Overview
- At a Salt Lake City hearing Tuesday, a judge is considering Dakota Mortensen’s request to convert a temporary protective order against Taylor Frankie Paul into a longer-term order.
- Police in Draper and West Jordan confirmed separate investigations tied to the former couple, including allegations both parties made about a February 2026 dispute and a separate allegation from 2024.
- Dakota Mortensen currently has temporary custody of the pair’s 2-year-old son under a short-term order that remains sealed in court records.
- ABC canceled the already filmed Bachelorette season on March 19 after TMZ posted footage from a 2023 altercation, and cast members of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives paused Season 5 production.
- On Sunday, Paul posted that the last 40 days felt like “hell on earth” and said she is detaching from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.