Trouble for rocker Jack White.
The divorce proceedings between White and his wife, Karen Elson, are getting ugly as a judge has granted a restraining order against the musician after claims he barraged his wife with harassing phone calls and e-mails in recent months.
TMZ reported that a Nashville circuit court filing requesting the order, as Elson's attorney claimed White had been pressuring his wife into a settlement agreement over the parenting of the couple's two children.
"He has persisted in discouraging her from communicating with or taking advice from her counsel in effort to coerce her into acting against her and the parties' minor children's best interests, often by emails laced with profanity and calling wife derogatory names," the filing stated. "These communications are often threatening in nature and the wife fears for her and the children's safety as a result of this harassment."
White - according to the report - recently urged Elson to contact their children's private school to have their son placed in a different class from the child of another entertainer whom White "feels has 'ripped off' his music."
Circuit Judge Phillip Robinson granted the restraining order July 19, allowing White to contact his wife through e-mail only. A hearing on the case is scheduled for Aug. 29.