Ian Ziering faces accusations of battery and assault two years after an alleged highway rage incident.
Ziering, 61, is the goal of a civil criticism filed in Los Angeles County by Jacob Hernandez, Individuals reported on Monday, December 29. In keeping with the outlet, Hernandez claims that the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum verbally and bodily assaulted him throughout an incident on New 12 months’s Eve 2023.
In his criticism, 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Hernandez, then 20 years outdated, recalled that he and a buddy encountered Ziering whereas driving motorbikes on a busy Los Angeles road.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 move of visitors in any manner, particularly not the Mercedes” as a result of vehicles stalled in visitors.
Per Individuals, citing courtroom paperwork, Ziering “abruptly exited” the Mercedes and yelled at Hernandez, who didn’t reply, and allegedly shoved him, which induced Hernandez to tumble into his buddy. Their bikes allegedly fell on the road. Hernandez claimed that he and his buddy obtained accidents and the bikes had 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 had been intentional, pointless, and posed a foreseeable danger of bodily and emotional hurt, which [he] in actual fact 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 legal case in opposition to 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 criticism alleged, per Individuals. “[Hernandez] doesn’t wish to go away his residence for worry of public humiliation nor open his social media functions, as [Ziering’s] story was publicized vilifying [Hernandez].”
He’s searching for compensatory and punitive damages and a jury trial.
Us Weekly has reached out to Ziering for remark.
A video printed by TMZ that New 12 months’s Eve confirmed the Hollywood Boulevard brawl between Ziering and the bikers, who allegedly attacked the actor as he ran away from his automobile. Within the aftermath, the Los Angeles Police Division responded to “studies of a struggle that broke out after the group of bikers had been driving recklessly.”
Ian Ziering spoke out after he was concerned in a brawl with a number of bikers on New 12 months’s Eve in Los Angeles. “Yesterday, I skilled an alarming incident involving a gaggle of people on mini bikes,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 59, wrote through Instagram on Monday, January 1. “Whereas caught in visitors, my automobile 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 through Instagram, recalling that he had “skilled an alarming incident involving a gaggle of people on mini bikes.”
He defined: “Whereas caught in visitors, my automobile was approached aggressively by one in every of these riders resulting in an unsettling confrontation. In an try to assess any injury I exited my automobile. 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 automobile 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 said on social media. “This case highlights a bigger subject of hooliganism on our streets and the necessity for efficient regulation enforcement responses to such habits. As a citizen and a mother or father, I discover it unacceptable that teams can freely interact in this type of habits, inflicting worry and chaos, whereas the response from authorities appears inadequate.”
