‘Buffy’ alum Nicholas Brendon was embroiled in legal issues before his sudden death

Nicholas Brendon was accused of mistreatment of building workers anterior to his tragic decease connected Friday.

The “Buffy nan Vampire Slayer” alum was successful a bitter tribunal conflict pinch Britton Excavating and Construction Services, whom he was suing for complete $120,000.

Brendon alleged that nan contractor and institution owner, Stephen Britton, grounded to decorativeness nan renovations astatine his Ohio location aft paying $79,441 to person nan residence accommodate his aesculapian needs.

The tv prima claimed that only nan $7,622 obstruction installation was completed earlier Britton terminated their contract.

However, tribunal documents show that successful December, Britton revenge a civilian stalking protection bid against Brendon. Per nan order, the contractor alleged that nan logic he stopped moving pinch nan Ohio resident was because he “became worried for his information and his workers’ safety.”

Britton accused Brendon of putting an AirTag connected him, according to an grounds to a title that was revenge connected March 12, per People.

“I’ve ne'er had this hap to maine before, and it was alerted for astir apt 3 days anterior that my iPhone picked it up,” Britton stated successful nan hearing, according to nan filing. “Then my wife, I sent thing to her, and she discovered what it was and helped maine fig it out. We did a small alert fastener connected it and recovered it, et cetera, et cetera. So, we recovered this aerial device.”

Britton claimed he “feared immensely” for his life but nan judge denied nan order, according to People.

Another grounds showed that Britton also alleged that they were “afraid to activity astatine Nicholas’ house,” location were “axes laying out, weapons” and nan precocious actor’s behaviour had thing “to do pinch medicine, necessarily. That’s what they’re going to blasted it on, that — his medicine medicines.”

Brendon was previously charged pinch medicine fraud of a controlled constituent and for a refusal to place himself while stopped for an infraction successful 2021.

After pleading blameworthy to felony medicine fraud charge, nan misdemeanor complaint was dismissed and Brendon was sentenced to a twelvemonth of probation.

However, Brendon denied Britton’s allegations and told nan court, “I don’t frighten people.”

“He’s a very calm, relaxed, individual pinch tons of beingness problems and is not threatening successful immoderate measurement style aliases form,” Brendon’s lawyer told nan judge, per nan tribunal docs.

Britton added that his “privacy was infringed.”

“Nicholas Brendon, done aggregate stories, I don’t cognize which 1 is really accurate, but they some admitted, him and his assistant, Theresa Fortier, that that search instrumentality was put successful — put connected my — connected my instrumentality bag, and past they responded to nan Court, they said they didn’t put it successful there,” Britton said during a hearing, per nan filing..

According to nan filing, Britton alleged Fortier was “sleeping successful nan car shed connected nan level successful nan mediate of nan day.”

“I conscionable needed immoderate quiet origin location was conscionable activity everyplace and location was this serene area wherever I could get distant and cipher could travel and inquire maine questions,” Fortier explained to nan court. “And I didn’t person to perceive to what was going connected and I could conscionable get immoderate serene slumber for a small spot and debar everybody.”

Fortier claimed that location wasn’t immoderate activity being done erstwhile she was sleeping successful nan garage.

Brendon’s decease was announced by family successful a societal media connection connected Friday.

“We are heartbroken to stock nan passing of our relative and son, Nicholas Brendon,” nan connection read. “He passed successful his slumber of earthy causes. Most group cognize Nicky for his activity arsenic an character and for nan characters he brought to life complete nan years.”

“In caller years Nicky has recovered his passion successful coating and art. Nicky loved to stock his enthusiastic talent pinch his family, friends and fans,” it continued.

“He was passionate, sensitive, and endlessly driven to create. Those who genuinely knew him understood that his creation was 1 of nan purest reflections of who he was.”

“While it’s nary concealed that Nicholas had struggles successful nan past, he was connected medications and curen to negociate his test and he was optimistic astir nan early astatine nan clip of his passing.”