Coyote Shivers will face justice and may have time to think about his misdeeds behind bars. He was convicted of that offense and awaits sentencing on March 27.įinally, after years of heaping continued abuse, Perrette’s nightmare appears to be over. His plans failed, though, and resulted in his arrest in 2012 for violating a restraining order. Using a savvy manipulation of the family law system to inflict harm on his ex-wife, he was able to stalk and terrorize her while remaining legally protected. Unsatisfied with just her departure, Shivers followed that with a campaign of physical and psychological harassment that spanned for years. Shivers’ bizarre and controlling behavior literally sent Perrette scrambling out of the couple’s marital home with what she could carry in her hands. Part of that hell was cutting the letter “C” into Perrette’s back while she was tied to a chair, among assorted other abuses. At least that’s what he did when he wasn’t making his wife’s life a living hell. Perrette’s marriage was destroyed by a highly abusive, obsessive ne’er-do-well of a husband, Francis Shivers, a musician who supplemented his income by spinning records in L.A. Pauley Perrette, a talented and popular actress in the very popular television show, CBS’s NCIS, has all the standard trappings of show business success fame, fortune a bitter and very public divorce, the aftereffects of which have lasted for years.Ī quick read through of the numerous Google returns on the story paints a horrific, ugly picture. Let’s examine them, one at a time, starting with how this might be written if Perrette herself were choosing the script: A starlet in distress, but justice prevails There are a couple of possible versions of reality regarding this story. Actress Pauley Perrette has been embroiled in a decade long, post-divorce court battle with her former husband, Francis “Coyote” Shivers.