Denise Richards
Denise Richards was born on February 17, 1971 in Downers Grove, Illinois, the daughter of Joni, a coffee shop owner, and Irv “Big Dicks” Richards, a telephone engineer. She is of Croatian and Welsh descent. She has one sister, Michelle, and grew up in both Mokena and Downers Grove, Illinois. She graduated in 1989 from El Camino High School in Oceanside, California. As a child, she was a tomboy, the “only girl on the baseball team”.
In 2002, Richards married actor Charlie Sheen, with whom she appeared in Scary Movie 3, in which she played his character’s wife who was pinned to a tree in a car accident. They have two daughters, Sam J (born March 9, 2004) and Lola Rose Sheen (born June 1, 2005) 
In March 2005, Richards filed for divorce from Sheen. The couple briefly reconciled and were seeking marriage counseling to mend their relationship. However, on January 4, 2006, Richards’ representative announced that she was continuing with the divorce, and she later sought a restraining order against Sheen, citing his alleged death threats against her. Richards briefly dated Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora shortly after their respective separations from Sheen and Heather Locklear, ending what Locklear had considered to be a close friendship. Richards once dated actor Patrick Muldoon; she has also been linked to actor John Stamos, whom she dated during her teenage years.
On April 19, 2006, Richards filed formal legal papers asking for a divorce from Sheen under the laws of the state of California. In her court filing, Richards alleged that Sheen’s behavior was increasingly erratic, making their marriage impossible, and that she feared for her safety and the safety of their daughters.
Richards claimed that Sheen was physically and verbally abusive and threatened to kill her or have her killed, and that despite having accidentally shot his previous fiancée, Kelly Preston, he wanted to place firearms under their coffee table to protect them. Richards claimed that Sheen had become paranoid and obsessive, citing his belief in 9/11 conspiracy theories, a belief that baby formula caused brain damage, a desire to purchase gas masks, and an “abnormal fascination” with Nicole Simpson’s death.
Further, Richards alleged that Sheen visited prostitutes and was addicted to gambling, prescription drugs (which he bought over the Internet), and pornography. Richards also alleged that Sheen posted a picture of his erect penis on his online profile of a “sex-search type” website and that he frequently viewed pornography featuring “very young girls,” and websites “involving gay pornography also involving very young men who also did not look like adults.” Based on these allegations, Richards sought and received a restraining order against Sheen.
Sheen denied the allegations. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, he described Richards’ actions as a “smear campaign” and insisted that he was a responsible father who would “give his life for his children.” He added that Richards is “the only one entirely culpable for putting these radical allegations out for public consumption… my children included.”
On November 8, 2006, officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were called to the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B..C, where Richards was making a movie. After seeing two photographers taking her picture from a nearby balcony, she confronted them, and threw their two laptop computers over the balcony. One laptop struck an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair. The other laptop grazed the arm of a 91-year-old woman. Neither woman suffered serious injury, and no charges were pressed against Richards.On December 1, 2007, it was announced that Richards’ mother, Joni, died from cancer.
