges Mike held a gun to her head in a 2021 dispute.
Actuality TV alum Mike Shouhed of Bravo’s Shahs of Sundown thought he walked away from the 14 legal costs lodged in opposition to him in 2022 unscathed. After being accused of assaulting his now ex-fiancé, Paulina Ben-Cohen, whereas dwelling in her Los Angeles house on the time, he obtained a slap-on-the-wrist punishment, which included anger administration, parenting, and gun security programs, per TMZ,
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Nonetheless, it appears as if Mike’s reign of innocence could also be lower quick.
On March 22, 2024, Paulina filed a civil lawsuit in opposition to Mike within the County of Los Angeles, delving deep (very deep) into the alleged string of occasions that occurred the evening Mike was arrested. In court docket paperwork obtained by Distractify, Paulina lists fairly just a few alarming threats Mike allegedly made, one among which incorporates point out of a hitman. Listed here are the small print.
Paulina Ben-Cohen alleges Mike Shouhed threatened to “put her away” with the assistance of his hitman.
On the night of March 27, 2022, Paulina alleges in her lawsuit that after placing her children to mattress and organising her hookah, Mike spent a number of minutes berating her from one other room in the home. Finally, Paulina instructed that he go away. She then proceeded to go to the bed room the place he saved his garments and footwear, and commenced packing up a few of his issues. That’s when issues received heated.
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In a number of of the images Paulina’s authorized crew — Carpenter & Zuckerman — hooked up to the lawsuit (which seem like from house cameras), Mike can allegedly be seen getting bodily together with her. At one level, he seems to throw her to the bottom, inflicting a clothes rack stationed with clothes to fall on prime of her.
The lawsuit states that Mike then “bent over her, struck her within the face, after which put his hand over her face and tried to suffocate her as she writhed on the bottom and struggled to breathe.” Paulina claims that after she managed to get to her ft, she left the room and that’s when Mike “threatened to kill [Paulina] and advised her he had a hitman who would put her away.”
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Images additionally reveal that the dispute finally moved to the youngsters’ playroom, the place Mike allegedly continued to put his arms on Paulina. At one level, the lawsuit states Mike “[suffocated Paulina] with each of his arms for 2 seconds.”
Paulina says Mike then grabbed her proper wrist and continued to maintain his proper hand over her mouth, “[suffocating] her for one more six seconds.”
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The tussling continued for a number of extra minutes till Paulina’s nanny, who had been staying on the alternative aspect of the home, heard her plea for assist and got here. The lawsuit claims the nanny requested Mike to go away, although he “went upstairs to retrieve one among his firearms.” The police had been then known as, and after arriving on the residence, Mike was arrested.
Paulina additionally alleges Mike Shouhed pulled a gun on her in 2021.
Primarily based on the court docket paperwork, Mike could have a historical past of creating violent threats towards Paulina. She claims in her civil lawsuit that in 2021, whereas taping a scene for Shahs of Sundown, Mike threatened to kill Paulina after she “uncovered images of very disturbing textual content messages he had despatched to a different lady,” the lawsuit notes.
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This apparently all performed out at one other solid member’s house. Moreover, Paulina alleges Mike blamed her for “destroying his fame” and threatened to “smash her life” for doing so.
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After arriving house from stated taping, the arguing worsened, with Mike allegedly “[putting] a gun as much as her head and [telling] her he was going to homicide her whereas making statements like ‘you assume you may destroy my fame, not even my ex-wife ruined my fame the best way you probably did.'” On one other event, Mike allegedly advised Paulina, “Tonight is the evening I’m going to kill you,” after the 2 attended a dinner occasion at a Shahs of Sundown solid member’s house.
Paulina is now looking for unspecified damages and punitive damages.
Paulina is now looking for damages, in an quantity to be decided in court docket, for the “severe bodily and emotional accidents” Mike allegedly triggered her to undergo.
John C. Carpenter, an lawyer representing Paulina, completely advised Distractify, “This sort of habits can’t be tolerated.”
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How lengthy had been Mike Shouhed and Paulina Ben-Cohen collectively?
Mike and Paulina went public with their relationship throughout Season 8 of Shahs of Sundown, which premiered in February 2020. By 2021, they had been engaged. It’s unclear when the couple known as it quits, although we’re guessing it was someday after the March 2022 incident.
Primarily based on a fast scroll by way of Paulina’s Instagram web page, it’s clear she is making an attempt to maneuver on.