Selling Sunset's Christine Quinn claims her estranged husband Christian Richard is hiding out to avoid being served her restraining order

Christine Quinn is hoping to speed up her temporary restraining order request against her estranged husband Christian Richard as he allegedly evades service.

The 35-year-old Selling Sunset veteran filed a request for alternate service of the restraining order on Monday, April 22, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly.

She alleges in the documents that Richard — who has not publicly responded — is in hiding and has been avoiding service of the order.

Quinn's request, if granted, would offer her ways to prove that she has made enough of an effort to serve her estranged husband after he was arrested in March for assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly throwing a bag with a glass bottle in it at her, which instead hit their two-year-old son Christian Georges Dumontet.

The filing comes just days after the reality star was spotted heading into court amid her divorce from the 44-year-old tech founder.

Christine Quinn, 35, has filed a request to have alternative service on her restraining order against estranged husband Christian Richard (née Dumontet), according to documents obtained by Us Weekly; seen in June 2022 in NYC

Quinn claims that Richard, 44, has been hiding out under an alias at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills, where he has been able to evade service of the restraining order; seen in 2021 in LA

'Respondent should be permitted to serve petitioner via an alternative method of service due to petitioner’s evasion of service of the domestic violence restraining order documents,' Quinn's request reads. 

Normal procedure requires that the person being restrained be served the documents informing them of the restraining order before it can go into effect, but Quinn's inability to find or serve Richard means that her order is essentially useless for now.

Persons filing restraining orders usually have to prove that they have tried to serve the target of the order multiple times, and that they believe the restrained person is attempting to evade service.

If the option for alternative service is granted by the judge, Quinn may be allowed to send copies to various work and home addresses that Richard has to show that she has made an attempt to contact him, or she could even publish notification of a restraining order in a newspaper.

Restrained persons can also be contacted electronically, but only if they consent to have the order served via email, according to the Judicial Branch of Californa.

However, that option is unlikely to work in Richard's case due to his alleged lack of communication with his estranged wife.

According to Quinn's filing, it was an unfortunate 'two-day delay' that gave Richard 'sufficient time and notice to successfully evade service of the order,' therefore preventing it from being enforced for the time being.

She adds that he would be able to 'violate [the restraining order] repeatedly without legal repercussions.

As long as Richard is not served, the TRO will not go into effect. She claims his lawyers have refused to put her in touch with him or pass on the restraining order; seen June 2023 in LA

Quinn wants a judge to allow her to pass on the order via Richard's lawyers, or to give her an alternate way to prove she has made every effort to serve her ex; seen March 27 in LA

According to Quinn, she has not seen Richard since March 20, and he has not been seen at all in public since March 27, though she believes he is currently staying at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills under an assumed name. Richard has a history of doing so publicly, as his real name is Christian Dumontet, but during appearances on Selling Sunset and in public with Quinn he has used the name Christian Richard.

'Due to my public image, [he] and I have taken additional security precautions when staying at hotels previously, such as checking in under pseudonyms or booking blocks of rooms to evade detection,' Quinn writes in her filing. 'I believe [Christian] could be employing these methods, or even paying the hotel, to conceal his location.'

Since Richard has allegedly evaded service, she has turned to a process server to help, but they have so far been unable to find the tech founder. 

Once the temporary restraining order goes into effect, Richard will not be allowed to have contact with their son, two-year-old Christian Richard Dumontet, and he will be required to steer clear of their home.

Quinn is requesting that the judge allow her to serve the temporary restraining order via Richard's attorney, who she said has previously claimed she is unable to receive the documents and 'refused' to share details about where her client had been staying.

'Although I was very grateful my request for protection was granted, I was extremely concerned that … he would make every attempt to evade service,' Quinn adds. 'My counsel assisted me in retaining a private investigator to have [him] personally served promptly, although I feared locating him would already be an impossible task.'

The reality star claims that Richards attorneys have stymied her efforts to find and serve her estranged husband by 'continually barr[ing]' her from contact him.

She even alleges that one of Richard's attorneys alleged prevented her from entering her own home.

'As I approached the property, Mr. Villicana insisted he was hired and permitted to surveil and occupy the property as directed by [Christian], in direct violation of the TRO,' she claimed in her filing.

After a 'confrontation' allegedly lasting 'seven minutes,' two of Quinn's employees allegedly arrived at the property to assist her in getting Richard's attorney to vacate the premises.

'Mr. Villicana made several threatening remarks while lurking around including, "I will be seeing you again" and "I’m not going anywhere,"' she alleges.

Quinn also claimed that one of Richard's attorneys physically barred her from entering her home and 'intentionally left [the home] in a hazardous, filthy and unlivable condition]; seen in January 2023 in Paris

She even alleges that Villicana stole her cappuccino maker to bring it to his client, though his attorneys have refused to share his whereabouts with her; seen on Watch What Happens Live

Upon gaining access to her home, Quinn claims she discovered that it was 'intentionally left in a hazardous, filthy and unlivable condition' by Richard's attorney.

She even alleges that Villicana stole her cappuccino maker to bring it to his client.

Back in March, Richard was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly threw a bag containing a glass bottle at his wife, which missed her and instead hit their two-year-old son Christian.

The two had allegedly been having an argument over their dogs beforehand, per TMZ.

Richard has denied throwing the bag at Christine, and has claimed that it also did not contain any glass, which he claims was a story Christine fed to police. 

Richard's bond was set at $30,000, and he subsequently made bail, before he was shockingly arrested a second time the day after the initial arrest when violated the initial emergency restraining by returning to the family home.

Although Quinn and her son were reportedly not home at the time, Police arrived with guns drawn and did a search of the home before taking Richard into custody.

An eyewitness on the scene alleged that police could be heard shouting for Richard to 'Come out with your hands up.' 

LA County Sheriff's records indicate that he posted another $30,000 bond and was released hours after the second arrest. 

A source told Page Six that Quinn and her son were staying at a separate 'safe' location, and that someone else had allegedly called the police on Richard. 

Earlier this month, Richard was reported to have filed to divorce Quinn on April 5.

The two were originally introduced via a mutual friend, and the tech founder proposed to her on Valentine's Day of 2019.

Quinn filed for a TRO after Richard was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in March for allegedly throwing a bag with a glass bottle in it at her, but instead hitting their two-year-old son; pictured in 2021 in Santa Monica

Quinn is best known as a breakout star on Netflix's reality series Selling Sunset, in which she sold luxury homes for the Oppenheim Group for five seasons. Her final season on the show featured allegations that she had tried to bribe a client

They were wed in December of that year in a ceremony with a winter wonderland theme featuring an unusual gothic twist, including Quinn's black wedding dress.

The couple welcomed their son Christian in 2021. 

The blonde beauty is best known as a breakout star on Netflix's reality series Selling Sunset, in which she sold luxury homes for the Oppenheim Group for five seasons.

Her final season on the show featured allegations that she had tried to bribe a client.