There was at least one And Just Like That star who was equally surprised to learn that Kim Cattrall would be reprising her role as Samantha Jones for season 2.
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entire closing argument Wednesday, focusing on inconsistencies in the stories of each of the three victims, all former Scientologists, and suggesting they were in cahoots to lash out at the church and win a separate civil lawsuit.Los Angeles prosecutors chose to re-try Masterson after a hung jury and mistrial last November. This time around, prosecutors focused more on the allegation that Masterson had drugged his victims, calling a date-rape-drug expert witnesses and saying outright – as opposed to merely inferring, as they did in the first trial – that the “That ’70s Show” star slipped his victims an intoxicant.“This defendant drugged and raped each of these victims,” Mueller said Wednesday.
“That’s the reasonable conclusion. And that word (reasonable) … I want you to keep that in mind.
It’s not reasonable that there was (evolving victims’ stories), it’s not reasonable that there was a conspiracy – the evidence doesn’t support any of that. So when you get back in the jury room, you must reject that.
And you’re left with only one reasonable conclusion, that he drugged and raped these victims.”Several of Masterson’s family members, including wife Bijou Phillips, were present in the courtroom, which was quieter than usual Wednesday – but no less colorful. Defense attorney Philip Cohen, well-known for his flamboyant sartorial choices, drew “cat-calls” upon entering Wednesday morning, on account of his metallic purple three-piece suit, porkpie hat with matching brim, white shirt and pink pocket square.Judge Olmedo pointed out that one of the district attorney’s investigators had correctly picked “purple” in an office pool.“Got a few cat-calls this morning,” Cohen said.“Just guessing here, did you go to school with a uniform
.There was at least one And Just Like That star who was equally surprised to learn that Kim Cattrall would be reprising her role as Samantha Jones for season 2.
When guilty verdicts were announced in "That ‘70s Show" star Danny Masterson’s rape retrial Wednesday, the actor's wife, model Bijou Phillips, gasped. Her husband of nearly 12 years was found guilty on two counts of forcible rape; the jury was hung on a third charge. Phillips wept while Masterson was taken away in handcuffs from a Los Angeles courtroom. Masterson, 47, could face 30 years to life in prison.
found guilty of raping two women. The “That ’70s Show” actor, a longtime Scientologist, could be looking at 30 years to life in prison when his sentencing takes place in August.“I was incredibly relieved,” Headley, who testified for the prosecution, told The Post. “I am incredibly grateful that justice was served for these women who persisted through an awful lot.”A Los Angeles jury found Masterson, 47, guilty on two of three felony rape charges.
The Mars Volta‘s Cedric Bixler-Zavala has issued a response after actor and longtime Scientologist Danny Masterson was found guilty of two counts of rape.Masterson — who was most famed for his role as Steven Hyde in That ’70s Show — was found guilty of two out of the three accusations of rape made against him in a Los Angeles retrial yesterday (May 31).Now, following the verdict, Cedric Bixler-Zavala has spoken out about the disgraced actor and the Church Of Scientology.The musician and At The Drive-In icon left the church back in 2017 after first joining back in 2009. His wife, Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, had also testified against Masterson back in 2022, and previously issued a separate civil lawsuit against him.According to the civil case, Carnell-Bixler’s relationship with Masterson lasted for several years, and he sexually assaulted her multiple times between the period of 2001 and 2002.Responding to the accusations with The Hollywood Reporter, Masterson issued a statement saying: “I’m not going to fight my ex-girlfriend in the media like she’s been baiting me to do for more than two years.
Danny Masterson's wife, Bijou Phillips, was inside the courtroom when the star was found guilty of rape in his Los Angeles retrial Wednesday. Masterson was found guilty of two counts of rape against two women who were former members of the Church of Scientology, of which Masterson is also a member.Phillips let out a wail as the verdict was read aloud Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, some six weeks after the retrial started. Judge Charlaine F.
The jury in the rape trial of Danny Masterson has rendered a verdict, finding the “That ’70s Show” alum to be guilty on two counts of forcible rape.
Danny Masterson was convicted on two counts of forcible rape after his second trial on charges that he sexually assaulted several women in the early 2000s.
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Danny Masterson has been found guilty of two counts of forcible rape against two women who were also former members of the Church of Scientology, of which the star is also a member.The verdict was read Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, some six weeks after the retrial started. While the embattled actor was found guilty on two counts, the jury deadlocked on the third count of rape.
Jesse Collins Entertainment President Dionne Harmon announced today that John Wehage has joined the company as Executive Vice President, Head of Production of the full-service Emmy-winning production company. Karen Grant-Selma will lead the company’s in-house legal team as Executive Vice President, Head of Business & Legal Affairs. Both will report to Harmon.
Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are not quite a couple — not officially, anyway — but maybe they're trying the old adage on for size.Mendes and Cabello were spotted on Thursday taking yet another stroll in New York City, but this time they looked like a mixed doubles team ready to tear it up on the tennis court. Cabello donned a tight black T-shirt with a black skirt over tights underneath.
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LOS ANGELES — Danny Masterson drugged women’s drinks so he could rape them, then relied on his prominence in the Church of Scientology to avoid consequences for years, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in closing arguments at the actor’s trial.
Jurors in Danny Masterson’s rape retrial are expected to begin deliberations Wednesday morning after lawyers wrap up closing arguments in the case against the former “That ’70s Show” star.
hung jury and mistrial last November.This time around, prosecutors focused more on the allegation that Masterson somehow drugged his victims, brining on expert witnesses and saying outright – as opposed to merely inferring – that the “That ’70s Show” star used some kind of date-rape drug to get “control” of his victims.“It all starts with a drink. How many times have you hear the defendant give a drink to an unsusepecting victim?” Anson said to begin her closing statement.
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Closing arguments are expected to begin Tuesday at the second trial of "That ’70s Show" actor Danny Masterson, who is charged with raping three women at his Los Angeles home between 2001 and 2003. Attorneys for both sides rested their cases Friday, three weeks into the trial. Masterson's defense attorneys declined to call any witnesses.
three different women told jurors that Masterson raped them at his Los Angeles home in separate – but chillingly similar – incidents between 2001 and 2003. A fourth Jane Doe had also testified as a support witness, but her allegations were not among the charges.Masterson must be convicted on at least two of the three charged cases, in order to clear a California statute-of-limitations bar.
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