In Part 1 of DailyMailTV's two-part exclusive interview, Mareli Miniutti describes her disturbing altercation with the bellicose attorney Michael Avenatti.
The former live-in lover of Michael Avenatti, has revealed the terrifying moment Stormy Daniels' former lawyer allegedly turned on her, violently grabbed her wrists yelling you 'ungrateful c**t' before dragging her screaming across the floor of his apartment and hurling her out the door.
Breaking her silence in an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV, Mareli Miniutti said she was left 'shocked' and 'shaken' after the alleged attack on November 13 last year which left her bruised and suffering painful carpet burns.
The 25-year-old Estonian actress revealed Avenatti, 48, called her obscenities during the altercation at his $22,000 a month luxury LA apartment, which led to him being booked for felony domestic assault and Miniutti filing a restraining order against him.
Miniutti wiped tears from her eyes as she described the night, saying: 'He grabbed my wrists, looked me in the eyes with menace and called me a f**king ungrateful c**t, it sent chills down my spine, I was terrified.'
The alleged attack was the breaking point in a year long relationship beset with problems, with Miniutti adding: 'After what he did that night there was no going back, I would never be in a relationship with him anymore.'
Mareli Miniutti has exclusively recounted to DailyMailTV the horror night her then-boyfriend Michael Avenatti violently threw her out of his apartment. The 25-year-old revealed Avenatti, 48, called her a 'motherf***er' and an 'ungrateful b***h,' during the altercation at his Los Angeles pad last November
Miniutti claims her much older boyfriend was verbally and physically abusive, financially controlling and manipulative and from the start, told her a string of lies about himself
The blonde beauty, who started dating the California litigator in October 2017, claims Avenatti assaulted her following a petty argument over money
Miniutti's attorney Michael Bachner hit back at Avenatti's claim he has been 'cleared,' saying: 'As we know, he was not cleared of all wrong doing.
'There was just a decision made by the City Attorney's office not to proceed with the case.
'There was no finding that he didn't do anything wrong. In fact the City Attorney's office indicated to me that they believed Mareli, so that's just not accurate.
'They didn't prosecute because they had concerns about whether they could secure a conviction, not that they felt he didn't do anything wrong.
'And they still reserve the right to bring those charges if they wanted to.'
Bachner, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's office, explained that the Los Angeles DA's office dropped the case because Avenatti's alleged conduct did not rise to the level of a felony.
The misdemeanor charges were not pursued because the City Attorney didn't believe they could secure a conviction.
Bachner says Miniutti still has a temporary restraining order against Avenatti and a recent hearing to request the order be made permanent was adjourned until October 11.
The prominent criminal defense attorney says Miniutti feels 'betrayed' by the justice system and described his client as an 'honest' and 'credible' person.
'In my dealings with Mareli, I've always found her to be, as the detectives did, credible, someone who is a caring individual who had no personal animus against Avenatti. This was not a revenge type of thing.
'This was someone who legitimately was concerned for her safety because of what she perceived to be Avenatti's very serious anger issues and I think the affidavit she filled out and the pictures she took reflected that the injuries that she sustained were real and Mareli has always been somebody who just wanted to be safe.'
The lawyer, best known for formerly representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her case against President Trump, vehemently denied any wrongdoing after his release on bail and even claimed the allegations were fabricated by his political adversaries.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, he said: 'There is a reason why I was cleared of all wrongdoing by three separate investigations.
He added: 'Is she now a waitress?'
But Miniutti's lawyer Michael Bachner disagrees, and says Avenatti isn't cleared of all wrongdoing, just that the City Attorney's office decided not to proceed with the case.
For Bachner's full explanation, see the fact box on the right.
Miniutti claims her much older boyfriend was verbally and physically abusive, financially controlling and manipulative and from the start, told her a string of lies about himself.
Photos submitted into court showed Miniutti's injuries from that fateful night.
Miniutti says the altercation left her with scratches on the side of her leg and hand as well as 'carpet burns' on her left side from being dragged across the ground.
The blonde beauty, who started dating the California litigator in October 2017, claims Avenatti assaulted her following a petty argument over money.
The fight began in the master bedroom when Avenatti began to berate her and called her an 'ungrateful f***ing b***h' when she complained about not having enough money to buy gas for the car.
'He stood up from the bed and was screaming at me, he called me an ungrateful f***ing b***h and said I was disrespectful. He left the room and slammed the door.'
Miniutti said she decided to sleep in the guest room to not antagonize the situation further.
'Shortly after he came there and started yelling at me to 'get the f**k out'. He told me that I'm a 'c**t' and a 'disgrace' and all kinds of things, whatever came to his mind. He picked up a pillow and started hitting me aggressively with it.
'I was like, 'Whoa, babe, this is not cool, what's going on?'. I grabbed my phone, I started texting my girlfriend, Jasmine.
'He just aggressively grabbed the phone out of my hand and said it's his phone as well as it's his apartment, so I should get the f**k out of his place.
'I was brushing it off because he had told me those things before. I tried to stay calm but then he turned more aggressive.
'He grabbed my wrists, looked me in the eyes with menace and called be a f**king ungrateful c**t, it sent chills down my spine, I was terrified.
'He started to drag me out of the bed.'
Wiping tears from her eyes as she described the ordeal Miniutti says Avenatti's hand slipped at first because of the body oil she had put on after showering.
But his second attempt was more successful.
The actress, who appeared in Ocean's 8, says she became 'afraid' for her safety and screamed for help towards a window.
The 25-year-old Estonian actress revealed that Avenatti, 48, called her a 'motherf***er' and an 'ungrateful b***h,' during the altercation at his $22,000 a month luxury Los Angeles apartment
Miniutti says the altercation left her with scratches on the side of her leg and hand as well as 'carpet burns' on her left side from being dragged across the ground
The actress said: 'I was so shocked and scared, I felt broken and couldn't even stand up, so I reached for the doorbell of our neighbor and rang it but Michael heard it. He opened the door again and dragged me back in and started yelling at me, 'what the f**k is wrong with you, you motherf**king c**t why are you getting other people involved?' I was so scared of him'
'He got me out of the bed and dragged me out of our apartment all the way to the public hallway in my panties and I was wearing a t-shirt,' she recalls.
'I was so shocked and scared, I felt broken and couldn't even stand up, so I reached for the doorbell of our neighbor and rang it but Michael heard it.
'He opened the door again and dragged me back in and started yelling at me, 'what the f**k is wrong with you, you motherf**king c**t why are you getting other people involved?' I was so scared of him.
'I screamed and then I just instinctively stood up and I said, 'please don't come closer to me, please give me my phone and I'll just go.'
To see someone screaming at you, exploding at you, being so aggressive and nasty with their words and then to change it to 'I love you baby' in a second, I was scared.
Miniutti says in that instant Avenatti changed his behavior.
'He started saying, 'Hey baby, we're so much better than this,' she recalls.
'And that was the moment when I just tried to run out. I didn't even care that I didn't have pants on, I just wanted to escape.
'Just to see someone screaming at you, exploding at you, being so aggressive and nasty with their words and then to change it to 'I love you baby' in a second, I was scared.
'I had seen both Michaels, but I had no idea he could switch it up so quickly, that's what freaked me out, that's what really scared me.'
Miniutti, who was raised in Voru, Estonia, a small town of 14,000 people, before coming to America aged 19 as an au pair, says she tried to run out of the apartment but Avenatti blocked the door.
She said: 'He was holding the door and not allowing me to escape. I ran to the bedroom and knew he'd follow, I put on some yoga pants.'
The slender framed blonde managed to bypass Avenatti as he circled her in the bedroom, exited the apartment barefoot, and made a run for the elevator as he chased after her.
While the two were in the elevator, he allegedly began to beg, 'Don't do this Mareli, don't involve them.'
Miniutti says she was distraught and made it down to the front desk of the apartment complex and started telling the security personnel what had happened.
She says: 'I was all freaked out and was telling them what happened, I told them to check the security cameras but unfortunately there wasn't any cameras.'
By this time Avenatti had changed his body language and he was 'calm'.
Miniutti, who was raised in Voru, Estonia, a small town of 14,000 people, before coming to America aged 19 as an au pair, says she tried to run out of the apartment but Avenatti blocked the door during the alleged domestic violence altercation last year
The lawyer, best known for formerly representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her case against President Trump, vehemently denied any wrongdoing after his release on bail and even claimed the allegations were fabricated by his political adversaries
'He knows how to play his cards, he told them it was a misunderstanding and he gave me my phone back in front of them,' recalls Miniutti. 'He was so calm.'
The actress says a female security guard then took her into a side room so she could hear her side of the story without Avenatti present.
But Miniutti says her aggressive boyfriend kept interrupting and coming into the room.
'The woman offered to call the police but I didn't want to
