Sugar Ray Leonard filed for and won a temporary restraining order against his youngest son after an alleged physical altercation at the family home and an arrest two days later, the champion wrote in court papers.
In papers filed May 20, the 70-year-old boxer asked a judge to keep his 25-year-old son, Daniel Leonard, at least 100 yards from him, his Pacific Palisades residence, his job, his vehicle, his wife Bernadette Robi and his daughter Camille. A judge granted the request shortly after it was filed and set the order to last until June 15, when a hearing will consider a more permanent order.
The filing lays out a rapid sequence: Leonard says a May 19 confrontation at the Pacific Palisades house turned physical when his son pushed him and police were called. Leonard wrote that officers escorted Daniel off the property. The next morning, May 20, the filing says Daniel appeared at the home again and was arrested for violating the order; Los Angeles County jail records show he was taken into custody at around 6:45 a.m. and was not released until May 22.
Leonard’s paperwork includes stark allegations about his son’s health and behavior. "He has overdosed 4 times," Leonard wrote, and added that emergency care was needed on at least two occasions: "They had to bring him back to life 2 times at the hospital!" The filing also accuses Daniel of extensive theft over years: "He has stolen extreme amounts of money valuable items! He [illegible] steals every day for years!" Leonard wrote that his son "has been a drug addict for 7 or 8 years at least" and that "his behavior has gotten worse over the years!"
Those figures and descriptions are the factual weight behind the request: four overdoses, two hospital resuscitations, seven or eight years of addiction, police intervention on May 19 and an arrest on May 20. The judge ordered that Daniel move out of the Leonard home and stay at least 100 yards away from Leonard and his wife, but declined to list adult daughter Camille as a protected party in the temporary order, writing that additional facts were needed to include her.
The context Leonard supplied underscores the family toll. He wrote that the household "haven’t had a day of peace in 9 years which is the reality of his addiction! Scared for my family!" He described his wife as "extremely afraid" and said he still loved his son even as he called Daniel "a danger not only himself but to his family!"
The record carries a tension: the judge acted quickly to grant immediate protection for Leonard and his wife yet stopped short of extending that same protection to Camille, Daniel’s 29-year-old sister, citing a lack of evidence in the brief hearing. Meanwhile, Daniel’s detention lasted only until May 22, leaving unresolved whether the facts alleged in the filing will be proved or disproved at the upcoming hearings.
A hearing on whether the temporary order should be made permanent is scheduled for June 15. A separate hearing on the alleged restraining order violation is set for June 25. Those dates will determine the next legal steps: whether the distance and move-out provisions stay in place beyond mid-June and whether the violation charge advances or is dropped.
For now, the immediate answer is simple: Leonard secured the short-term protection he sought, including a court requirement that Daniel stay 100 yards away and move out of the home. What will make that protection permanent — and whether the judge will expand protections to include Camille — will be decided at the June 15 hearing.
