NP--All the Pretty Horses: Item!

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Fri Jan 8 13:55:29 CST 1999


<<Retarded wife beater, or just the garden-variety domestic perp?>>

Here're the (alleged) facts.  You classify.

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The estranged wife of Academy Award-winner Billy 
Bob Thornton has received a restraining order against her husband, 
saying she endured years of physical and emotional abuse and now fears 
for her life. 

Pietra Thornton filed the request Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, 
three days after she petitioned for divorce from the 
actor-writer-director. The couple married four years ago. 

"The abuse, particularly the physical abuse, has become more severe over 
the past 12 months," Pietra Thornton wrote in her petition. 

"I am terrified that my filing this proceeding has jeopardized my life 
and that (he) will now follow through on his threats to kill me. I need 
protection," she said. 

She detailed an incident in which Thornton allegedly pushed his 
then-pregnant wife onto a coffee table. She also accused him of 
punching, pushing, hitting and biting her. 




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