The most recent ex-wife of Pulitzer
Prize winning novelist Cormac McCarthy was arrested for domestic
violence Saturday after she pulled a silver handgun from her genitals to
threaten her boyfriend during an argument about space aliens.
Jennifer
McCarthy was arrested and held at the Santa Fe County jail in New
Mexico on a charge of aggravated assault on a household member. She has
since been released on $5,000 bail.
The
48-year-old artist has one child with Cormac McCarthy, 80, whose
notable works include The Road and No Country for Old Men. The couple
divorced in 2006 and the writer has not remarried.
According
to a lurid police report filed in the local Magistrate Court, Jennifer
McCarthy’s newest beau claimed the couple had been arguing about space
aliens and using the gun as a sex toy.
Revealed: Jennifer McCarthy, 48, was arrested
after allegedly pulling a gun from her genitals to threaten her
boyfriend after an argument about space aliens. She is the most recent
wife of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Cormac McCarthy. The two have a
son and divorced in 2006
He said McCarthy left the
couple's home on Aventura Road in Santa Fe following the row but then
returned, changed into her lingerie, before performing a sex act with
the gun.
He claims she then asked: 'Who is crazy, you or me?' before taking the gun and pointed it at his head.
The
boyfriend, who was not identified in the police statement, grabbed the
gun after she pointed it at his head. He said he was afraid she was
going to pull the trigger.
He then went into the bathroom and
put the gun in the toilet. He claims that when McCarthy went to retrieve
the gun, he got it himself and put it in a trash can outdoors.
A deputy, who was dispatched to the house about 10:50 am after reports of a disturbance, found a silver Smith and Wesson gun in the bin.
Well regarded: Cormac McCarthy (center left with
Samuel L. Jackson at left, HBO president Len Amato, and actor Tommy Lee
Jones at right) has seen several of his works grace the silver screen
The deputy arrested McCarthy and booked her on the aggravated assault charge, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
McCarthy admitted having a gun but maintained it had been 'missing for a while'.
McCarthy
acknowledged she had argued with her boyfriend earlier in the morning
and that they had yelled 'at each other and he told her not to touch him
again', the deputy's report states.
But
she did touch the boyfriend's shoulder 'with her index finger to
aggravate him' and he put his hand on her neck but let go quickly. She
told the deputy she hadn't been afraid the boyfriend would strangle her.
The deputy's report did not quote McCarthy as addressing the veracity of her boyfriend's account of her use of the gun.
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