'Elf' and 'Couples Retreat' actor Faizon Love arrested amid child support battle

“Elf” prima Faizon Love is backmost successful handcuffs.

The histrion and comedian, who played the section store manager fed up with the vacation antics of Will Ferrell’s Buddy successful “Elf,” was arrested Tuesday nighttime successful Florida’s Hillsborough County connected 2 contempt-of-court charges. Love is being held without enslaved astatine Orient Road Jail successful Tampa.

According to tribunal documents that were filed earlier this twelvemonth and reviewed by TMZ, Love allegedly owes Tiffany Lee $250,000 successful kid support. Earlier this year, tribunal documents shed airy connected the fiscal woes of the actor, who said helium made zero dollars successful 2025 and implicit the past 5 years pulled successful lone $13,000.

According to his IMDb profile, he’s acted successful respective projects successful caller years, including “The Last Stop successful Yuma County” successful 2023, “Santa Games” successful 2022, and , “F— Child Support the Animated Movie” successful 2021.

In April, Love missed a proceeding successful the case, citing a aesculapian emergency, but the justice ordered the histrion to surrender himself to service 90 days successful jail.

Representatives for Love did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for comment.

Tuesday’s apprehension follows a slew of ineligible issues for the embattled comedian. Last twelvemonth helium was sued for battle and artillery by a San Diego pistillate who alleged helium threw a recognition paper instrumentality astatine her erstwhile his edifice preservation wasn’t booked done a third-party app. According to the lawsuit, the woman’s glasses were breached and she suffered a concussion.