Hunter Tylo
Actress Hunter Tylo filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on Thursday after a series of personal setbacks.
Tylo plays Dr. Taylor Hayes on the daytime CBS series “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
In the show, she’s described as “a psychiatrist whose life has been intertwined with the lives and loves of the Forrester and the Marone families.”
Her initial bankruptcy filing, filed by a Las Vegas attorney, didn’t include detailed financial information such as her current salary. It listed her assets and liabilities as each ranging from $1 million to $10 million.
It lists addresses for the actress in Las Vegas and in Sherman Oaks, Calif., in the greater Los Angeles area.
The filing indicated Tylo’s creditors or those she is involved with financially include several attorneys, home equity lender Chase, some medical providers and Innovative Artists Talent and Literary Agency in Encino, Calif.
The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Nevada followed dismissal last year of a lawsuit Tylo filed in 2009 against a therapy center and a social worker, claiming they were responsible for the 2007 drowning death of her son in Henderson.
Tylo alleged in the 2009 case in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas that social worker Shanna Downing and Horizon Family Therapy & Wellness, the Henderson clinic where Downing treated Tylo family members, had advised that Michael Edward Tylo II, 19, not receive medication for seizures he was experiencing — and that Tylo II later drowned in the family pool after suffering a seizure.
Downing denied responsibility for Tylo II’s death and her attorney has produced evidence indicating seizure medication had been prescribed to him.
In an earlier lawsuit, filed in 2006, Hunter Tylo had sued the therapist and Horizon Family Therapy & Wellness, alleging Downing had improperly treated Hunter Tylo and three of her children in 2004 and 2005, allegedly causing them emotional distress.
That suit was also dismissed last year, with Downing winning $749,185 in a counterclaim alleging abuse of process and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Downing complained Tylo had hurt her and her business by making derogatory comments about Downing.
Horizon Family Therapy & Wellness, in the meantime, also won summary judgment and was dismissed from the suit. It won nearly $51,000 in costs and attorney’s fees from Tylo.
It wasn’t clear from court records late Thursday whether Tylo had appealed any of these rulings or if any of the damages and costs had been paid to Downing and Horizon Family Therapy & Wellness.