Artem Chigvintsev was noticed within the viewers throughout the five hundredth episode of Dancing With the Stars amid his current authorized and marital troubles.
The previous DWTS professional, 42, appeared in a video shared by fellow former professional, Peta Murgatroyd, by way of Instagram Tales on Tuesday, November 12. Murgatroyd filmed herself, Chigvintsev and one other DWTS alum, her husband, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, dancing within the crowd throughout Tuesday’s stay broadcast.
Chigvintsev’s return to the ballroom comes after he was left off the DWTS season 33 roster and after his August 29 home violence arrest following an alleged altercation with now-estranged spouse Nikki Garcia. He was launched on bail the identical day, and a decide declined to cost the Russian dance professional in September.
For the reason that arrest, Chigvintsev and Garcia, 40, have every filed for divorce. (The previous wrestler is searching for full custody of their 4-year-old son, Matteo, whereas Chigvintsev requested joint custody.)
In a current court docket submitting obtained by the Day by day Mail, Chigvintsev claimed he misplaced $100,000 in potential revenue since his arrest and requested a Napa County court docket to order Garcia to cowl his misplaced earnings, lease and a portion of his authorized charges.
“It isn’t true that I’ve not been capable of finding different work as a dancer. I usually begin jobs in November and it goes for 20 weekends,” he stated within the court docket paperwork filed October 31, per the Mail. “After the mugshot and the arrest primarily based on her false allegations, I used to be taken off the web site college listing leading to lack of over $100K in revenue.”
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“I additionally misplaced the social media promotion income, which she continues to learn from as she was extra apprehensive about her profession when she lied to the police than mine,” Chigvintsev claimed within the docs, asserting that Garcia is the one with “anger points.”
He added, “She is the one with the mood. I attempt to keep quiet and keep away from it. She yells, and [in August] was yelling, pursuing me, and was the one who attacked me. It’s additional a lie that I used to be rising more and more offended, snapping at her, and yelling. I used to be not violent together with her and didn’t violently seize or yell at her.”
Garcia didn’t publicly reply to Chigvintsev’s newest claims, information of which broke on November 6. She was beforehand granted a restraining order towards her estranged husband in September after claiming he as soon as “violently grabbed” her waist throughout an altercation.
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“As a result of incident that led to Artem’s arrest on August 29, 2024, Nikki has determined to file for a short lived Home Violence Restraining Order to guard herself and her son,” a rep for Garcia informed Us Weekly on the time. “Though Nikki requested that the Napa District Lawyer not file costs towards Artem as she didn’t need him to go to jail, he should nonetheless be held accountable for his actions, and Nikki and her son have to be protected.”
The spokesperson added, “Nikki’s primary precedence has all the time been the wellbeing of her son. She is grateful for the entire love and help she has acquired and continues to ask for privateness for her and her household throughout this tough time.”