'Shahs of Sunset' Star Mike Shouhed's Ex Claims He Threatened Her With a Hitman

Paulina Ben-Cohen also alleges Mike held a gun to her head in a 2021 dispute.

Mar. 26 2024, Published 4:00 p.m. ET

Reality TV alum Mike Shouhed of Bravo's Shahs of Sunset concept he walked away from the 14 felony fees lodged in opposition to him in 2022 unscathed. After being accused of assaulting his now ex-fiancé, Paulina Ben-Cohen, whilst dwelling in her Los Angeles house at the time, he gained a slap-on-the-wrist punishment, which incorporated anger control, parenting, and gun protection courses, consistent with TMZ,

However, it kind of feels as though Mike’s reign of innocence is also cut short.

On March 22, 2024, Paulina filed a civil lawsuit towards Mike within the County of Los Angeles, delving deep (very deep) into the alleged string of occasions that took place the evening Mike was arrested. In court paperwork acquired by Distractify, Paulina lists slightly a couple of alarming threats Mike allegedly made, one of which contains mention of a hitman. Here are the details.

Paulina Ben-Cohen alleges Mike Shouhed threatened to "put her away" with the lend a hand of his hitman.

On the night of March 27, 2022, Paulina alleges in her lawsuit that when putting her kids to mattress and putting in her hookah, Mike spent several minutes berating her from another room in the house. Eventually, Paulina prompt that he depart. She then proceeded to go to the bedroom where he saved his garments and footwear, and started packing up some of his issues. That’s when issues got heated.

In a number of of the photos Paulina's felony crew — Carpenter & Zuckerman — hooked up to the lawsuit (which appear to be from house cameras), Mike can allegedly be noticed getting bodily with her. At one point, he seems to throw her to the ground, causing a clothes rack stationed with garments to fall on top of her.

The lawsuit states that Mike then “bent over her, struck her in the face, after which put his give up her face and tried to suffocate her as she writhed at the floor and struggled to breathe.” Paulina claims that once she controlled to get to her toes, she left the room and that’s when Mike “threatened to kill [Paulina] and instructed her he had a hitman who would put her away.”

Photos additionally disclose that the dispute eventually moved to the children’ playroom, the place Mike allegedly persisted to lay his hands on Paulina. At one level, the lawsuit states Mike “[suffocated Paulina] with each of his palms for two seconds.”

Paulina says Mike then grabbed her right wrist and persevered to keep his right surrender her mouth, “[suffocating] her for another six seconds."

The tussling continued for several more minutes until Paulina’s nanny, who had been staying on the opposite side of the house, heard her plea for help and came. The lawsuit claims the nanny asked Mike to leave, though he “went upstairs to retrieve one of his firearms.” The police were then called, and after arriving at the residence, Mike was arrested.

Paulina also alleges Mike Shouhed pulled a gun on her in 2021.

Based on the court documents, Mike may have a history of making violent threats toward Paulina. She claims in her civil lawsuit that in 2021, while taping a scene for Shahs of Sunset, Mike threatened to kill Paulina after she “exposed photos of very disturbing text messages he had sent to another woman,” the lawsuit notes.

This apparently all played out at another cast member’s home. Additionally, Paulina alleges Mike blamed her for “destroying his reputation” and threatened to “ruin her life” for doing so.

After arriving home from said taping, the arguing worsened, with Mike allegedly “[putting] a gun up to her head and [telling] her he was going to murder her while making statements like 'you think you can destroy my reputation, not even my ex-wife ruined my reputation the way you did.'" On another instance, Mike allegedly told Paulina, "Tonight is the night I’m going to kill you," after the two attended a dinner tournament at a Shahs of Sunset cast member’s home.

Paulina is now in quest of unspecified damages and punitive damages.

Paulina is now in search of damages, in an amount to be made up our minds in court docket, for the “severe bodily and emotional accidents” Mike allegedly led to her to endure.

John C. Carpenter, an legal professional representing Paulina, exclusively told Distractify, “This sort of habits can't be tolerated.”

How long were Mike Shouhed and Paulina Ben-Cohen together?

Mike and Paulina went public with their relationship all through Season 8 of Shahs of Sunset, which premiered in February 2020. By 2021, they have been engaged. It’s unclear when the couple called it quits, despite the fact that we’re guessing it used to be sometime after the March 2022 incident.

Based on a quick scroll thru Paulina’s Instagram web page, it’s clear she is attempting to move on.

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