Though they were officially divorced in 2006, the bitter, three-year battle between Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen over custody of their two daughters ratcheted up another notch Wednesday morning, when Richards appeared on the Today show – along with a previously never-seen e-mail in which Richards purportedly requested a sperm donation from Sheen, after their split.

Richards labeled the e-mail – which purportedly had been sent to Sheen's then-girlfriend and now-fiancée Brooke Mueller – as bogus.
"That e-mail is not legitimate," Richards, 37, told interviewer Matt Lauer. "It's a doctored e-mail. I would never send an e-mail to his ... girlfriend, and, at the time of that e-mail, I was with Richie [Sambora]. If I wanted anybody's sperm, I'd have asked for Richie's."

Sheen's defenders point out that Denise was not with Sambora at the time – the pair broke up around mid-March, while the e-mail to Mueller was dated April 3. "Richie and Denise were absolutely not together then," says a source familiar with the situation. "If you're going to lie, at least get a calendar to keep the dates straight."

On the Today show, Richards said that at the time of the alleged e-mail she had just found out that her mother was dying, so she was not interested in getting pregnant – "especially with my ex-husband," said Richards. (Her mother, Joni Richards, died in November 2007.)
The email purportedly included Richards telling Mueller: "Charlie and I have very beautiful healthy children together. I was strictly looking for a sperm donor if it's any of your business."

Source: http://www.people.com/