The former Baywatch actress dubbed ‚Delta Karen‘ for punching an 80-year-old man in the face on a Tampa-to-Atlanta flight, threatened to kill her mother and stepfather and kidnap their children, court documents claim.
Patty Cornwall’s stepfather filed a restraining order against her in July 2020 claiming she made the threats while living at their house.
Robert Spoeri’s restraining order application, filed in a County court, says Cornwall, 51, claimed she was the real mother of his two children and he feared she ‚might kidnap them when she has a delusional episode‘.
Spoeri claimed his stepdaughter, who has now been released on bail following Thursday’s air rage incident, had already been detained two or three times before by the authorities for mental health reasons.
‚Patricia Cornwall is the daughter of my wife Yolanda Spoeri,‘ he wrote.
‚Patricia Cornwall has threatened to kill Yolanda Spoeri and Robert Spoeri.
She has physically attacked and beaten Robert & Yolanda Spoeri.
Patricia Cornwall (pictured left in a November mugshot for a DUI) who was charged with assaulting an older passenger on a Delta flight last week, was previously accused of threatening her mother Yolanda (right) and stepfather Robert Spoeri
Robert Spoeri, 71, a California judge, filed a restraining order against his stepdaughter last July claiming she ‚threatened to kill‘ him and her mother and kidnap his two teenage kids (pictured) while she lived at their house
Spoeri, 71, a California workers‘ compensation judge based in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, detailed a vicious attack in his restraining order application.
‚Patricia kicked me, punched me, threatened to kill me, jumped on me, pulled my hair very hard, pounded my head into the floor, and more, because I would not divulge where her mother was hiding.
‚Her real goal was to do far greater injury to her mother,‘ he wrote.
‚She threatened my wife a few weeks ago and my wife had to hide in the garage and flee and spend the night at a friend’s house.‘
Spoeri said it was the ‚2nd time or 3rd time‘ Cornwall had been ‚put on 5150 hold,‘ where a person can be held involuntarily in a psychiatric unit for up to 72 hours.
He claimed he sustained ‚minor cuts and abrasions, headaches, emotional trauma‘ from her alleged attack.
Spoeri asked in the court application for his stepdaughter to be ordered to stay 100 yards from him, his home, workplace, his two 14-year-old kids‘ school, his vehicle, and his church, Corpus Christi Pacific Palisades.
‚Patricia is going to get her own place to live,‘ he wrote.
‚I am afraid to have Patricia come back to our house for even one night.‘
The judge who reviewed the application, Susan Lopez-Giss, granted a temporary restraining order on July 31, 2020, telling Cornwall not to ‚harass, intimidate, molest, attack, strike, stalk, threaten, assault, hit, abuse, destroy personal property of, or disturb the peace of the person.‘
However, she initially denied a ‚stay-away‘ order, saying it was unclear whether Cornwall was ill or if Spoeri’s house was also her home.
‚Allegations are too vague to order a stay away without a hearing,‘ Lopez-Giss wrote.
Spoeri, pictured with his wife and kids outside the Louvre in Paris, claimed Cornwall had already been detained twice or three times before by the authorities for mental health reasons
Spoeri is married to Cornwall’s mother formerly known as Yolanda Cummings, a legal assistant in California, according to her LinkedIn page
Spoeri said it was the ‚2nd time or 3rd time‘ Cornwall had been ‚put on 5150 hold‘
Spoeri claimed ‚Patricia kicked me, punched me, threatened to kill me, jumped on me‘ during the alleged attack
Neither Cornwall nor her family showed up to a court hearing the following month and the case was dismissed.
In his restraining order application, Spoeri said Cornwall would be ‚going to get her own place to live.‘
However, court documents for her airplane assault charge say she has been released on bail to return to her mother and stepfather’s home.
She was allowed to fly back to LA — not on Delta — but then a flight ban would be imposed.
Cornwall, a former actress who appeared on episodes of Baywatch and Married…with Children under the name Patty Breton, was charged with assault in Atlanta on Monday over her scuffle with the 80-year-old man on her Delta flight last week, and posted a $20,000 bond at her arraignment.
Cornwall’s previous rap sheet includes two DUI arrests, one in California and the other in Florida within 11 months of each other.
She was arrested on December 11, 2020 in Los Angeles and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
She pleaded no contest in March to having a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent or higher, court records show.
She was sentenced to 36 months of summary probation and was ordered to complete community service, and she also had to enroll in a three-month first-offender alcohol and drug education counseling program.
Cornwall was arrested again in Walton County, Florida on November 10 this year for a 3am DUI and was bailed out for $1,000 according to Walton County Sheriff’s Office records.