By Andrea Cavallier For Dailymail.Com
00:15 18 May 2023, upgraded 01:23 18 May 2023
- Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Johnson declared a limiting order versus spouse Will Aghajanian in 2022. They are chefs and co-owners of Hollywood hotspot Horses
- She declared that Aghajanian joked about feeding their kitten to coyotes, then experienced him ‘strongly shaking’ the kitten, who passed away the next day
- Aghajanian rejected the claims in the court filings calling them ‘incorrect claims’
A chef at Hollywood hotspot Horses declared in a recent divorce filing that her spouse and co-owner of the restaurant tortured and killed their cats.
Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Johnson declared a domestic violence limiting order versus Will Aghajanian in November 2022, The Los Angeles Times reported.
She declared that Aghajanian joked about feeding their kitten to coyotes, then experienced him ‘strongly shaking’ it, which it passed away the next day. Aghajanian put the dead cat in the garbage and demanded keeping the remains in your house,’ she composed.
Johnson likewise declared that Aghajanian’s ‘psychological and mental abuse’ kept her from understanding what he was doing to the animals prior to it was far too late.
Aghajanian rejected the dreadful claims in the court filings calling them ‘incorrect claims.’ He then declared he was the victim in the marital relationship and said Johnson consistently threatened to eliminate him and burned him a minimum of two times with a metal spatula and a spoon she had actually very first positioned into a fryer, according to court filings.
Johnson and Aghajanian’s restaurant Horses opened in September 2021, received rave evaluations and was an instantaneous star favorite.
It was on Eater LA’s ‘heatmap’ of ‘most popular brand-new dining establishments’ for months and the Los Angeles Times called it ‘a brand-new contemporary L.A. organization’ and ‘the city’s most exciting brand-new dining experience in the in 2015.’
But the co-chefs, who as soon as trained at Noma in Copenhagen, which is commonly admired as the world’s finest restaurant, had actually presumably been at chances for several years.
Johnson submitted her ask for the limiting order in November 2022 to keep Aghajanian far from her due to the fact that she had actually declared he had physically attacked her several times while they were together.
She declared that in 2019, Aghajanian dragged her by the legs throughout the flooring while she yelled and tried to withstand.
The filing likewise declared that Aghajanian been accountable for the deaths of both of their cats.
‘Will and I have actually had cats that inexplicably wound up passing away, consisting of one in 2017 who I required to a shelter when she ended up being seriously injured over night. The shelter informed me she had actually been seriously mistreated, however Will rejected it.’
‘I thought him. Then, last month, we were offered another kitten,’ she composed detailing how it wasn’t long prior to that kitten was dead too, after he had actually said he didn’t like it.
Johnson has actually likewise asked for that Aghajanian stay 100 backyards far from their dogs, Pancho, Javi and Spud, according to the filing.
Aghajanian, who declared he was the victim in the marital relationship, said in the filings that it was in fact Johnson who abused their animals.
‘She wrongly implicates me of things that she has actually done or that she threatened to do to me and my family pets,’ he composed. ‘My family pets resemble kids to me and I enjoy them a lot.’
‘I am afraid of [Johnson] given that I am the victim of [her] long-lasting abuse that has actually happened throughout our relationship,’ he composed.
The domestic violence limiting order submitted by Johnson was authorized and reissued it on May 1, according to court files.
Even so, both were still permitted to be in Horses after the order was submitted, however Aghajanian needed to remain 10 feet far from Johnson.
