CNN: Actress Granted Restraining Order Against Avenatti

‘She makes a number of allegations against Michael Avenatti’

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LEE: "Well as you know, last week Michael Avenatti was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of domestic violence, but we really didn’t know the full details of what had happened. Well now we know that the woman who was involved in the alleged altercation, her name is Mareli Miniutti. She is an aspiring actress who says she dated Avenatti for about a year, that they've been living together for a better part of this year. And we are now learning that she was actually granted a restraining order against Michael Avenatti. Now, in her request for this restraining order she makes a number of allegations against Michael Avenatti. Let me just walk-through a couple of them. She says that Michael Avenatti in  the course of their altercation last week called her an ungrateful f***ing B word, that he got quote, 'very close to me in threatening manner that made me afraid.' Forcefully hit her in the face with pillows and dragged her on the apartment floor. Now she has said that it was after this altercation when she went back the next day to retrieve some of her belongings from the apartment that Michael was arrested. Now, Avenatti obviously is very vehemently denying all of this. He says that he has never struck a woman. Now, I just want to read a statement that we got from Avenatti's lawyers yesterday. The statement says, 'Ms. Miniutti and Mr. Avenatti had an argument while in Mr. Avenatti’s apartment during which Ms. Miniutti behaved in a volatile, agitated and irrational manner. However, Mr. Avenatti did not inflict any corporal injury or cause any traumatic condition upon Ms. Miniutti.' Now, the lawyers also say that there are witnesses and surveillance videos from the building that would show that Avenatti is telling the truth. Just a final twist to all of this, I did speak with Mareli Miniutti's husband yesterday, because she is still married and he says that she is a very calm, well-mannered and respectful individual, and a classy woman, and a man should never raise a hand against a woman.”

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