Theresa Randle, the 61-year-old actress best known for her role in the Bad Boys franchise, is under a temporary restraining order after her former boyfriend accused her of repeatedly breaking into his home, smoking crack in his closet, and threatening to kill him. A judge granted the order after Dario Pallini laid out the allegations in a court filing, and a hearing is set for June 23.
The claims, first reported by the Daily Caller, paint a disturbing picture of escalating violence and alleged drug abuse, and a legal system that has already dropped multiple charges against Randle in the past year.
That pattern is the real story here. Not celebrity gossip, but a question every American who cares about public safety should be asking: How many times does someone get arrested before the system takes the allegations seriously?
Pallini claimed in court documents that Randle began harassing him in 2024 after the two broke up following a two-year relationship. The filing describes two specific incidents, one on May 18 and one on June 1, that escalated from trespassing to alleged assault and death threats.
On June 1, Pallini said he returned home and found Randle inside his residence. She was, in his words, "sitting in my closet with my dog" and "smoking crack." He wrote that Randle appeared "surprised I was there and said that she thought I was in jail."
When Pallini threatened to call police, he alleged, Randle turned violent. She threw a can of vegetables at him and struck him in the head, he claimed. Police arrived and made Randle leave, but no arrest was reported from that incident.
The earlier episode, on May 18, was worse by Pallini's account. He said he woke up to find Randle already inside his apartment. She allegedly threatened to shoot him, then grabbed a pole from his medical bed and swung it at his head. Pallini said she hit him in the shoulder. Police responded that night, and Randle was arrested.
What makes Pallini's filing especially troubling is the history that precedes it. Randle was arrested on March 1 on a felony corporal injury charge. That charge was later dropped. Before that, she was arrested in October 2024 on assault charges. Those, too, were dropped by the district attorney, TMZ reported.
So by the time Pallini filed for a restraining order, Randle had been arrested at least three times in connection with alleged violence, and walked away from criminal consequences each time.
The court filing includes Pallini's own assessment of his ex-girlfriend's condition. He wrote plainly: "She is addicted to drugs and needs help."
Pallini also described behavior he characterized as erratic and threatening beyond the physical violence. He alleged that during one encounter, Randle "began saying things that didn't make sense." He quoted her as telling him "she doesn't bow down to no man, you Aryan piece of s***."
He also wrote that he could "tell she was high because she started to clean my house and telling me that I owe her."
None of these quotes come from a police report or third-party witness. They are Pallini's claims in a court filing. Randle has not publicly responded to the allegations. The hearing on June 23 will give both sides a chance to present their case before a judge decides whether to extend the restraining order.
Randle's career includes roles in Malcolm X and the original Bad Boys films. She appeared at the Bad Boys II premiere in Westwood, California, in July 2003. She worked with Spike Lee on Girl 6, which screened at the 49th International Cannes Film Festival in 1996.
But the celebrity biography is beside the point. What matters now is the legal trajectory.
An October 2024 arrest on assault charges. Dropped. A March 1 arrest on a felony corporal injury charge. Dropped. A May 18 arrest after an alleged break-in, death threat, and assault with a pole from a medical bed. And then, two weeks later, Pallini says he found her back inside his home, smoking crack in his closet.
A judge has now granted a temporary restraining order. That is at least a procedural acknowledgment that the allegations warrant court attention. But the question hanging over the June 23 hearing is whether the system will follow through this time, or whether the pattern of arrests without consequences will continue.
Cases like this rarely make the national news unless a famous name is attached. But the underlying dynamic, repeated arrests, charges dropped, alleged victims left unprotected, plays out in courtrooms across the country every day. It is the predictable result of a system that treats leniency as compassion and treats the person on the receiving end of the violence as an afterthought.
Pallini's filing describes a man who says he has been hit in the head, hit in the shoulder, threatened with a gun, and had his home broken into repeatedly. He says the woman doing it has been arrested multiple times. And he says the charges keep getting dropped.
He is not asking for anything extraordinary. He is asking for a court order that says she has to stay away from him.
The fact that it took this many alleged incidents to get even that far tells you everything about where the system's priorities lie, and who pays the price when accountability keeps getting deferred to the next hearing, the next arrest, the next time.