Public Safety
Darien Actor Sues Alleged Assailant & Bar Owner After Injuries at Chez Ernie’s
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A Darien man, who’s gone through three surgeries costing more than $100,000 after he was punched and knocked to the floor at Chez Ernie’s bar, is now suing the man arrested in the incident as well as the bar and bar owner. Matthew Porretta, 51, an actor who’s appeared in films, on television and on Broadway, didn’t know the alleged assailant, Christopher Aikler, 43, of Bayne Street in Norwalk. Porretta doesn’t even know why the man would have hit him with the glass beer mug. According to the lawsuit, filed last month in state Superior Court in Stamford, Porretta came near Aikler when Aikler hit him on the left side of his face with a beer mug, causing the mug to shatter. The force of the blow “caused Matthew Porretta to be propelled backwards into a high top table, striking the back of his head and causing him to fall to the ground.”