Doubling Down star Karen Derrico has been arrested after allegedly making death threats against her ex-husband, Deon Derrico, and their 14 children. The pair rose to fame after starring on the hit TLC reality show, Doubling Down, which documented their lives as parents of 14 children, including sets of twins, triplets and quintuplets.
As per TMZ, Karen was arrested in Las Vegas and is facing charges of harassment, violating a restraining order, preventing a witness from testifying through threat of violence and aggravated stalking.
The court records state that Karen sent emails to Deon threatening bodily harm if he appeared at a court hearing in relation to a restraining order he filed against her, and also allegedly threatened to harm their children if they sided with their father.
Karen was arraigned on June 23 and will return to court on August 6 after pleading not guilty to the charges.
Her attorney, Jess Marchese, alleged to TMZ that the threats were sent to Deon by himself to frame his ex-wife, and that their legal team was hoping to prove it by working with tech experts. Jess also shared with the outlet that Karen was out on a $2,000 bond and was wearing an ankle monitor.
Karen, 46, and Deon, 55, were married from 2005 until they divorced in June 2024, with the pair opting to share legal and physical custody of their 14 children.
© InstagramThey starred in the reality series Doubling Down for five seasons from 2020 to 2024, until the couple went their separate ways. Deon opened up in November 2025 about how their family was adjusting to the divorce in an interview on The Sarah Fraser Show podcast.
“At this point, we are just working it out as a family collectively,” he explained. “Our biggest concern is our children. It is a unique, complicated, different, esoteric, and I cannot think of enough words to describe it because of the 14 children.”
© Instagram“We tried to keep it hidden. We filed in [a small town in] Nevada,” Deon said of their divorce. “I personally believe that someone who took in our paperwork notified TMZ, and that’s how the story got blasted everywhere. That was just a shock because it was two or three weeks after the divorce was filed. We felt like we were good when three weeks had passed and we didn’t hear anything.”
© Getty ImagesThe father of 14 added that navigating the split with 14 children was no easy feat and that the family were taking it day by day. “Being married, having one child, and divorcing is a challenge. Being married and having two children? It’s a challenge,” he shared.
“But when you quantify that to 14? We want to make sure we’re sensitive to each of their individual needs. We want to answer their individual questions because they’re human. They have questions too, like, ‘How did this happen?'”
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