Posted on 03/09/2006 1:10:40 PM PST by ChandyB71
LOS ANGELES — Less than a month after filing for divorce, the estranged wife of David Hasselhoff is alleging that the former Baywatch star abused her, court records showed.
Actress Pamela Bach, 42, filed a domestic violence order Monday against Hasselhoff, 53, in Los Angeles Superior Court, summary records on the court's website show.
At a private hearing, Bach also asked for a temporary restraining order against the actor but a judge denied the request, instead instructing the two to stay away from each other.
"The court indicated that she should stay where she is and he should stay where he is,'' Hasselhoff's lawyer, Melvin Goldsman said by phone Wednesday, declining comment on the allegations.
Documents pertaining to the hearing have been sealed by the court to protect the pair's two teenaged daughters and their privacy, Goldsman said.
Bach was granted custody of one daughter, while Hasselhoff was given custody of the other, publicist Judy Katz said Wednesday.
Hasselhoff filed for divorce Jan. 12 citing irreconcilable differences after 16 years of marriage. Bach filed her own divorce papers a day later, also citing irreconcilable differences.
Messages left Wednesday at the office of Bach's lawyer were not immediately returned.
Hasselhoff played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch from 1989 to 2000. He also starred in the 1980s TV series Knight Rider, in which his character, Michael Knight, teamed with a talking Pontiac Trans Am sports car to fight crime.
Bach appeared in the soap opera The Young and The Restless and in numerous episodes of Baywatch and Knight Rider.
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