Aaron Phypers

Introduction

Aaron Phypers is a California businessman and the former owner of the Quantum360 wellness center, known to the public as the estranged husband of actress Denise Richards, whom he married in September 2018. On September 17, 2026, Page Six reported that a Los Angeles judge had ordered Phypers to pay Richards more than $25,000 in court sanctions across two penalties, capping a year of escalation that has included a five-year permanent restraining order against him and felony charges filed in late 2025. Phypers, who filed for divorce from Richards in July 2025, has denied every abuse allegation Richards has made and has countered with claims of his own.

Background Information

Phypers ran Quantum360, a wellness business, and was described in Page Six’s coverage as the company’s former owner. He married Richards, the “Wild Things” star and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, in September 2018; the couple share no children together. Phypers filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on July 7, 2025, citing irreconcilable differences, after nearly seven years of marriage. Richards adopted her daughter Eloise as a single mother in 2011. Phypers has claimed that he raised Eloise “as his own” but that adoption papers he had signed were never filed, leaving him without legal parental rights.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations. The abuse claims in this section are allegations from Denise Richards’ court filings and trial testimony in the couple’s restraining-order and divorce proceedings, as reported by NBC News, Page Six and Us Weekly. They were never admitted by Phypers, and none of the conduct they describe has been adjudicated in court; the felony charges lodged against him in November 2025 are pending, and he is presumed innocent of them. Phypers denies all of the abuse claims, says Richards’ injuries came from falls and that she “bruises easily,” and has told Us Weekly that “any suggestion of abuse is categorically untrue.”

Days after Phypers filed for divorce, Richards filed a domestic violence restraining order request in California Superior Court on July 16, 2025, and it was granted the same day. In her request, she wrote that Phypers had “repeatedly abused me during the marriage” and “threatened to kill me and himself and the police,” and she showed the court photos of a black eye she said she endured. She described a July 4, 2025 incident in which she said Phypers became “enraged” when told his family had to move out of the family home, and screamed degrading profanities at her.

At the restraining-order trial, which began October 6, 2025 and ran multiple days, both testified. Richards claimed Phypers gave her “at least three concussions” and once “slammed [her] up against the concrete wall and [her] head hit it” in an incident she placed between March and May 2022. Phypers’ cousin, Kathleen McAllister, testified, “I saw Aaron hit Denise and immediately she had a really bad black eye.” Phypers testified he had no recollection of a black eye, acknowledged Richards’ eye looked “bruised” around January 17, 2022, and said she would otherwise bruise herself “while cooking… falling down.” He suggested his ex “bruises easily,” claimed she fell into a pole, disputed his cousin’s account, and accused Richards of breaking his phone during a fight; he also previously accused Richards of abusing painkillers and alcohol, which she denied. “These accusations are completely false and deeply hurtful,” Phypers told Us Weekly, adding that “any suggestion of abuse is categorically untrue.”

On November 7, 2025, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted Richards a permanent restraining order requiring Phypers to stay 100 yards away from her and her workplace and barring all contact until November 7, 2030; outside the courthouse Phypers told Entertainment Tonight he “wished it was the other way.” During the trial proceedings, he was arrested for spousal abuse while in court and charged with two felony counts of injuring a spouse and two felony counts of dissuading a witness by force or threat.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The back-and-forth cut both ways in court. In February 2026, Richards was ordered to pay Phypers $5,000 a month in temporary spousal support plus $30,000 toward his legal fees, and in April 2026 she won a ruling that her wages and other assets could not be seized to satisfy his debts. Phypers, meanwhile, claimed his financial situation had grown so dire that he was evicted and reportedly faced losing his car. On September 16, 2026, at Los Angeles’ Stanley Mosk Courthouse, the court found Phypers had failed to properly respond to written questions from Richards’ legal team and sanctioned him for it, then hit him with an additional $14,775 sanction in a separate matter during the same hearing — bringing the total he was ordered to pay Richards to $25,762, due on a 10-day deadline for the second penalty. The one-page filing did not specify why the additional sanction was imposed. Richards had also filed a protective-order request on June 26, 2026, and the parties reached a stipulation on it in open court, the terms of which were not disclosed.

Current Status

As of September 17, 2026, Phypers owes Richards a combined $25,762 in sanctions, with the latest $14,775 penalty due within 10 days, and the couple’s unresolved discovery motions were continued to December 2, 2026, with the judge ordering them to meet and confer first. The permanent restraining order remains in effect until November 7, 2030. The four felony charges referenced in Page Six’s November 2025 report remain pending; he has not been tried on them and is presumed innocent. Representatives for both did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The collapse of the marriage has left Phypers monetarily dependent on the person he is fighting in court: he receives temporary spousal support from Richards while simultaneously owing her $25,762 in sanctions, has claimed an eviction and a threatened car repossession. His claim that he raised Richards’ daughter Eloise “as his own” went nowhere legally, since the adoption papers he says he signed were never filed and he holds no parental rights. The restraining order bars him from contacting Richards through 2030, and the pending felony charges keep the criminal dimension of the case open alongside the divorce. Phypers has maintained throughout that Richards’ accusations are false and that her injuries were accidental.