As beforehand reported, Shahs of Sundown alum Mike Shouhed was arrested in 2022 on expenses of home violence towards his former fiancee, Paulina Ben-Cohen.
Now, in the meantime, TMZ has obtained surveillance digital camera footage of this alleged assault — and try to be warned:
It’s graphic in nature.
Mike Shouhed attends KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball 2013 present suite at Staples Heart on December 6, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photograph by Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Photos for Clear Channel)
Within the footage, we are able to see Ben-Cohen pulling garments off a rack in her closet … when a person she identifies as is Shouhed comes up behind her… grabs her by the hair… and hurls her to the bottom whereas the garments rack falls on prime of her.
This particular person then grabs Ben-Cohen, seemingly smothering her face whereas she’s on the bottom earlier than making an attempt to take her cellphone from her.
Paulina then throws objects to chase the perpetrator out of the walk-in closet.
From right here… the video shifts to a baby’s playroom room the place the person grabs Ben-Cohen from behind and places his arms round her throat, showing to choke her whereas tossing her across the room.
Paulina responds to the abuse with quite a few slaps and punches to his face and head.
Mike Shouhed is seen right here on Shahs of Sundown. (Bravo)
Ben-Cohen says she shared this video beforehand with regulation enforcement.
Her authorized workforce used display grabs from it as a part of a civil lawsuit towards Shouhed earlier this yr over the incident, however this marks the primary time the complete footage has been made out there to the general public.
On October 14, a choose dominated that Shouhed should enter one yr of a psychological well being diversion program after he was arrested two years in the past and charged with home violence, battery and unlawfully making an attempt to dissuade a sufferer from making a report.
He was taken into custody on the time after a nanny known as the police and authorities seen marks on Paulina’s physique.
Mike Shouhed arrives to Bravo Media’s celebration of the e book launch of Andy Cohen’s “Most Talkative: Stories From The Front Lines Of Pop Culture” at SUR Lounge on Might 14, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Photos)
In her lawsuit, Ben-Cohen alleges this was not the primary time Mike had attacked her, claiming they bought into one other combat in 2021 over her ex allegedly texting one other lady.
She is suing Shouhed for assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery and gender violence.
“This is not the full video,” the accused lawyer now says in a press release.
“The altercation initiated in the lounge. My consumer was making an attempt to cease her from yelling as a result of the children had been asleep. My consumer didn’t need her to smoke inside the home as a result of there’s a baby with a well being concern and it’s not of their greatest curiosity.
“What’s shown in the video is my client trying to calm her down and that’s when he goes behind her and tells her not to yell. There’s way more to the video than provided and this is why my client is getting the diversion that he is.”
