Report: Slava Voynov's wife refuses to testify, threatened with Contempt charge.

Marta Varlamova, wife of L.A Kings defenseman Slava Voynov, may find herself in some legal trouble after making her first court appearance in her husband's domestic violence case. In a pretrial hearing on Monday, Varlamova stated she did  not want to testify against her husband who allegedly beat her late last year. Judge Eric Taylor warned her that she may be found in contempt of court and fined under $1,000 if she won’t answer questions about the assault. Varlamova opted to seek domestic violence counseling through the NHLPA to see if she might change her mind about testifying. “I’d prefer not to find her in contempt if we can give her a chance to decide if she is willing to testify,” Taylor said, per the Daily Breeze. He also warned that this might end up having an impact on her immigration status. Voynov was suspended indefinitely by the NHL after he allegedly smashed Varlamova's face into a flat-screen television during an incident on Oct. 19. She was hospitalized and needed eight stitches to close a gash above her eye. Despite Varlamova reportedly telling hospital workers and police that this wasn’t the first time this has happened, both Voynov’s attorneys and his wife’s lawyer, Michael Walsh, have claimed that her injuries were caused by an accident. Walsh penned a memo in March stating that Varlamova has “legitimate concerns about her privacy and her personal well-being and desires to avoid the emotional trauma, embarrassment and destruction of her privacy that would result from being compelled to testify in this case.”