{"id":2352313,"date":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2352313"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:48:13","slug":"dakota-mortensen-accuses-taylor-frankie-paul-of-scratching-shoving-and-striking-him-in-2026-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dakota-mortensen-accuses-taylor-frankie-paul-of-scratching-shoving-and-striking-him-in-2026-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Mortensen accuses Taylor Frankie Paul of &#8216;scratching, shoving, and striking&#8217; him in 2026 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dakota Mortensen accused ex Taylor Frankie Paul of scratching and hitting him during their domestic abuse incident in February that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/17\/entertainment\/taylor-frankie-pauls-alleged-domestic-violence-against-ex-halts-mormon-wives-filming\/\">halted filming of \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a Feb. 23 report from Utah\u2019s Draper City Police Department obtained by Page Six, Mortensen\u2019s friend reported to police that the reality star was the victim of a domestic violence assault by his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Mortensen then told police that there were \u201ctwo incidents of physical assault involving grabbing, scratching, shoving, and striking,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dakota Mortensen has accused ex Taylor Frankie Paul of scratching and hitting him in a recent police report. <span class=\"credit\">Taylor Frankie Paul\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>According to a Feb. 23 report from Utah\u2019s Draper City Police Department obtained by Page Six, Mortensen\u2019s friend described the altercation. Paul is seen above in a shot from 2025. <span class=\"credit\">taylorfrankiepaul\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The report also records that Mortensen was \u201capprehensive\u201d to report the incidents due to his ex\u2019s \u201chigh public profile,\u201d and that police obtained photographs of Mortensen\u2019s \u201cneck scratches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mortensen and Paul dated on and off from 2022-2024, and share a 2-year-old son, Ever.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been involved in multiple domestic violence incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Following \u201cSLOMW\u201d abruptly stopping filming earlier this month, Paul\u2019s season of \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d was canceled after TMZ <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/19\/celebrity-news\/taylor-frankie-paul-attacks-dakota-mortensen-with-chair-in-front-of-daughter-video\/\">published video of their altercation<\/a> in 2023. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The report says Mortensen was \u201capprehensive\u201d to report the incidents due to his ex\u2019s \u201chigh public profile.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The couple share a 2-year-old son, Ever. The family is seen here.  <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/@taylorfrankiepaul<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the disturbing video, Paul hurled metal chairs at Mortensen, while her 8-year-old daughter, Indy \u2014 who was 5 at the time \u2014 was heard crying nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was arrested over the 2023 incident and charged with three felonies \u2014 one count of aggravated assault and two of domestic violence in the presence of a child \u2014 as well as one misdemeanor count each of child abuse and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p>She pleaded guilty to the aggravated assault under a plea deal that would reduce the charge to a misdemeanor if she abided by her three-year probation, and the other charges were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The exes are also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/25\/celebrity-news\/mormon-wives-star-taylor-frankie-paul-under-investigation-for-third-domestic-violence-incident\/\">involved in a third domestic violence<\/a> incident being investigated by the West Jordan Police Department.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The two, seen here in \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,\u201d have been involved in multiple domestic violence incidents. <span class=\"credit\">Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Paul\u2019s season of \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d was canceled after TMZ published a disturbing video of the couple\u2019s altercation in 2023.  <span class=\"credit\">Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe West Jordan Police Department is currently investigating an incident involving Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen,\u201d a spokesperson for the department told Page Six last week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allegations were reported at the end of February 2026, and detectives have reviewed video believed to have been recorded in early to mid-2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dakota Mortensen accused ex Taylor Frankie Paul of scratching and hitting him during their domestic abuse incident in February that halted filming of \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.\u201d According to a Feb. 23 report from Utah\u2019s Draper City Police Department obtained by Page Six, Mortensen\u2019s friend reported to police that the reality star was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2352314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,24758,24122,397141,355054,304639],"class_list":["post-2352313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-reality-stars","tag-reality-tv","tag-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives","tag-taylor-frankie-paul","tag-the-bachelorette"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dakota-Mortensen-accuses-Taylor-Frankie-Paul-of-scratching-shoving-and.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352315,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352313\/revisions\/2352315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}