Brittney Palmer files lawsuit against her husband for assault and battery

On Wednesday, UFC Octagon girl Brittney Palmer filed a lawsuit with the Los Angeles County Courts against her husband, Aaron Zalewski, claiming she was assaulted and battered by him on June 11, 2015.

Accorded to police reports concerning this incident, Zalewski was arrested on June 11 and charged with attempted murder, spousal battery, and criminal threats before being released on a $1 million dollar bail. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office declined to file felony charges against him though, instead forwarding it to the city attorney’s who, according to TMZ, was likely to only sentence him to anger management as long he admitted culpability and showed contrition.

The lawsuit was filed by her attorney Christopher Darden of the OJ Simpson trial fame. The complaint is a very difficult read due to the amount of violence and cruel behavior it alleges. According to the complaint, in the weeks leading up to that incident the “defendant became increasingly aggressive and threatening, frequently berating [Palmer].” His ire was apparently directed towards her working in the entertainment and television industry, which he demanded that she quit or he would divorce her. According to her his anger grew over the days, perhaps assisted by the consumption of “a great deal of illicit narcotics by smoking OxyContin.”

According to Palmer’s account in the complaint, Zaleweki’s abusive behavior progressed to physical violence on the night of June 11. He again demanded that she quit the industry, mentioning that he would divorce her if she did not. When she refused he demanded she sign a documents relative to a divorce, or remove and return her wedding ring and leave “his house.” Her hesitation to agree to a divorce seems linked to a prenuptial agreement which she claims he hounded her into signing before their marriage over her own objections through repeated verbal and emotional abuse. This was even witnessed by Zalewski’s attorney’s legal office, who repeatedly told their client to “calm down and cease and desist from berating his wife.”

According to Palmer, as the defendant grew more upset that evening of June 11, she tried recording it with her cell phone, but Zaweski took the phone away from her and deleted it. He then refused to return it and threw her to the ground when she tried to retrieve it from him. He then told her to pack her belongings, calling her a “fucking cunt” and “a piece of shit” as she did so.

Palmer claims that as Zalewski continued to threaten violence Palmer tried to dial 911 but was slammed on the floor before being picked up and slammed repeatedly on to the bed.

According to the complaint the situation escalated:

“at one point the defendant held plaintiff against her will by placing his knee in her back and holding her face into the bed by pushing against the back of her head. Plaintiff, grasping for air, nearly lost consciousness. Plaintiff, gasping for breath in an apparent asthma related attack cause by the defendant and plaintiff’s asthmatic condition that defendant was well aware of, she motioned and gestured for her inhaler which defendant threw at her head …

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