Dean Jay Factor (cohabited, 1993, heir to Max Factor cosmetics fortune).
Her second fiancé was Dean Factor, heir to the Max Factor fortune, but tabloid reports said Factor and Doherty fought physically and violently, and their affair ended with a restraining order.
"I was weary of the verbal assaults and locked myself in our bathroom. At this point she threatened to shoot me and said, "I`m going to drop you!" I knew she had a loaded 9-mm automatic.... I heard the chamber pulled back; at that point, I hastily exited the house through a back door connected to the bathroom and escaped." —From a May 25 1993 petition by Dean Jay Factor in the Superior Court of California for a domestic-violence restraining order against Shannen Doherty.
Last week Doherty was facing not a hyperbolic tabloid headline but the sworn testimony of former fiancé Factor, 28, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune. And his charges made the tantrum-prone 5`2", 100-lb. Doherty sound violent if not downright homicidal. By midweek, according to Factor`s attorney, Edwin Lasman, an understanding had been reached with Doherty in which his client`s differences with her were resolved, eliminating the need for further court proceedings. An announcement of the agreement was expected by the week`s end.
Still, the allegations in Factor`s 15-page declaration remain deeply disturbing. Once, Doherty tried to run him down with a car, Factor claimed. Another time, he said, she threw a log through a window to get into his house. During one argument, he maintained, she "threatened to hire a few guys to beat me up and to sodomize me `on the front lawn.` " He ended his petition by saying that even though he was taking steps to prevent harassment, "I will live in fear."
Shannen`s father, Tom Doherty, 49, an L.A. mortgage adviser, offers a different spin. "He`s been doing [the abusing]," says Doherty. "He initialed the charge, but she`s the victim."
Until March 19, when Doherty moved into Factor`s $5,200-a-month rented Tudor-style house in the Hollywood Hills, all seemed relatively smooth. "We did not have more than the occasional loud argument," Factor says. On April 19, with 90210 on hiatus, Doherty began work on the set of a movie, the suspense thriller Blind fold. A senior crew member on the movie calls her behavior "cantankerous, snotty and threatening" and says Doherty told everyone on the set how she and Factor "were constantly fighting, saying how she punched him and he hit her." And then, he adds, "the thing with Nelson began."
In Blindfold, Doherty, who does her first onscreen nude scenes, plays a patient who becomes sexually involved with her psychiatrist—portrayed by Brat Pack graduate Judd Nelson, 33. Shortly after shooting began, Doherty began an offscreen romance with Nelson, even though she was still living with Factor.
Factor and Doherty began a vacation together in Hawaii on April 12. They were accompanied by Spelling and Nick Savalas, 20, son of actor Telly Savalas, Tori`s boyfriend of several months. During the trip, said Factor in his petition, "we took full advantage of the romantic setting." He proposed marriage—and Doherty accepted. But within hours, they were fighting. "Shannen came back with a black eye and said she`d been hit by a surfboard," says her dad. "In reality he`d hit her." Factor`s version in his declaration: "After having been kicked and beaten, I pushed her off me. Unfortunately she tripped, fell and cut her eye on the doorstep." What were they arguing about? "Judd Nelson," speculated the senior Doherty. "Dean felt she was fooling around with him."
Over the next few weeks, Factor said he pleaded with Doherty to continue their engagement. But on May 13, some days after Doherty moved out, said Factor, she returned and yet another fight ensued. The next day he filed a complaint with the LAPD. He said in his deposition, "I decided the nonsense had to end."

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