Terrence Howard’s divorce settlement thrown out by judge

Terrence Howard came out on top Monday – but not unscathed – when a Los Angeles judge tossed out the actor’s 2012 divorce agreement with second wife Michelle Ghent. The Oscar-nominated actor claims he was extorted to sign the agreement, but Ghent’s lawyers deny that claim. Within the span of a couple hours last week, Howard shifted from tearfully recounting threats Ghent made to him to leak private information, including years of phone sex conversations with other women and a video of him dancing naked in a bathroom, to bristling at questions that focused on his arrests.

He married Ghent, a massage therapist, in January 2010, but she filed for divorce a year later.

The ruling means Howard and his second ex-wife, Michelle Ghent, will have to renegotiate the financial aspects of their divorce. Though Judge Lewis is not under the impression that Howard is an innocent victim in all of this, he found Ghent’s actions to be unacceptable. Howard is very relieved that the hearing is over and the ruling was in his favor.

In doing so, nevertheless, Superior Courtroom Decide Thomas Trent Lewis reviewed details that got here to mild within the case, based on Related Press, and declared for the document, “There isn’t any query in my thoughts Terrence Howard is a bully”. Howard spent four days in court during a recent hearing, testifying for portions of three of those days. The show’s second season, set to debut on September 23, is highly anticipated.

While Howard and Ghent’s divorce remains intact, each party’s attorneys will have to hash out new agreement.

The pair’s tumultuous relationship included several reconciliation attempts even after they were officially divorced in 2013.

The actor acknowledged hitting his first wife in 2001, saying he “kicked down the door and smacked her”. He stated it was the “solely time I’ve struck a lady” when it wasn’t self-defense.

Lewis also heard a 2011 call in which Ghent berated Howard and threatened to sell private information about him if he didn’t pay her money by the end of the day. When asked why he did so, especially after being extorted, Howard replied, “I loved her, and I was afraid of her also”.