Alex Murdaugh allegedly choked and beat his ex-girlfriend, Morgan Doughty, and once had his family help him cover up a serious drunk driving crash in 2017, according to an explosive new documentary.Doughty, 23, spoke out for the first time about the alleged abuse at the hands of Paul Murdaugh, 22, in the Netflix documentary "Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal."The three-part series aired Wednesday during the fifth week of Murdaugh's double-murder trial in Walterboro, South Carolina.
The disgraced scion of a once-powerful legal dynasty is accused of fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, 52, and youngest son Paul in June 2021. ALEX MURDAUGH: TIMELINE OF ONCE-POWERFUL SOUTH CAROLINA LAWYER'S SPECTACULAR DOWNFALLDoughty, who began dating Paul in high school, said he attacked her one night when they were staying in a hotel to celebrate his brother Buster's graduation."He had been so intoxicated," she recalled. "We had finally gotten to bed and for some reason Paul kept, like, kicking me.
I yelled at him, and then he got on top of me, and I just remember him screaming, ‘I told you to shut up,’ just holding down my throat.
I just remember then he, like, punched me really hard in the knee right here."Doughty broke down in tears as she recounted the harrowing assault.Morgan Doughty in an interview for the Netflix documentary "Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal." (Courtesy of Netflix) The family's nanny and housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, warned her about Paul before she died in an alleged slip-and-fall at the Murdaugh's hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina."Gloria was like, ‘You know how he is, and you’re just either going to have to learn how to deal with his temper, or you need to get out,’" Doughty said.Murdaugh.