Denise Richards returned to the Calabasas, California, rental she shared with estranged husband Aaron Phypers over the weekend to remove furniture, personal belongings and 15 dogs, according to photographs and reporting by Page Six.
Photos show Richards arriving with two moving trucks and four movers, speaking with the crew as they loaded items. A court hearing on Sept. 8 granted her the right to retrieve her possessions without violating an existing restraining order, court records and reporting indicate.
Richards, 54, was photographed in casual clothing and a baseball cap as movers placed furniture and crates into the trucks. Her father, Irv Richards, accompanied her and helped transfer the animals into crates for transport. Page Six reported that movers wore face masks while working because of dust and a strong odor inside the home.
The visit comes after a highly publicized and acrimonious separation. Aaron Phypers, 52, who filed for divorce in July, has publicly shown the property to media outlets and described it as a hoarding situation, pointing to stained rugs, moth-eaten clothing and other signs of disarray. Richards has maintained in court documents that she had not lived in the home for two years and has accused Phypers and members of his family of severely damaging the property.
The couple married in 2018. Since Phypers filed for divorce, the pair have exchanged serious allegations. Richards has accused Phypers of frequent and aggressive abuse. Phypers has denied those claims and has said he euthanized one of the couple’s dogs, Melanie, asserting Richards “hasn’t interacted with the animals in two years.” He has also leveled additional accusations against Richards, including allegations of infidelity and substance use.
Richards’s lawyer told People that she will not respond to Phypers’s public allegations and that she intends to address his alleged abuse in court. Representatives for Richards and Phypers did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Phypers has given televised tours of the property to reporters and said he lives on the lower level with his parents and brother. Phypers’s mother told reporters she had once considered Richards like a daughter and expressed confusion over the breakdown of the marriage. Legal proceedings, including the divorce and the separate court matters that produced the restraining order and the retrieval permission, remain ongoing.
No further statements were available from either party at the time of publication. The retrieval of belongings and animals does not resolve the outstanding legal issues between Richards and Phypers, which continue to be litigated in court.