Denise Richards’ husband Aaron Phypers has filed for divorce after six years of marriage.
Aaron filed the paperwork on Monday in Los Angeles, DailyMail.com has learned after seeing court documents.
He noted that the date of separation from the 54-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills veteran was July 4.
The cause for the split was marked ‘irreconcilable differences’ and Aaron is seeking spousal support from Denise.
The two are starring together on their family reality TV show Denise Richards & Her Wild Things with her daughters Sami, 21, Lola, 19, and Eloise, 13.
On the 4th of July Denise posted a sexy swimsuit image on the beach.
The last time she shared an image with Aaron on Instagram was in April. The last time they were on a red carpet together was in May.
The two wed in September 2018 in Malibu.
The wedding ceremony was filmed for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Guests at the wedding included Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell as well as fellow Housewives stars Lisa Vanderpump and Camille Grammer.
She wore a strapless Mark Zunino wedding dress embroidered with flowers as she held a bouquet with white and pink peonies. The bride walked down the aisle to Metallica’s Unforgiven. Phypers dressed in dark jeans and a white button-down shirt.
They stood in front of a backdrop composed of pink and hot pink roses.
Phypers and the actress started dating in 2017, and got engaged in January 2018.
The two suffered relationship drama in 2020 when Denise was romantically linked to Brandi Glanville, a fellow cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Glanville claimed the affair took place, even alleging that Phypers was aware and accepting of the situation, but Richards consistently refuted these claims.
Earlier this year Denise opened up about her relationship with ex-husband Charlie Sheen.
The actress was on the Whine Down with Jenna Kramer podcast when shared the two former spouses do not communicate much.
The ex-couple, who were married from 2002 to 2006, had their own ideas about how to bring up their girls.
‘Truthfully, it wasn’t co-parenting,’ the actress explained to the One Tree Hill alum. ‘I parent my way. He parents his way, and there was no co-parenting.’
Struggling to describe the dynamic with the Two and a Half Men star, 59, she said, ‘I have kids with him, and I’m not really — I’m friendly with Charlie, but I wish we were friends,’ she said.
The Paper Empire star revealed she also wished ‘that we could talk all the time and be able to be there really for each other with our girls. But that’s just not the relationship we have.’
‘Maybe one day. But, I mean right now, there’s nothing. There’s no discord between he and I, which is great.’
‘I was always an advocate of wanting everything to be great and be friends and blend the family because he had two boys with his wife after me,’ The Bold and The Beautiful star maintained, adding, ‘I just didn’t want the girls to feel like they had to choose sides.’
When the girls were little, Richards said she put up a good front for her children, in spite of their father’s struggle with drugs and the law, including charges of domestic assault. ‘I never talked bad about him in front of the kids, and that’s hard to do — to hold your tongue and not say certain things at times,’ the World Is Not Enough actress said.
‘I don’t know if I did a disservice to them with that as well because now that they’re older, they’re discovering things that they didn’t know.’
The Bookie actor revealed in 2015 that he had been diagnosed with HIV several years before, but thanks to retroviral drugs, the virus is undetectable.
The Mad Families star has been sober since 2017, revealing that being too drunk to drive one of his daughters to an appointment was the final straw for him.
Sheen credits that decision with making him a better father to all of his children.
‘I have a very consistent lifestyle now. It’s all about single dad stuff, and raising my… twin boys Max and Bob,’ he said of the now 16-year-olds he shares with ex Brooke Mueller to People in December 2023.
Richards and Sheen have mended their fences enough for Sheen to appear on the latest episode of her reality show, which debuted on Bravo.
The exes are seen getting together for a dinner with their daughters, and Sheen gives advice to Lola about how to deal with fame.
‘Don’t read anything,’ the Emmy nominee advised. ‘Don’t read anything about it. Because if you don’t read it, it doesn’t exist.’
