Taylor Frankie Paul will not face new charges following an investigation into domestic violence allegations led by Utah authorities.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to file charges following investigations led by the Draper Police Department and West Jordan Police Department, the office announced Tuesday, per the Salt Lake Tribune.
“Due to the high profile of the defendant, the cases were reviewed by multiple attorneys,” the release stated, per the outlet.
Filming on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was paused in March following an alleged domestic incident between Paul and her ex Dakota Mortensen that was being investigated by the Draper City Police Department. On March 25, it was later revealed that Paul was under investigation for an alleged third domestic violence incident involving her and Mortensen in 2024, which was being led by the West Jordan Police Department.
Salt Lake City’s ABC 4 confirmed that the DA will not be filing charges against Paul for either of those alleged incidents. The outlet noted that because incidents occurred over three years ago, the statute of limitations has expired for those events, per the DA.
The events that occurred within the statute of limitations reportedly “lack sufficient evidence to support filing criminal charges where the state must be able to prove such allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.”
“Such incidents lack specificity as to when and what actually occurred or corroboration,” the Salt Lake City DA’s report notes, per ABC 4. “Based on the evidence submitted for screening by the Draper Police Department and West Jordan Police Department, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office declines to file any charges.”
After news of the investigation tied to the alleged February incident was made public, a video of the events leading to Paul’s 2023 arrest was leaked to TMZ on March 19, showing the reality star throwing barstools at Mortensen while her daughter present. A few hours later, ABC pulled Paul’s planned season of The Bachelorette, which was slated to premiere on March 22.
On April 7, Paul and Mortensen appeared in court over an existing order of protection he had filed against the Mormon Wives star. An hour before their appearance, Paul filed a temporary restraining order against Mortensen, which she was granted. (Paul was also granted eight hours of supervised visitation with their shared son, Ever True, on April 7.)
In Paul’s filing, which was obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, she alleges that Mortensen has a “pattern of abusive conduct and coercive control.” She recounted several alleged incidents in the filing, and alleged that as the premiere for her season of The Bachelorette grew closer, “Dakota became increasingly possessive,” and that on Feb. 17, he allegedly tattooed her initials on the inside of his lip.
During an incident on Feb. 23, which was under investigation, Paul alleged that Mortensen came to her home where her three children were asleep to talk about their relationship, a day after they got into a verbal altercation about the same topic, and they entered his vehicle to talk, and he drove away without her consent.
In the filing, Paul claims she “pleaded with him to make me home, but he continued driving away,” and they began to argue, and then Mortensen “became physically violent.”
“The parties argued and Dakota assaulted Taylor by slamming her head against the dashboard of his truck and striking her knee and elbow,” the filing alleges, which also included photos of Paul’s bruises and screenshots of text messages between the two.
THR has reached out to Paul’s reps and ABC for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication.
More to come.
