It’s a wild 2026 for podcaster Adam22 and his wife Lena the Plug—and on Thursday, they finally caught a break in the weirdest legal saga the internet has seen in months.
Adam22 and his wife, Lena The Plug, showed up to court to fight the fake restraining order filed against him. The hearing was held on Thursday, during which Adam22 and Lena spoke via Zoom. And when it mattered most, the judge sided with them. Per the minute order, Lena told the judge that she did not file the restraining order, despite it being taken out in her name. She asked the court to dismiss the temporary restraining order which prohibited Adam22 from coming near his wife. The judge signed off on the request and dissolved the temporary order. One down. But this story didn’t start on Thursday—it’s been a months-long identity-theft nightmare.
Rewind to early June. A divorce petition was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on June 3, which claimed Lena was asking for a divorce from Adam22. Except Lena wasn’t the one filing. She had no idea. “Someone who is not me has been trying to file for divorce on my behalf,” Lena said in a video. They have been forging her signature—and she claimed she knew who they were because their name appeared on a check sent to her house. But here’s where it gets even messier: a mystery man was filing these fake documents, and Lena believes the man is being catfished by a person pretending to be her, with the catfish telling the man that she is in danger due to Adam22, but Lena says this is not true.
Then came July. A restraining order petition was filed on July 23 in Los Angeles Court by someone claiming to be Lena. The petition asked for a temporary order barring Adam22 from coming near Lena, claiming Adam22 has her perform sex acts with men outside of their marriage for money. It got worse: The fake petition asked that Adam22 be forced to surrender all of Lena’s social media accounts, including his wife’s OnlyFans accounts. And initially, the court granted it. The court actually granted the fake restraining order for the fake Lena. Adam22 was legally prohibited from being near his wife—at their own house.
This isn’t random internet drama. Adam22 was served with legal papers at his $3 million mansion in Studio City, CA. He said he wanted the police or FBI to intervene in the matter, but hasn’t heard back from any agency. Lena has filed a police report for identity theft and is working with a lawyer to dismiss the fraudulent divorce filing. It’s cybercrime meets family court—and the target is a couple with real assets, real influence, and a very real 5-year-old in the middle of it.
What makes this stick is the psychology. Lena has maintained that her marriage with Adam22 is strong and is denying any intention of divorcing. The whole setup was designed to exploit one thing: online rumors. Things got complicated when Adam22 let Blacked star Jason Luv have sex with Lena, and he got ridiculed by the internet for it. Luv said after one of the shoots that he was ‘obviously’ a better lover than Adam. So when these fake filings dropped claiming Lena was trapped in an abusive relationship forced into sex work, people BELIEVED it. The catfish exploited real-world friction and sold it as proof of the marriage falling apart. It almost worked.
The 16BARS take: Thursday’s dismissal is a W, but this case shows how dangerous the internet’s obsession with celebrity relationships can get. A fake divorce. A fake restraining order. A man catfished into becoming a legal weapon. Lena and Adam still have to deal with the actual divorce filing and take down whoever’s behind this. But at least they won the battle that mattered—the one that tried to tear them apart in court.
