Court documents show Amie Harwick suffered horrific abuse at the hands of ex-boyfriend Gareth Pursehouse, who was arrested on suspicion of murder and has been released on bail
Photo: Michael Bezjian/WireImage/Getty Images Sex therapist and author Dr. Amie Harwick, 38, died on Saturday after police found her gravely injured outside her Hollywood Hills home. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office released a report declaring the cause of death a homicide; they also said she had fallen from a third-story balcony.
Harwick had filed restraining orders against ex-boyfriend Gareth Pursehouse — twice The L.A. Times reports that Harwick first requested a temporary restraining order against Pursehouse, a software developer and photographer, in 2011, but the order was dismissed when she apparently did not attend a follow-up hearing. Nine months later, Harwick was granted another temporary restraining order, which was extended in April 2012.
Court documents show Harwick accused Pursehouse of choking her, beating her, and breaking into her home The New York Daily News obtained court documents detailing Harwick’s 2011 and 2012 restraining orders, in which she alleged that there were “multiple arguments in which Gareth Pursehouse choked me, suffocated me, pushed me against walls, kicked me, dropped me to the ground with force, force-restrained me, slammed my head into the ground, and punched me with a closed fist.
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