Paris Hilton’s ex-fiancé was arrested after the police brawl

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Actor Chris Zylka, a former child actor who was once engaged to the heiress Paris Hilton, was arrested for assault and attempted felony plus misdemeanor disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and aggravated menacing on Dec. 4 near Cleveland, Ohio.

Conformable The Daily MailZylka, 39, was trying to break a woman’s car window when police arrived to detail him. Local authorities had received a call reporting that “a man without a shirt or shoes, in the freezing cold, was trying to enter a vehicle with a gun.” When they arrived, police said Zylka was “foaming at the mouth” and appeared to be on drugs. The actor was reportedly holding a cellphone, but was holding it in front of the officers as if it were a weapon.

Local television station WKBN reported that Zylka was stunned with a taser repeatedly, but it took three officers to subdue him and place him in handcuffs. Apparently they had to give him ketamine to calm him down. Eventually, Zylka was loaded into an ambulance. A warrant has been issued for the actor and model’s arrest, but he is not yet in police custody.

Zylka, who according to him Instagram is a fitness buff and avid marathon runner who dated Hilton from 2015 to 2018. The couple got engaged in January 2018, when Zylka gave the heiress a $2 million engagement ring, but split for 10 months later.

Hilton said Cosmopolitan in 2020, ending that engagement was the “best decision” she ever made. “I just don’t think (he) was the right person and I feel like I’m an incredible woman and I deserve someone so amazing. It just didn’t feel right. I worked way too hard to give my life to someone they have to be perfect,” she told the press.