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Stacey Dash, best known for her role as Dionne in the cult 90s film Clueless, was recently arrested and charged with domestic battery after police were called to a residence in Pasco County, Florida. The alleged incident is said to have been sparked by a reported argument with her husband Jeffrey Marty, though a leaked recording of a 911 call heard Dash report her husband to the police on the exact same charges.

According to TMZ, police were called to a residence at about 7:45pm where Dash was located. Sky News reported that investigators at the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office stated that a man (presumably Marty) had “sustained red scratch marks on his left arm” and that “no alcohol or drugs were involved”.

A spokesperson for the Pasco Sheriff’s Office told HollywoodLife, “Pasco Sheriff’s deputies arrested Stacey Dash Lauretta, 52, for domestic battery. She was arrested on probable cause due to the evidence at the scene.”

A source told TMZ that Dash had “acted in self-defense” and she was released yesterday morning on bail according to Sky News, with Fox News stating that her bail was set at $500. Later, The Blast released an audio recording of a call believed to be Dash’s 911 phone call. In it, Dash is the one who actually claims that her husband Marty had assaulted her following a physical altercation with his daughter.

Dash’s manager Nick Terry released a statement to HollywoodLife, stating, “On the evening of Sunday, September 29, 2019, actress Stacey Dash and her husband had a marital dispute in their Tampa, FL suburb; Pasco County Deputies were dispatched to their residence."

"No charges were pressed by her husband, however, Deputies arrested Ms. Dash peacefully, as a formality. Ms. Dash’s husband appeared in court today, September 30th, on her behalf and Ms. Dash was released from the Land O’ Lakes detention facility. No further legal action is pending.”

Terry continued, “The marital dispute, while personal and unfortunate, has since been blown out of proportion. An earlier report on TMZ.com said her manager told TMZ that she was attacked by her husband – both the sources relationship to Ms. Dash and the events of the evening were misrepresented. Ms. Dash is a domestic abuse survivor from a previous relationship and has championed for other abuse victims to speak up. The untruthfulness being reported saddens Ms. Dash and her family – no further comments will be made and we ask that Ms. Dash and her family’s privacy will be respected.”

In the leaked 911 call, a woman believed to be Dash says, “I’ve been assaulted by my husband...We were all arguing, I asked his daughter to get out of my face because she was in my face. I pushed her back, he put me into a chokehold.”

After that, a man is heard arguing in the background before Dash says to him, “No? Do you want to see the marks on my neck?”

The police officer then repeatedly tells Dash not to engage with “that man”, before asking questions about what he looks like, how many people are present and how old the three children present are. Midway through the call, Dash claims that Marty is “getting the children out of their rooms to defend him and talk to [the police]” and then higher pitched shouting is heard; which Dash claims is “the daughter getting hysterical” as she describes her husband taking photos of “scratches on his arm that I did not put there”.

Following that, a man believed to be Marty can be heard loudly saying, “I can’t believe you did this...You slapped her and you slapped me two seconds earlier, oh no, you would never do that.”

At one point, Dash is heard breaking away from the call to shout, “Why don’t you guys just up? You don’t know what my job is...just keep your mouth shut.”

A video of her arrest was also released by TMZ, in which she is seen being handcuffed in a hallway by officers before being led to a police car outside. Dash is seen asking if she is “being arrested” and later, one of the officers asks her a number of personal questions including whether she’s been arrested before (to which she said no) as well as where she was born and what she does for a living.

She answers, “I’m an actress...I did a film called Clueless.”

Later, she adds that she is “on a break” at the moment and says, “I did politics for a while...I was a Fox News contributor.”

Dash was a contributor on Fox News between 2014 and 2017.

In February 2018, she also submitted documents to run as a Republican for a congressional seat in California’s 44th District - but later announced she would be withdrawing her bid as it was “detrimental to the health and well being of my family”.