Strictly star Artem Chigvintsev says he lost £77k in income after domestic violence arrest

Former Strictly Come Dancing prima Artem Chigvintsev was arrested for home unit successful August but the pursuing period it was announced that helium wouldn't look charges

Former Strictly Come Dancing prima Artem Chigvintsev has reportedly said that he's mislaid implicit $100,000 - astir £77,000 - successful income aft being arrested for home violence.

Artem, 42 - who appeared connected the BBC amusement from 2010 to 2013, earlier moving implicit to the US mentation Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) - has been progressive successful a home unit quality with his estranged woman Nikki Garcia, 40 - known professionally arsenic Nikki Bella. Artem was arrested connected suspicion of home violence successful August but the pursuing period it was reported that helium would not beryllium facing charges.

TMZ reports that, according to caller tribunal documents it has obtained, Artem says helium was inactive a moving dancer contempt claims to the contrary pursuing his departure from DWTS aft past year's series. Similarly, ineligible documents obtained by the Daily Mail, reportedly filed October 31 successful Napa Superior Court, are said to read: "It is not existent that I person not been capable to find different enactment arsenic a dancer. I usually commencement jobs successful November and it goes for 20 weekends.

"After the mug changeable and the apprehension based connected her mendacious allegations, I was taken disconnected the website module database resulting successful nonaccomplishment of implicit $100k successful income. I besides mislaid the societal media promotion revenue, which she continues to payment from arsenic she was much disquieted astir her vocation erstwhile she lied to the police, than mine."

The outlet adds that Artem claims successful the documents that Nikki is "the 1 with the temper" and maintained that helium was "not violent" with her connected August 29, the day of the alleged dispute. He reportedly said: "She is the 1 with the temper. I effort to enactment quiescent and debar it. She yells, and connected 8/29/24 was yelling, pursuing me, and was the 1 who attacked me. It is further a prevarication that I was increasing progressively angry, snapping astatine her, and yelling. I was not convulsive with her and did not violently drawback oregon outcry astatine her." Artem, who has a four-year-old lad with his wife, had antecedently claimed that Nikki was "the aggressor".

Artem was arrested connected suspicion of home unit successful August but the pursuing period it was reported that helium would not beryllium facing home unit charges, with Napa County District Attorney (DA) Allison Haley saying it was aft a "thorough reappraisal of the transgression probe and cautious valuation of the evidence". As antecedently reported, the DA added: "We person an ethical work to lone record charges erstwhile supported by the evidence. We are required to beryllium immoderate and each transgression complaint 'beyond a tenable doubt', which is the highest modular successful the American transgression justness system."

The apprehension connected August 29 was implicit the erstwhile couple's alleged dispute. In a filing, Nikki claimed her hubby had "tackled maine aggregate times and pinned maine to the crushed portion our kid was present". She claimed helium had go "increasingly angry, snapping astatine maine and yelling" aft helium wasn't asked to instrumentality to DWTS. As antecedently reported, Nikki claimed successful tribunal filings that she had thrown a footwear astatine Artem, which she said "contacted" his leg, during an statement but claimed that they "weigh hardly thing and could not person wounded him". She acknowledged it wasn't "right" and said that she was "so overwhelmed with everything that had happened that greeting that I had a momentary lapse successful judgement."

In September, it was reported that Nikki had filed a dissolution of marriage and astir 2 weeks aboriginal followed up with a petition for a home unit restraining order. As antecedently reported, she was granted a impermanent restraining bid and past month, Artem is said to person requested a restraining bid too, which helium was besides granted arsenic a impermanent measure.

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