Milton Bradley was the original Ray Rice except 10x worse

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2005

Victim said her husband grabbed her right hand and pushed her hand against her mouth, causing her to hit herself.... Victim said her husband grabbed her cellphone from a bedroom table and threw it towards the wall. Victim said her cellphone broke into several parts.... Victim said she followed him into the hallway. Victim said her husband turned around and used his right forearm and pushed her against the wall. Victim stated his forearm was against her throat and she was having a difficult time breathing.... Victim said her husband went around the house and picked up all the cellphones, house phones, her car keys and credit cards and left.

MONIQUE BRADLEY: [Milton] had gone to Las Vegas ... and had purchased some presents for me.... I told him that I did not want his gifts and he became upset. He opened one of the boxes ... took out [a shoe] and hit me on the head with it.

2009

MONIQUE BRADLEY: Milton stated to me that he was going to lunch with Ken Griffey Jr. I [joked] ... that maybe he could pick him up in his new overpriced car [a Rolls-Royce Phantom]. Milton ... became furious with me.... He yelled that he hated me, that I made him sick and that he wanted me to leave. He got very close to my face in a menacing manner [Milton outweighed Monique by about 100 pounds].... He then grabbed my laptop computer and smashed it on the floor.... He then grabbed my cellular phone and left. I was extremely frightened by his anger and was shaking.... The police met me at our residence.... That night I checked into a hotel with our children.... I believe that Milton's constant tirades, his anger and his unreasonableness are causing emotional harm to our young children.... I am afraid that Milton will actually take my life.... [He] has threatened to kill me before he lets me leave him with his money.... Milton makes these comments to me in front of our minor children.... Usually after he yells at me or calls me names he will send me a message that he is sorry, that he needs me and he will ask me not to leave. I have always forgiven him in the past.... Living under this pressure is causing me to have a great deal of stress and anxiety.

By December the Bradleys had dismissed their 2009--10 divorce proceedings. On Dec. 31 they were in New York City to celebrate the New Year.

MONIQUE BRADLEY: Mr. Bradley got in late ... and he started arguing. He was already in a bad mood. And he took a hotel glass and threw it at me. It broke on my head.... I was in shock, and blood was just coming down my face.... I was trying to clean it up. He wouldn't let me go to the doctor. And he told me I was using too many towels ... to clean up the blood.... I guess somebody called [hotel security] because they heard the disturbance, and [Milton] looked me in my eye and he held me and he's like, "Don't throw away everything we have," like this is his future, his job. So I protected him even though I'm standing there in blood and he didn't even care.

2012

On Nov. 4, before attending a Lakers game, Milton Bradley smoked marijuana outside his home with a friend.

MONIQUE BRADLEY: I opened the door and said, "... Go somewhere else and do that." And he said I humiliated him, and he charged at me and he strangled me.... He lifted me by my throat ... and threw me against this wall.... He carried me from here to here by my throat for maybe five or six seconds, and then he just kind of dropped me.

2013

Milton Bradley has been charged with abusing his estranged wife and faces up to 13 years in jail if convicted, city prosecutors announced Friday. Bradley, 34, was charged on [Jan. 10] with 13 misdemeanor counts of assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and dissuading a witness from making a report. —AP

On May 10, the trial of The State of California v. Milton Obelle Bradley began, with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson presiding. Monique testified while suffering from painful, undiagnosed abdominal swelling that made her appear pregnant.

On June 3, after a 12-day trial and two days of deliberation, the jury convicted Milton Bradley on nine counts, including inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, assault with a deadly weapon (a baseball bat), criminal threats and brandishing a deadly weapon. Because all are misdemeanors, he was allowed to make bail. Meanwhile, Monique's health worsened.

MONIQUE BRADLEY: Milton has even blocked my ability to submit my medical bills for any potential reimbursement because he refuses to provide me with the information for processing the claims

On Sept. 14, Monique Bradley died at Encino Hospital Medical Center. A death certificate dated Oct. 10 lists the causes as cryptogenic (i.e., of unknown origin) cirrhosis of the liver, hemorrhagic shock and cardiorespiratory arrest. She was 33.

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