DiCaprio assault: Woman on trial

ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio has been granted a temporary restraining against a woman he says is threatening his safety.

A US judge ordered a woman to stand trial on a charge of slashing DiCaprio’s face with glass during a 2005 party.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edmund Willcox Clarke ordered Aretha Wilson to face one count of assault with a deadly weapon.

The charge includes an allegation that Wilson, 40, caused great bodily injury.

The details and extent of DiCaprio’s injuries were not made public, although the judge, who reviewed photos of the injuries, said that “this would not be an injury that would be called trivial or moderate, in my view”.

The photos were not made public.

Wilson was returned to Los Angeles in the five-year-old case after waiving extradition from Canada.

She pleaded not guilty and remains jailed in lieu of $150,000 bail.

Wilson’s lawyer Freddy Sayegh said the ruling was not unexpected and that Wilson vehemently professed her innocence. He said he expected to trial to begin within 60 days.

She is due back in court on September 9.

Authorities said Wilson attacked DiCaprio with a broken beer bottle.

If convicted, she faces up to seven years in state prison.

DiCaprio did not attend the hearing.