EXCLUSIVE: Fox Information anchor Julie Banderas’ husband Andrew Sansone is CLEARED of prison fees after she accused him of holding a knife to her throat throughout battle over mashed potatoes

The husband of Fox News anchor Julie Banderas has been cleared of prison fees after she accused him of placing a steak knife to her throat throughout an argument over mashed potatoes, DailyMail.com can reveal.

A city choose in Southampton, New York, discovered Andrew Sansone not responsible after listening to proof in a non-jury trial, after he claimed he solely grabbed the knife in jest and by no means really menaced her after she ate potatoes he’d ready for the kids’s dinner.

Sansone, 55, nevertheless, mentioned his spouse cooked up the story throughout their messy divorce battle.

‘This malicious accusation in opposition to my shopper was a blatant misuse of the prison justice system, utilizing it as a sword and never a defend, purely to achieve leverage in divorce court docket,’ his lawyer Edward Burke informed DailyMail.com Monday.

A choose discovered Julie Banderas’ husband not responsible of prison fees after she accused him of placing a knife to her throat, DailyMail.com can reveal 

In February the Fox Information anchor introduced reside on Greg Gutfeld that she was getting a divorce , saying ‘F**ok Valentine’s Day’. Banderas posted a selfie teasing her divorce announcement on Gutfeld 

However her lawyer Frank Blangiardo countered. 

‘Spousal abuse is just not a joking matter,’ he mentioned. 

‘Management and jealousy in divorce are plentiful. After a yr of divorce litigation an estranged partner mustn’t level a knife at his spouse, interval.’

Sansone was arrested and charged with menacing and prison possession of a weapon for the alleged incident at their house within the Hamptons the night time of December 14.

The Fox host, 49, accused him of flying right into a rage, pointing the blade at her neck, inflicting her to concern for her life. Their kids, ages 6, 10 and 12, have been reportedly elsewhere in the home on the time.

She took 5 days earlier than she referred to as police on December 19 and her husband of 14 years was led out of the house in handcuffs. A choose later granted a restraining order prohibiting him from having additional contact together with his spouse.

Based on the police report, the couple have been arguing earlier within the day about cash – a typical flashpoint as they battled over their pending divorce and little one custody points.

The prison fees have been hashed out throughout a June trial, the place the warring spouses introduced their competing variations of the mashed potatoes incident.

Choose Gary Weber, in his ruling on July 25, recapped the arguments, noting that Sansone had ready a brand new recipe and Banderas was sampling it by taking a number of spoonfuls from the blending bowl.

Based on Banderas’s testimony, it was the third scoop that set him off. She maintained that her husband grabbed the knife from the counter and held it ‘proper up in opposition to my throat however not touching my pores and skin’ after he warned, ‘Cease, do not contact the potatoes no extra.’

‘F**ok Valentine’s Day,’ Banderas mentioned on Gutfeld in February. ‘Yeah, it is silly. Even once I was married, I did not get s**t for Valentine’s Day… nicely, I am getting a divorce, I will go forward and say it proper right here for the primary time.’ 

Banderas, who joined the Fox Information Channel in 2005, serves instead weekday anchor on Outnumbered. She was awarded the ‘Excellent Single Newscast’ Emmy for her protection of the Republican Nationwide Conference in 2004

‘What the f**ok are you doing?’ Banderas mentioned she shouted, to which he replied, ‘I assumed you had a humorousness. I used to be simply kidding.’

Sansone informed the court docket that his spouse rubbed up in opposition to him, and that he informed her in a ‘playful, sarcastic approach’ to attend for dinner, gesturing with the knife from arm’s size.

The choose identified that Sansone additionally introduced a contemporaneous textual content message to the pal who gave him the recipe, with a photograph of the dish, whereas declaring the spicing was a success.

Sansone testified that his spouse sat down for dinner with the household afterwards, and later went out with associates to drink in an area bar till 2 within the morning. He claimed she twisted the harmless interplay right into a prison grievance.

Banderas testified that she didn’t eat with the household that night time and went as much as her bed room alone earlier than heading out. 

Throughout cross examination, Banderas admitted that she’d beforehand threatened to plant a ‘actually juicy story’ about her husband within the media to leverage her place within the divorce, in accordance with the choose’s recap.

‘These candid admissions is perhaps seen as bearing upon the complainant’s credibility,’ Choose Weber wrote in his July 25 ruling.

The choose additionally wrote that there have been no different witnesses to substantiate Banderas’s claims, and that ‘there was no proof of a historical past of violence or threats of violence that tends to question the defendant’s testimony.’

‘For all of those causes,’ the choose dominated, ‘the court docket finds that the Folks have did not show past an affordable doubt that the defendant possessed the steak knife with the intent to make use of the identical unlawfully in opposition to one other or to position one other in affordable concern of bodily damage or loss of life.’

Banderas, who joined the Fox Information Channel in 2005, serves instead weekday anchor on Outnumbered. She was awarded the ‘Excellent Single Newscast’ Emmy for her protection of the Republican Nationwide Conference in 2004.

She married Andrew Sansone in 2009 and the pair share three kids collectively. Banderas’s social media posts are sometimes stuffed with photographs of her kids, however little of Sansone

Sansone, 55, mentioned his spouse cooked up the story throughout their messy divorce and custody battle over their three children 

She stuffed in for Harris Faulkner on The Faulkner Deal with Monday when she defended Donald Trump in his authorized battle with particular counsel Jack Smith. 

‘It is not against the law to inform lies,’ she identified. ‘Being a narcissist is not against the law. Hatching schemes to remain in workplace is just not against the law. Claiming you received an election you realize you misplaced is just not against the law.’

When contacted by DailyMail.com she declined to touch upon the result of the court docket case.

Sansone, a monetary advisor, filed for divorce in March 2022.

Banderas introduced their break up on her Twitter account on December 9, saying her husband was her ‘quickly to be ex,’ in response to a fan telling her the couple had left them in ‘stitches.’

It was 5 days later that Sansone allegedly threatened her with the knife.

Then in February, the Fox anchor sensationally introduced reside on Gutfeld that she was getting a divorce.

The mother-of-three was seen laughing when host Greg Gutfeld requested if she was going to get something for Valentine’s Day.

‘F**ok Valentine’s Day,’ she replied, as she sat coolly along with her arm propped up on the again of the chair. ‘Yeah, it is silly. Even once I was married, I did not get s**t for Valentine’s Day… nicely, I am getting a divorce, I will go forward and say it proper right here for the primary time.

‘Congratulations are so as, if you realize me, you’d clap… That was breaking information proper there,’ joked the 18-year Fox veteran, who married Sansone in 2009.