Comic Chris D’Elia hit with restraining order by woman he says he never met

Embattled comic Chris D’Elia has been hit with a brief restraining order by a girl accusing him of threatening to launch intimate, grownup movies of her and making dying threats in opposition to her.

The order, granted Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, was primarily based on illegal violence, a reputable risk of violence, or stalking, in line with courtroom paperwork obtained Thursday by the Los Angeles Occasions.

D’Elia, 42, whose profession imploded in 2020 when a number of girls accused him of sexual improprieties, has been barred from contacting 34-year-old Caroline Schmitz of Los Angeles, in addition to threatening to contact her — both immediately or not directly — harassing, intimidating or attacking her, and has been ordered to remain 100 yards away from Schmitz, her residence, work and car.

However the comic’s lawyer Andrew Brettler insists that D’Elia by no means met Schmitz and that her allegations are defamatory.

“These accusations are as fantastical as they’re defamatory,” Brettler mentioned in an announcement to The Occasions on Friday. “Chris has by no means met this individual. However during the last yr, she has despatched him more and more disturbing textual content and audio messages, together with making threats in opposition to him and his household. If anybody goes to get a restraining order right here, it’s going to be Chris.”

TMZ reported Thursday that Schmitz allegedly despatched the humorist threatening audio and textual content messages earlier this yr, re-posting a number of the messages D’Elia mentioned she despatched him via Instagram.

In response to the civil harassment restraining order request, Schmitz alleged that she and the “You” and “The Good Physician” actor initially met in 2017 after he considered a few of her comedy content material on-line and tracked her down on the membership the place she labored. She mentioned they started a sexual relationship over the course of a number of months.

Schmitz mentioned that in Could 2022 he once more reached out to her by way of OnlyFans, a subscription-based on-line platform that allows creation and sale of grownup content material, threatening “to publish intimate movies that I had created for him on the platform,” in addition to screenshots of their messages on OnlyFans, if she didn’t go away Los Angeles.

Schmitz believed the messages to be from D’Elia as a result of she “acknowledged his type of writing” and was “spooked” by feedback he made that led her to believed he was monitoring her and her on-line exercise. She additionally mentioned that she believed D’Elia hacked her cellphone, or ordered another person to take action.

“I’m terrified of [D’Elia]. I’m scared [D’Elia] will proceed doing issues to exert sexual management over me. I’m terrified that [D’Elia] will launch the movies and trigger me additional hurt,” she wrote within the order request.

D’Elia has been ordered to delete or destroy any intimate or non-public photographs, movies or audio recordings of Schmitz “whether or not real or artificially created,” and has been barred from sharing them, the order mentioned.

He’s additionally been barred from accessing Schmitz’s digital units or on-line accounts, “together with however not restricted to e mail accounts, social media accounts, apps or their accounts, data of any communications, good telephones, computer systems, tablets, or every other gadget or account requiring a password.” The order consists of units and accounts that Schmitz had beforehand approved D’Elia to entry or to which he is aware of or knew the password.

The non permanent order will stay in impact till Oct. 19, when a listening to has been scheduled in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom.