Redondo Beach Man Ordered to Stand Trial Allegedly Killing Reality TV Personality

TORRANCE, CA - A Redondo Beach man was ordered Friday to stand trial for the stabbing death of his live-in girlfriend, a onetime Los Angeles police officer-turned-attorney and reality TV personality.

Superior Court Judge T.K. Herman found sufficient evidence to require 52- year-old Robert Reagan to proceed to trial on a murder charge and knife use allegation in the July 22, 2015, death of Loredani Nesci.

Reagan is free on bond while awaiting arraignment April 22 at the Torrance courthouse.

After Reagan was charged last summer, defense attorney Shepard Kopp called the case "a terrible tragedy" and alleged that Nesci, a "former LAPD officer, highly trained in the use of deadly weapons," attacked Reagan with a hunting knife.

"She was also an avid body builder, and was exceptionally strong," Kopp said last summer. "She attacked Robert with a hunting knife in the midst of a domestic dispute. While defending himself against her assault with a deadly weapon, Robert tried to disarm her, and in the intense struggle that ensued she tragically suffered a fatal wound."

He said his client was "devastated by this horrible event."

Officers were sent to the residence the couple shared on an emergency call from a "distraught" man, later identified as Reagan, and discovered the 47-year-old victim dead inside.

Nesci was the star of "Loredana, Esq.," a 2014 reality show on Sundance TV that documented her home life and career as an attorney.

Reagan appeared on the six-episode series, which documented the couple's struggle with mounting bills and arguments over the care of their young son while he was traveling to develop a beverage business.

Nesci became an LAPD officer in 1996, according to her website, and left two years later to attend law school. She opened her own law practice in 2004.

--City News Service, photo courtesy of Sundance Channel