Christian Dumontet, estranged husband of Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn, was formally charged following a domestic incident in March 2024 that allegedly injured the couple’s young son.
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office told PEOPLE that the tech director was charged with three misdemeanors: child abuse/endangerment, assault and violation of a protection order.
PEOPLE reached out to representatives for Dumontet (who also goes by Christian Richard), but did not immediately hear back.
Christine Quinn with her husband Christian Richard, March 2022.
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Dumontet i Selling Sunset The alum, 35, married in 2019. They welcomed son Christian George Dumontet in 2021. Dumontet filed for divorce in April 2024.
Dumontet’s charges stem from two incidents in March at their family home in Los Angeles, in which he was arrested both times.
On March 19, he was arrested in connection with a domestic violence incident involving their son.
Christine Quinn’s husband has filed for divorce after he was arrested twice following an alleged domestic violence incident
“The victim and the suspect were involved in a domestic dispute,” a public information officer told PEOPLE about the incident. “The suspect threw a bag containing a glass bottle at the victim, missed the victim, but the object hit the victim’s child and injured him,”
Dumontet was charged with assault with a “deadly weapon” after the toddler was treated by EMS, according to a police statement.
The next day, March 20, he was arrested again after allegedly violating an emergency protective order, the LAPD confirmed to PEOPLE at the time.
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Christine Quinn and Christian Richard.
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Since then, Dumontet and Quinn have accused each other, as well as filed for dual restraining orders.
That same month, Dumontet claimed he believed a luxury real estate agent might be planning to kidnap their son.
A judge denied Christine Quinn’s husband’s request for a restraining order against her as her trial date approaches
PEOPLE obtained a copy of his request, in which he asked Quinn to move out and stay 100 yards (300 feet) from his Los Angeles home.
As for Quinn, in her documents, obtained by PEOPLE, she claimed that Dumontet had a history of “volatile and erratic” behavior.
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She also alleged that her estranged husband took “extreme measures to prevent me from leaving the property” and to “isolate me and our son,” including locking their front security door “so we physically cannot leave the property.”
In April, a judge granted Quinn’s request for a temporary restraining order, which meant that it was her ex-partner who had to leave the shared Hollywood home where the alleged altercation took place. Dumontet’s request for a restraining order against Quinn was denied by the judge.
Dumontet is scheduled to be arraigned on June 4, the LA City Attorney’s office tells PEOPLE.
Reps for Quinn tell PEOPLE, “We are extremely pleased with the decision by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office to file three separate indictments against Mr. Dumontet. He has now been formally charged with child abuse of his two-year-old child, assaulting Christine Quinn and breaching a restraining order.”
“We believe this development is a crucial step towards protecting the legal and personal interests of both victims and trust that the matter will continue to be handled with the utmost seriousness it deserves,” they said.
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