Terrence Howard

[Swanky]

So weird he doesn't have a thread yet, I see news about him pretty regularly. . .






Terrence Howard Ex-Wife Claims He's Screwing Me Royally Over 'Empire'



3/31/2015 1:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

EXCLUSIVE

Terrence Howard owes his ex-wife $508,000 and counting ... so she claims, and she's gunning for a payday.
Michelle Ghent claims Terrence has been hiding assets and grossly undervaluing what he makes a month to avoid his spousal support obligations.
TMZ broke the story ... Terrence is required to pay Michelle $5,800 a month in spousal support, but if he makes more than $62,500 a quarter, she gets 21% of the excess. According to her docs, Terrence made $125,000 an episode in Season 1 and he's sure to get a huge raise.
Michelle claims Terrence has not only failed to pay the 21%, but she says he's way behind in the $5,800 monthly obligation ... to the tune of more than $100k.
Also according to Michelle's docs, Terrence is using his first ex-wife's business to divert his earnings, making it appear he earns very little. In fact, Terrence claimed as recently as November all he was getting in the way of income was just shy of $6k a month ... money that was paid by the ex-wife's business.
"Empire" started shooting in September, so that's when the bucks started rolling in.
But all good things come to an end, and according to the divorce, Michelle's spousal support ends next year.



Read more: http://www.tmz.com#ixzz3VyIpup7V

 

[Singra]

So weird he doesn't have a thread yet, I see news about him pretty regularly. . .

Maybe it's because when someone is this much of an a-hole people can't be bothered #babywipes #domesticviolence

... it's too bad really he's not a bad actor

 

[berrydiva]

No one cares enough about Terrance Howard, he's an a$$. His wife wants that Empire money though. I don't necessarily disagree with him on the baby wipes thing though...lol.

 

[Ms Kiah]

I used to like Terrence Howard. Thought he was great in The Best Man, Hustle and Flow, The Fighter, etc. Then I started reading his interviews and it was a complete turnoff.

However, if Sean Penn can continue to work and make millions, why not Terrence?

 

[Swanky]

lol!

 

[sdkitty]

I remember seeing him on a talk show a couple of years ago. He told the story of how his father was imprisoned for killing a man in self defense. The incident happened in front of his children. Very sad story.

 

[zaara10]

Crazy that he has a new grandchild plus his own baby on the way.
Wait what's the baby wipes thing?

 

[Singra]

In an interview with Elle magazine he said the following...

ELLE: What one item could you find in a woman's house that would prove that you weren't compatible?

TH: Toilet paper—and no baby wipes—in her bathroom.

ELLE: Wait. I don't think I understand.

TH: If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go inside a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean.

The whole interview was a bit WTF.

I used to like Terrence Howard. Thought he was great in The Best Man, Hustle and Flow, The Fighter, etc. Then I started reading his interviews and it was a complete turnoff.

However, if Sean Penn can continue to work and make millions, why not Terrence?

Lol

 

[FreeSpirit71]

Yeah, he's got a history with her. This is from 2012.

Terrence Howard’s Nasty Divorce: 11 Disturbing Claims in the Court File

The actor’s messy divorce features allegations of violence, death threats, extortion, and racial slurs. The Daily Beast looks at the court file and finds one of the nastiest he-said-she-said cases in the history of celebrity splits.

Terrence Howard, best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as a pimp with hip-hop aspirations in Hustle & Flow, is experiencing a different sort of drama these days: His divorce from his wife of one year is shaping up as one to live in infamy as far as celebrity splits go. The Howards have accused each other of physical and verbal abuse, extortion, and threats of more bodily harm in court papers. Although many of their problems appear to have started soon after they were engaged in May 2009, that didn’t stop them from getting married on Jan. 20, 2010.

According to court papers, the honeymoon lasted only a week. By Jan. 27, 2010, Michelle Ghent Howard discovered her husband had a secret second cellphone and a nasty fight ensued. In her court declaration, Michelle Ghent Howard says her new husband “slugged” her in the face and neck. But in his court account, Terrence Howard, 42, says it was his wife who struck him and called him racial slurs throughout their marriage.

Whatever happened, they stayed together another year, separated, reconciled even after she had filed for divorce in January 2011, and then separated again. In a nutshell, Michelle Ghent Howard says Terrence Howard calls, texts, emails, and Skypes her at all hours of the day and night, and threatens to do her physical harm. Terrence Howard, in turn, says she harasses him and has been threatening to ruin his career by releasing audio recordings he had made of conversations with other people in his life before he met her.

On Dec. 5, a judge granted Michelle Ghent Howard a restraining order based on her claims that Terrence Howard has caused her physical injuries that required medical attention, once broke her computer in half, repeatedly threatened her, and stalked her by telephone and on the Internet. But now, Terrence Howard will fight for his own restraining order against his wife for her “constant threats of extortion” and harassment, at a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 17.

Throughout their marriage, his wife would insult him and call him “*****,” “monkey,” and the N word, Howard alleges.

Among the biggest revelations in the court file obtained by The Daily Beast are:

1) Michelle Ghent Howard, 35, said she did not know about Terrence Howard’s domestic-violence history until after she had married him. The actor pleaded guilty to charges of disturbing the peace in 2002, after he was arrested for forcing entry into his first wife’s home after they had a phone argument, chasing her into the backyard, and punching her twice in the face, according to police records in Pennsylvania.

2) Terrence Howard said his wife was very jealous and would repeatedly hit him in public if he responded in a friendly way when female fans approached him. She also would threaten to spit on the fans. Throughout their marriage, Michelle Ghent Howard would insult him and call him “*****,” “monkey,” and the N word. In one instance, he said, she told him, “I never wanted to marry a [N word] in the first place.”

3) After they were engaged in 2009, Terrence Howard said, he offered his fiancée a position within his company as a liaison “between me and the rest of the world.” Two months later, she visited his home in Philadelphia and he asked for her help downloading a conversation he had recorded between the actor and his mother before she died. At the time, Terrence Howard said, he had numerous “Dictaphones” stored in his dresser, containing many private conversations and recordings. When he returned an hour later, Michelle Ghent Howard was in the process of downloading all his files into her personal computer and said she was “organizing.” Terrence Howard said he asked her to erase the files from her computer and she said she would.

But a month later, during a fight about finances in which Michelle Ghent Howard was asking for more money for her monthly expenses, she brought up the recordings: “You think I don’t still have a copy of your f----- up recordings? I heard the conversations that you had with previous girlfriends and if I wanted to? Trust me.” Later, she apologized and claimed she didn’t really have the recordings anymore, but Terrence Howard says this was only the beginning of her many threats to sell the recordings. On one occasion, he said, she also threatened to have him killed: “If you go to the police, I will have you and your entire family clipped. I know where you and they live and I have a lot of Russian friends who would do it as a favor. So, watch your step, stupid-*** [N word].”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...e-11-disturbing-claims-in-the-court-file.html

***** It's a big article. There's a ton more on the site.

 

[Singra]

^ He seems to have a messy history with almost every woman in his life. I think he's been accused 6 times of assaulting a woman.

As I recall he dated Fassbender's ex (the one Fassbender allegedly assaulted) although there was never any public drama when Howard dated her.

So he says he's reformed and he's learnt to deal with his anger but with the drama with his latest wife makes me think otherwise.

 

[bag-princess]

Judge overturns actor Terrence Howard's divorce settlement







LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge overturned Terrence Howard's divorce settlement with his second wife Monday, finding the actor was coerced into signing the settlement by her threats to leak private details.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Trent Lewis' ruling means Howard and his ex-wife, Michelle Ghent, will now have to renegotiate the financial terms of their divorce. The ruling also ends, for now, any claims Ghent has to Howard's earnings from the hit TV show "Empire."


"The evidence of extortion or duress was unrebutted," Lewis said.
Howard contended he signed a 2012 settlement to end his marriage to Ghent out of fear she would leak private details about him, including phone sex recordings with other women and a video of him dancing naked in a bathroom.
The agreement entitled Ghent to a share of Howard's earnings, which would include a portion of his salary from the hit Fox series "Empire," which opens its second season in the fall.
"I could not be any more pleased by today's ruling," Howard wrote in a statement issued after the ruling.


Ghent's lawyers have said she denied extorting the actor in a deposition and argued he didn't prove threats she made in 2011 forced him to sign the agreement a year later. She was not allowed to testify at a recent hearing because her attorneys did not file a sworn declaration from her before the proceedings began.
Ghent's attorneys declined immediate comment, saying they would release a statement later Monday.

Lewis presided over a four-day hearing that revealed numerous private details about the Oscar-nominated actor, including that he had cheated on Ghent during their engagement, he was physically violent with his first wife, and he has already divorced his third wife.

Lewis also heard a 2011 call in which Ghent berated Howard and threatened to sell private information about him if he didn't pay her money by the end of the day. Howard's accountant sent Ghent $40,000 in response to the call, which he called "hush money."

The actor called it "blood money." He told Lewis that leaking the information at the time would have ended his acting career.
Ghent has accused Howard of multiple instances of domestic violence and has an active restraining order against the actor.
Howard, 46, has denied he abused Ghent.
Lewis cited the ugly details of the case and said it was clear Howard had mistreated Ghent.

"There's no question in my mind Terrence Howard is a bully," Lewis said. But the judge also said: "Just because you're a bully doesn't mean you can't be bullied."
The actor was nominated for an Academy Award for his starring role in 2005's "Hustle & Flow."
His career has resurged since the debut of "Empire," a hit series for Fox that had steadily improved ratings each week in its first season. The show's second season, set to debut on Sept. 23, is highly anticipated.

Work on the show's second season continues. Howard spent four days in court during a recent hearing, testifying for portions of three of those days. His absence didn't impact the show's shooting schedule.

Howard's attorney, Brian Kramer, praised the ruling and its impact on Howard's life.
"Today's ruling represents not only a watershed event in the life of Mr. Terrence Howard whose financial livelihood was hanging in the balance, but it's a precedent setting ruling that will have implications for the entire family law bench and bar in California," Kramer wrote in a statement.






https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/judge-set-rule-terrence-howard-divorce-settlement-050735844.html

 

[Swanky]

Empire of insanity? Terrence Howard talks about watching his father murder a man, curing his own Bell's palsy, how Robert Downey Jr. stole $100m from him, and the new form of math he invented proving 1 x 1 = 2 - in bizarre interview

Terrence Howard is opening up about his life in a bizarre new interview.
The Empire star talks about everything from the early tragedy he suffered at just two-years-old watching his father murder a man while they waited in line to see Santa at a local department store to the new form of mathematics he has invented that he is certain will finally prove that 1 x 1 = 2 .

Revealing: Terrence Howard (above with friend and Empire costar Taraji P. Henson in June) is opening up about his childhood and career in a bizarre new interview with Rolling Stone

Tragedy: The Empire star recalls watching his father Tyrone murder a man when he was two-years-old as they waited to see Santa at a Cleveland department store (Tyrone being led to jail following his conviction above)

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Howard appears less excited to talk about his new hit show Empire and more excited to detail his days off when he works on his new form of mathematics - Terryology.
If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two, and that cannot be.
-Terrence Howard on the basis of his new form of mathematics, Terryology

The actor spends up to 17 hours a day when he is not working cutting objects out of plastic and binding them together into shapes held together with cooper wire or magnets to help prove his theory.
There are also crystals on some of the pieces as well as LED lights.
'Since I was a child of three or four, I was always wondering, you know, why does a bubble take the shape of a ball? Why not a triangle or a square?' he says.
'I figured it out. If Pythagoras was here to see it, he would lose his mind. Einstein, too! Tesla!'
Howard says he began professing his belief in Terryology while at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he was studying chemical engineering, and eventually dropped out after a professor refused to agree with him.
'How can it equal one?' he asked the professor of the 1 x 1 equation.
'If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect.
'One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two, and that cannot be.'

Howard's work has had some early success in that he has successfully obtained patents for some of the objects he makes to prove Terryology.
This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one. They won't have to grow up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they'll know that one times one equals two. We're about to show a new truth. The true universal math.
- Howard on the importance of Terryology

'I was not trying to make this when I made it, I was just trying to find the four forces, so I took four planes and put them together where they fit naturally, an equilateral triangle, and it created a circle, a triangle and a square, and from there everything else was created just following my hands leading to a good place,' Howard explains of how he came to make his creations.
'This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one. They won't have to grow up in ignorance,' Howard adds.
'Twenty years from now, they'll know that one times one equals two. We're about to show a new truth. The true universal math.
'And the proof is in these pieces. I have created the pieces that make up the motion of the universe.
'We work on them about 17 hours a day. She cuts and puts on the crystals. I do the main work of soldering them together. They tell the truth from within.'

Drama: Howard talks about being fired from Iron Man as well, saying Robert Downey Jr. (above with Howard in April 2008) stole $100m in franchise pay from him by not supporting him

Back in the game: Howard's role on Empire (above with costars Bryshere Gray, Trai Byers, Jussie Smollett and Henson) has revitalized his career

The 'she' Howard speaks of is Mira Pak, a former model and restaurateur who married the actor in 2013 just three weeks after the two met in Los Angeles.
Pak says in the interview that she was out to lunch when Howard approached and told her how beautiful she was - while she was sitting with another man.
'That's very bold of you,' Pak says she told Howard at the time.
Howard replied; 'Well, only a tiger can approach a tiger.'
The relationship is a complicated one however, with it being revealed in August that Pak separated from Howard in mid-2014 and filed for divorce this past March while pregnant with the couple's son.
I have created the pieces that make up the motion of the universe. [Me and ex-wife Mira Pak] work on them about 17 hours a day. She cuts and puts on the crystals. I do the main work of soldering them together. They tell the truth from within.'
- Howard on the plastic objects he spends his time making that he has patented and believes prove the basis of Terryology

Qirin Howard was born in May, and in July Pak was granted a divorce.
The interview took place after the divorce but before news of it broke, and Howard refers to Pak as his wife throughout while frequently speaking about the love they share.
He says at one point while looking at Pak; 'When you meet your one, it's completely balanced. I don't have any greater authority than she does. It's the only thing that really works.'
Pak seems a bit more conflicted about her relationship with Howard.
She says the two have 'an amazing connection,' but that his character traits can be difficult to deal with at times.
'He's so selfish. But, you know, he didn't have much of a childhood. It was difficult for him being picked on and bullied all the time, she explains.
'We don't have a normal life. In our two years together, I've only gone to restaurants with him two or three times. We've never been to the supermarket together. We've never been to the movies.
'I've never gotten a gift from him. Never, never.'
Then there is that other thing that seems to be a big part of life with Howard - Terryology.
'I help him, cutting, drawing and putting things together. I've developed a slight form of agoraphobia lately. I never go out. I have no friends here,' she says of building the plastic creations.
'I feel like Rapunzel, you know, stuck in a penthouse with my baby.'

Howard and third wife Pak (above at the Empire premiere in NYC last week) still live together and may have reconciled despite divorcing in July

Pak is Howard's third wife, with the actor having been previously married to Lori McCommas and Michelle Ghent.
Howard and McComas married in 1989, and the couple has three children - daughters Aubrey and Heaven, and son Hunter.
The two divorced in 2003 but remarried again in 2005, a sign perhaps that Howard and Pak could be heading back to the altar in the future.
The pair divorced again in 2007, and soon after it was revealed that Howard had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after a 2001 incident in which he 'punched [McComas] twice with a closed fist' according to the police report.

'She was talking to me real strong, and I lost my mind and slapped her in front of the kids,' Howard says during the interview when asked to explain his version of events.
'Her lawyer said it was a closed fist, but even slapping her was wrong.'

 

[DC-Cutie]

I still love him in Best Man - with his crazy arse!

 

[Swanky]

Howard went on to marry Michelle Ghent in January 2010, but she filed for divorce a little over a year into their union in February 2011 and later took out a restraining order against Howard claiming the actor had been physically abusive.
A judge granted that order after Ghent alleged he had caused her injuries, stalked her and threatened her on multiple occasions.
The two later got back together however - a common occurrence in Howard's relationships it would seem - but things ended again some time in 2013 around the time Ghent claims in a lawsuit she filed just this past July that Howard attacked her.
Ghent alleged in court papers obtained by TMZ at the time that while the two were on vacation in Costa Rica, Howard began strangling her following a argument, and then threatened to kill her before mule kicking her.

Howard addresses this incident as well in the interview, saying; 'She was trying to Mace me, and you can't see anything so all you can do is try to bat somebody away, and I think that something caught her. But I wasn't trying to hit her.'
The pair's divorce is once again in the spotlight with a judge ruling just last month that Howard's alimony payments to Ghent will now be reduced after it was revealed she had blackmailed the actor.
Howard even plays one of the phone conversations between the two that he had taped during the interview with Rolling Stone, despite saying just moments earlier; 'I don't talk about my ex-wife because I don't talk about negative things.
The 'Blackmail CD' as Howard refers to it lasts 13 minutes and on it Ghent can be heard threatening to sell damning videos of Howard to the tabloids that show him dancing naked and having phone sex.
'You're a fuc*ing sociopath. Everybody should know it. I'm so sick of the sh*t that you've put me through,' Ghent tells Howard at one point.
The tape is the same one that was played for the judge at trial.
'I mean, does that sound like somebody afraid of me?' asks Howard.
Later, after the conversation is over, he leans towards the computer and hisses; 'You fuc*ing *****. Shut the fu*k up! Shut the fu*k up!'


Other woman have also accused Howard of assault; a Continental Airlines flight attendant in 2000 (the charges were eventually dropped), a Philadelphia woman who said she and her boyfriend were punched by Howard as they were waiting in line a restaurant (Howard claimed it was in self-defense), and former girlfriend May Seng Yang who wrote in a statement to police that Howard choked her and punched her in the eye before throwing her to the ground after she accused him of giving her herpes (Howard filed assault charges against Yang and they both eventually dropped their cases, settling in civil court).

The role Howard's difficult childhood might play in these alleged incidents is hard to tell, especially after witnessing a murder when he was just two-years-old at the hands of his father Tyrone Howard.
Tyrone, his pregnant wife Anita and their three children were waiting to see Santa Claus at at Higbee's department store in Cleveland when an argument began between Tyrone and another man in line with his family, Jack Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick and others claimed Tyrone had been cutting the line with his family and made a comment to the man.
Accounts vary as to what happened next, but eyewitnesses all said that Fitzpatrick at one point pinned Tyrone to the wall and began kneeing him in the groin.
Tyrone at that point pulled out a nail file and stabbed the man to death, fleeing the scene immediately after and leaving his family behind.
'I was standing next to my father, watching,' Howard recalls.
'Then stuff happened so quickly — blood was on the coats, on our jackets — and then my dad's on a table and then my dad is gone to prison.'
Tyrone later turned himself in and was charged with second-degree murder in what became known around the country as The Santa Line Slaying.

The jury ultimately found him guilty of manslaughter following his plea of self-defense and he served 11 months in prison, with his wife divorcing him when he was released and moving with the children to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Howard split his time between Los Angeles and Cleveland as a child, and says his father later imparted on him the importance of acting like a man.
He says he was told by Tyronne; 'Never take the vertebrae out of your back or the bass out of your throat. I ain't raisin' sheep. I raised men. Stay a man.'
It is difficult being a man these days according to Howard, and a struggle to succeed.
'Being a man comes with a curse because it's not a society made for men to flourish anymore. Everything is androgynous, you know? The more successful men now are the effeminate,' he says.

'I remember being in the womb, found comfort there, and have been aware since that moment,' says the actor.

Howard in his mugshot following an August 200 incident with a female flight attendant in Cleveland

Howard in his mugshot following his 2001 arrest for domestic assault against first wife McCommas

 

[Swanky]

Another hurdle Howard was forced to face in his younger years was learning in high school that he had developed Bell's palsy.
Howard says that the right side of his face became completely paralyzed and doctors told him there was a 95% chance he would not regain movement.
It was so bad in fact that he was forced to tape his right eye shut at night in order to go to sleep.
That is when he says he removed the wires from his father's electric razor and attached them to the fuse box in the basement and his face hoping something might happen.
'I did that every day for five months and then I felt the slightest little twitch inside,' says Howard, who eventually had an almost full recovery.

This moment is even more remarkable given how important the movement of Howard's face is for his career, which began with bit parts in the 90s before he exploded onto the scene in 1999 with his performance in The Best Man.
It was his back-to-back performances in the critically acclaimed films Crash and Hustle & Flow however that suddenly landed Howard on the Hollywood A-list, especially the latter for which he received an Oscar nomination.
Soon after he was cast in Iron Man, a role for which he received a salary of $3.5million - more than even the film's star Robert Downey Jr.
He claims that the studio did not want to cast Downey in the interview and that he fought for the actor, saying he would take $1million off of his own fee after producers grew concerned given Downey's past struggle with drugs.
'Robert was so thankful and dadadadada,' says Howard of his costar's reaction.
When it was time to make Iron Man 2 however, Howard says producers at Marvel - who claim Howard had nothing to do with the casting of Downey - called and told him that his role and salary were both being reduced.
Howard was reportedly set to receive $5million for his work on the second picture.
His agent responded by telling the studio 'fu*k you' according to Howard, and the next day Don Cheadle was cast to replace him in the franchise.
'And so I called Robby and was like, "Look, man . . ." Leaving messages with his assistants, called him at least 17 times that day and 21 the next and finally left a message saying, "Look, man, I need the help that I gave you,"' says Howard.
'Never heard from him. And guess who got the millions I was supposed to get? He got the whole franchise, so I've actually given him $100 million, which ends up being a $100 million loss for me from me trying to look after somebody, but, you know, to this day I would do the same thing. It's just my nature.'

The role of Lucious Lyon has put Howard back in the spotlight in a big way, with the breakout Fox hit the becoming not only the most watched show of the past television season but one of the biggest ratings hits in the past 10 years.
And much like he says he went to bat for Downey, he owes his most recent success to a costar - Taraji P. Henson.
The producers and creator Lee Daniels wanted Wesley Snipes for the role, but Henson - the first choice for the role of Lucious' ex-wife Cookie - said she would only take the role if her old friend was cast opposite her.
'They came to me, and I said, "The only person I'll do it with is Terrence,"' says Henson.
'Cookie and Lucious sometimes hate and love each other in the same scene. There's an unspoken connection that you can't fake. My boy Terrence and I have that. So I said to Lee, 'If you can make it happen with Terrence, call me back."'

Howard joined the cast soon after, and is enjoying his new role as the sometimes supportive and sometimes villainous music executive, who at the end of this past season was sent off to jail for murder.
He says that public opinion of him is one of the reasons he took the role.
'Since they see me as a bad guy, I'm gonna play a bad guy,' says Howard.
He also claims this role may mark the end of his career as an actor.
'I'm just trying to pay my bills,' he says of his new job.
'I'm looking forward to this show running its course. If I make a decent amount of money from it, I'll retire.'
That might take a while however, as until this point Howard's paychecks have been held by the studio for ex-wife Ghent's alimony payments.
That will likely change given the judge's ruling in Howard's favor last month when he contested the amount he was paying, and in the meantime he says Pak has been supporting him and paying the rent on their apartment in Chicago while he films Empire.
It is an interesting arrangement for a recently divorced couple though the two do share a new child - and Terryology.

TERRENCE HOWARD'S ALLEGED ASSAULTS AGAINST WOMEN

August 2000 - Howard is arrested in Cleveland after being accused of assaulting a flight attendant when he was asked to return to his seat on a Continental Airlines flight. Howard claimed he was just trying to take his daughter to the bathroom even, while the airline employee said that passengers had been asked to stay seated with their seat belts fastened. Sharges were eventually dropped by the District Attorney.
September 2001 - After getting into a telephone argument with wife Lori McCommas, Howard was accused of showing up to her home and kicking down the door before punching her twice in the face. He was only charged with disorderly conduct for the incident despite admitting to kicking down the door and hitting McCommas. Explaining his version of events, Howard says; 'She was talking to me real strong, and I lost my mind and slapped her in front of the kids.'
March 2005 - While out getting breakfast at Ray's Dining Car in the Philadelphia suburbs, Danielle DiStefano and US Marine Kevin Saffell were being seated by the hostess when they claim Howard asked why he was not being taken care of first because he is an actor. When DiStefano told Howard they had been first in line, Howard reportedly responded by saying; 'Fu*k you, I wasn’t talking to you.' Saffell asked the actor to apologize to DiStefano, which is when court documents claim Howard punched Saffell in the face and DiStefano in the chest. He then continued to punch Saffell until he lost consciousness. Police located Howard after fleeing the scene and he was charged with assault and harassment. Those charges were eventually and he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct once again. His claim to police that DiStefano attacked him first were not supported by any of the eyewitnesses.
January 2011 - February 2012: Howard's second wife Michelle Ghent was granted a restraining order in December 2012 against the actor after claiming he began attacking her just a week into their marriage when he punched her in the face. She also alleged he had threatened her life, come after her with a butcher knife, and even tried to throw her off a hotel balcony in South Africa. Howard responded by filing his own restraining order against Ghent after suffering 'constant threats of extortion.'
May 2012: Howard's girlfriend May Seng Yang told police that Howard choked her and punched in the eye before throwing her to the ground during a fight. According to Yang, she accused Howard of giving her herpes and he admitted to doing so which led to the incident. Howard responded by filing his own suit against Yang for punching him during the fight which resulted in both parties dropping charges. The matter was later settled in a private civil suit.
August 2013: Howard is accused of strangling and threatening to kill ex-wife Ghent on a trip to Costa Rica. The two had reconciled shortly before, and she claimed the attack happened after she said that things did not seem to be working out between them. Howard claims he only hit her because she was trying to Mace him and he did not mean to cause harm. He later tells Entertainment Tonight of Ghent's claims; 'I really can't harm a fly, you know?'

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