Embattled Hollywood agent had wife falsely arrested, new court filing says

The as soon as high-flying Hollywood agent Adam Venit allegedly admitted to having his spouse Trina arrested underneath false pretenses, in accordance with a court docket submitting Thursday in Los Angeles federal court docket.

The submitting features a January 2019 letter to his estranged spouse Trina during which Venit explains the circumstances that led to her arrest and apologizes for his conduct.

“We have been arguing and it was heated, however I STUPIDLY concerned our children and made the error of working scared and doing the UNTHINKABLE of getting you arrested,” the letter mentioned. “One of many two best failures and regrets in my life. I AM SO SORRY.”

A consultant for Adam Venit couldn’t be reached for remark.

The letter was included in a movement filed this week by attorneys for Trina Venit in U.S. Central District Court docket in Los Angeles. She sued the previous WME companion in June, accusing him of sexual assault, battery and false imprisonment over a interval of a number of years.

Venit alleged that in a 2019 altercation her husband chased her round their dwelling in an try to search out her cellphone and threatened to report her for home violence, throwing himself down “within the hopes of producing an damage to help his concocted abuse declare,” in accordance with her lawsuit. Police arrested Trina Venit for home violence and launched her the next morning, she mentioned.

Earlier this month, Adam Venit requested the federal court docket to dismiss her grievance, arguing the matter needs to be resolved in household court docket. He mentioned in a submitting that Trina Venit’s allegations of home violence have been “completely fabricated” and that she is trying to “misuse this federal discussion board as a part of her ongoing quest to acquire greater than half of the events’ marital property.”

However on Thursday Trina Venit filed an opposition to that movement to dismiss her case, together with the letter allegedly written by Venit during which he describes psychological points that led as much as their dispute and her arrest.

“Within the letter, Defendant admits that he referred to as the police on Plaintiff — conspicuously not due to any precise or threatened violence by her towards him — however reasonably attributable to amongst different issues Defendant’s ‘confused psychology’; ‘stress and [Plaintiff’s] threats to write down a e-book [and] name [Defendant] homosexual,’” Trina Venit said in her grievance. “This letter constitutes a transparent admission that Defendant’s model of occasions was fabricated from the start.”

Venit, whose purchasers included stars like Adam Sandler, caught public consideration in 2018 when he stepped down from WME following allegations by Terry Crews that Venit groped him at a celebration in West Hollywood in 2016. The lawsuit was settled and Venit apologized to Crews for the incident.

In March 2021, Adam Venit filed for divorce after 22 years of marriage. Trina obtained a short lived home violence restraining order towards her estranged husband, with proof of a number of situations of abuse. The Los Angeles Police Division “confiscated a minimum of eight firearms and voluminous ammunition belonging to Adam from the household’s former residence on April 17, 2021,” she mentioned alleged in her lawsuit.

Two months later, Venit filed his personal home violence restraining order towards Trina, from Hawaii, the place he presently resides, in accordance with her grievance.

Each restraining orders have been subsequently dropped.