Ruffa-Yilmaz Battle: Ruffa Gutierrez gets police escorts

The Philippine National Police granted Thursday actress/beauty queen Ruffa Gutierrez's request for police security after getting death threats from her husband, Turkish businessman Yilmaz Bektas.

A DZMM report said PNP chief Oscar Calderon assigned three personnel from the Police Security and Protection Office to protect Gutierrez and her mother, Annabelle Rama.

Chief Superintendent Romeo Hilomen, PSPO director, said Gutierrez's request underwent assessment and evaluation before it was approved.

Gutierrez earlier said that she had been receiving death threats from her husband after she told various talk shows that she was tortured by Bektas.

She said their worst fight occurred last February when she was beaten and shut up in a closet by Bektas. She said she escaped to the Philippines with their two kids and is now finalizing plans to divorce Bektas.

Bektas admitted slapping Gutierrez but denied torturing her last February. He said he got mad after finding out that she had already been married to a certain Richard Daloia in 1999, four years before their own marriage.

He denied Gutierrez's allegation that he knew about her previous marriage.

He also accused Gutierrez of kidnapping their children. "My children are United States citizens, not Filipino citizens, not Turkish citizens. I'm going to United States embassy and also I'm gonna call in the States lawyers regarding [the] kidnapping to my children. Until this case [is not finished], I don't want my children next to her (Ruffa),” he said in an interview.

On Sunday Gutierrez told ABS-CBN's "The Buzz" that she divorced Daloia in 2000 but failed to follow up on her petition because she did not have a lawyer. She said she went to Nevada with a lawyer earlier this month to follow up on her divorce petition.

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