“Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum Phaedra Parks’ ex-husband, Apollo Nida, was arrested and charged with family violence battery over an alleged altercation with his wife, Sherien Almufti, whose legal last name is Copes.
According to legal documents obtained Thursday by Page Six, the incident took place in March.
The police report states that Copes called the cops after she “had just came [sic] home from a bar with friends and had three alcoholic beverages.”
She told police that she and Nida — who secretly married in October 2022 — “were having a verbal altercation about how they were cheating on each other.”
Copes told officers that during the “verbal altercation,” Nida, 45, showed her “a video of her kissing another man.”That’s when he allegedly “pulled her by the hair and pushed her against a refrigerator,” which led to a “scuffle” between the two.
Copes told cops she then “ran outside and called for help” before going back inside to grab her phone off the ground “to call the police.”
At that point, she said her husband “left the location.”
Copes then showed responding officers “a surveillance video of the verbal altercation,” which “did not show the physical altercation” between the pair.
Nida eventually “returned to the location” and provided police with a statement “consistent” with Copes’.
“The only thing that was different was the physical altercation,” the police report states, noting that Nida claimed he “tried to take … Copes’ phone from her” during their argument.
While trying to take the phone from Copes, Nida told cops “she balled up onto the ground” to try to “protect her phone.”
Responding officers did not observe “any marks or bruises that showed [Copes] was in a physical altercation,” and she “denied medical attention when offered.”
Nida was then placed under arrest and charged with domestic violence and simple assault. He was transported to Fulton County Jail, from which he was released after posting a $3,000 bond.
Prosecutors charged Nida with one misdemeanor count of simple battery – family violence and accused him of “intentionally mak[ing] physical contact of an insulting and provoking nature” with Copes “by pulling her by the hair and pushing her.”
A hearing took place last month; however, court records do not indicate whether he entered a plea.
Reps for Nida and Copes did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment; however, she told InTouch, who was first to report the news, “It was a huge blowout between a married couple that has brought us much closer since then. We have worked through our issues and have been going to couples therapy. The end.”
This isn’t Nida’s first run-in with the law, as he was previously imprisoned twice for fraud. It’s unclear whether he was still on probation at the time of his alleged altercation with Copes
