The wife of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer has accused him of physically, verbally and emotionally abusing her throughout their eight-year marriage.
In a court filing for the couple’s divorce proceedings in Montana, Nina Koupriianova said Spencer once left her with bruises after dragging her off a bed and down stairs in 2011.
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She also said he “attacked” and bruised her again in 2014, when she was four months pregnant with their first child.
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Spencer told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he is “not an abusive person” and said his wife was “never in a dangerous situation.”
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Spencer popularized the term “alt-right” to describe a fringe movement mixing white nationalism, anti-Semitism and other far-right extremist views.
BuzzFeed News first reported the allegations Koupriianova made in a June court filing.
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