Ian Ziering faces accusations of battery and assault two years after an alleged street rage incident.
Ziering, 61, is the goal of a civil grievance filed in Los Angeles County by Jacob Hernandez, Individuals reported on Monday, December 29. In line with the outlet, Hernandez claims that the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum verbally and bodily assaulted him throughout an incident on New Yr’s Eve 2023.
In his grievance, Hernandez accused Ziering of battery, assault, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional misery, negligence and negligent infliction of emotional misery.
Hernandez, then 20 years outdated, recalled that he and a good friend encountered Ziering whereas driving motorbikes on a busy Los Angeles road. They allegedly tried to vary lanes, stopping in entrance of a Mercedes-Benz that wasn’t transferring. Hernandez claimed that he was “not impeding the circulation of visitors in any method, particularly not the Mercedes” attributable to automobiles stalled in visitors.
Per Individuals, citing court docket paperwork, Ziering “abruptly exited” the Mercedes and yelled at Hernandez, who didn’t reply, and allegedly shoved him, which prompted Hernandez to tumble into his good friend. Their bikes allegedly fell on the road. Hernandez claimed that he and his good friend acquired accidents and the bikes have been broken.
The plaintiff alleged {that a} “melee occurred between [Ziering] and a number of people who got here” to his help. He claimed that Ziering’s “actions have been intentional, pointless, and posed a foreseeable danger of bodily and emotional hurt, which [he] actually suffered.”
Hernandez additionally claimed that Ziering leveraged his fame and media connections to spin the narrative in his favor on the time of the incident. He additionally accused the actor of giving regulation enforcement “deceptive info” that led to Hernandez’s arrest in Might 2024 for felony vandalism. Hernandez was held on $50,000 bail and launched. Throughout his arraignment that June, the District Lawyer’s workplace mentioned they weren’t transferring ahead with a prison case towards him.
Hernandez claimed that he’s since suffered “vital psychological well being points,” excessive nervousness and panic assaults in gentle of the incident.
“[He] had his title negatively plastered within the media on account of the general public megaphone which [Ziering] held, mendacity by omission in a number of interviews, making [him] out to be the aggressor,” the grievance alleged, per Individuals. “[Hernandez] doesn’t need to depart his dwelling for worry of public humiliation nor open his social media purposes, as [Ziering’s] story was publicized vilifying [Hernandez].”
He’s in search of compensatory and punitive damages and a jury trial.
Us Weekly has reached out to Ziering for remark.
A video printed by TMZ that New Yr’s Eve confirmed the Hollywood Boulevard brawl between Ziering and the bikers, who allegedly attacked the actor as he ran away from his automotive. Within the aftermath, the Los Angeles Police Division responded to “reviews of a combat that broke out after the group of bikers have been driving recklessly.”
Ian Ziering spoke out after he was concerned in a brawl with a number of bikers on New Yr’s Eve in Los Angeles. “Yesterday, I skilled an alarming incident involving a bunch of people on mini bikes,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 59, wrote by way of Instagram on Monday, January 1. “Whereas caught in visitors, my automotive was […]
The division then started an investigation that resulted within the arrests of Hernandez and fellow motorist Angie Guizar a number of months later.
Ziering subsequently addressed the scenario by way of Instagram, recalling that he had “skilled an alarming incident involving a bunch of people on mini bikes.”
He defined: “Whereas caught in visitors, my automotive was approached aggressively by one in all these riders resulting in an unsettling confrontation. In an try and assess any harm I exited my automotive. This motion, sadly, escalated right into a bodily altercation, which I navigated to guard myself.”
Ziering’s daughter, Penna, then 10 years outdated, was within the automotive on the time of the brawl. Father and daughter weren’t harmed.
“I’m relieved to report that my daughter and I are each fully unscathed, however the incident has left me deeply involved concerning the rising boldness of such teams who disrupt public security and peace,” he acknowledged on social media. “This example highlights a bigger difficulty of hooliganism on our streets and the necessity for efficient regulation enforcement responses to such habits. As a citizen and a guardian, I discover it unacceptable that teams can freely have interaction in this type of habits, inflicting worry and chaos, whereas the response from authorities appears inadequate.”
