The disgraced Bachelorette star Taylor Frankie Paul scored a major legal victory on Tuesday when it was announced that she would not face domestic violence charges.
‘After reviewing reports and evidence submitted to the Draper Police Department and West Jordan Police Department, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges against Taylor Frankie Paul,’ said Salt Lake County District Attorney Slim Gill in a statement.
Paul’s fate had hung in the balance after an alleged domestic violence incident from February involving her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen.
Mortensen had accused the reality star of choking him, before hitting him and shoving him into a window.
In March, ABC opted to pull Paul’s season of The Bachelorette before it had even aired after news of her latest alleged domestic violence incident broke.
The network had been battered by increasing criticism for selecting the Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives star to lead the latest iteration of the long-running reality series as an earlier 2023 incident — also involving Mortensen — resurfaced.
The disgraced Bachelorette star Taylor Frankie Paul, 27, scored a major legal victory on Tuesday when it was announced that she would not face domestic violence charges; pictured March 15 in Hollywood
‘After reviewing reports and evidence submitted to the Draper Police Department and West Jordan Police Department, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges against Taylor Frankie Paul,’ said DA Slim Gill in a statement; she’s pictured in a 2024 mugshot
After the arrest, Paul pleaded guilty in abeyance to aggravated assault in August 2023.
In exchange, four other charges that had been filed against her were dropped with prejudice, meaning they can not be refiled in the future.
Rich Ferguson, the chief of police in Draper, Utah, previously told TMZ that he had passed on Paul’s case to the Salt Lake County District Attorney, leaving her fate in his hands.
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