Sex therapist and author Dr. Amie Harwick, 38, died on Saturday after police found her gravely injured outside her Hollywood Hills home. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County coroner's office released a report declaring the cause of death a homicide; they also said she had fallen from a third-story balcony. The news is making headlines not only because Harwick used to date Price Is Right host Drew Carey but because of tragic, frustrating details surrounding her murder: Harwick had reportedly filed two restraining orders against ex-boyfriend Gareth Pursehouse, 41, the most recent of which had only just expired. Friends report that a chance encounter between Pursehouse and Harwick at a party in January may have set the violence against Harwick in motion. And now court documents unearthed from the restraining order filed by Harwick show that she suffered horrific abuse at the hands of Pursehouse.The L.A. Times reports that Hernando Chaves, a friend of Harwick's and a fellow sex therapist, claims Harwick had run into Pursehouse at an event in January. "It was the absolute worst possible luck," he said, and the meeting with Pursehouse seemed to "reignite his obsessive preoccupation with her." Another friend, Vera Duffy, said Harwick had recounted that when Pursehouse saw her, he "just went ballistic. He lost it. He made a scene."According to her website, Harwick, a former Playboy model, held a B.A. in psychology from California Polytechnic University and a M.F.A. in clinical psychology (with an emphasis on marriage and family therapy) from Pepperdine University in Malibu. She worked with clients who suffered from a range of conditions, including "anxiety, depression, sexually exploited teenagers, juvenile sex offenders, children with trauma, court-mandated adults, divorce, sexual identity issues, chronic pain, sex addiction, bipolar disorder, displaced adolescents, and domestic violence," it reads.
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