Doubling Down With the Derricos alum Karen Derrico has reportedly been accused of threatening to kill her ex-husband, Deon Derrico, and their kids.
Karen, 46, was recently arrested in Las Vegas and charged with harassment, violating a restraining order, stopping a witness from testifying through threat of violence and aggravated stalking, in accordance with documents obtained by TMZ on Wednesday, June 24.
Per the outlet, prosecutors alleged that Karen sent several threatening emails to Deon, 55, with whom she shares 14 children.
“I need you dead,” she allegedly wrote in a June 14 email, per court records obtained by Oxygen True Crime. ”I could kill you, and it won’t even hassle me to go to jail and I’ll kill any of my kids in the event that they take your side.”
In a May 2 email, Karen allegedly warned Deon to “be careful” because she planned on “getting a gun and/or can have someone kill him before he can go to court.” She allegedly tried to forestall Deon from attending a court hearing about a short lived protection order he requested.
Authorities claimed that the emails left Deon “in reasonable fear of death or substantial bodily harm,” in accordance with Oxygen.
Karen was arraigned on the felony charges on Tuesday, June 23, and pleaded not guilty.
“The allegations are completely false,” her attorney Jess Marchese told Oxygen. “And we are going to prove they were completely fabricated by Mr. Derrico.”
Marchese told TMZ that Karen was released from custody on a $2,000 bond and outfitted with an ankle monitor. Her next hearing is scheduled for August 6.
Courtesy of Deon Derrico/Instagram Doubling Down With the Derricos star Deon Derrico shared a telling message following news of his divorce from Karen Derrico. “When you may have nothing else on this world so long as you may have your great health, and family nothing else really matters!” Deon, 53, captioned an Instagram post on Tuesday, June […]
Karen and Deon rose to fame on the TLC reality series Doubling Down With the Derricos, which documented the previous couple’s life raising their 14 kids, including sets of twins, triplets and quintuplets. The show ran for five seasons from 2020 to 2024, when Karen and Deon got divorced.
The exes confirmed their split to Us Weekly in June 2024, noting that they remained “unified within the parenting of our 14 beautiful children.”
Deon previously shared an update on his divorce in December 2025.
“At this point, we are only working it out as a family collectively,” he said on “The Sarah Fraser Show” podcast on the time. “No, I’m not ‘dating.’ She isn’t ‘dating.’ We have now talked about how that might look because our biggest concern is our kids. It’s a novel, complicated, different, esoteric, and I cannot consider enough words to explain it due to 14 children.”