A Meriden native who worked at two Connecticut law firms before moving to California and starring in a reality television show has died. Police say Loredana Nesci, who billed herself as the “Legal Diva,” was found dead Wednesday in the Redondo Beach, California, home she shared with her longtime boyfriend and father of her child.

The man, Robert Reagan, 51, was questioned by officers and then charged with the homicide, according to published reports. “This just highlights how serious domestic violence is. You never expect to get this call,” Sal Nesci, the attorney’s brother and a Meriden police lieutenant, told the Meriden Record-Journal newspaper.