Danny Masterson Rape Trial: Non-Scientologist Jane Doe #4 Allowed To Testify; No Word If Defendant Will Take Stand

Danny Masterson will not discover his fate on three counts of forcible rape until after Thanksgiving.

Mel Gibson will not be taking the strand in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it is reviewing the status of Paul Haggis’ membership after a civil trial that resulted in the director being ordered to pay $7.5 million in compensatory damages and $2.5 million in punitive damages. “The Academy will address this matter according to our Standards of Conduct and the due process requirements under California nonprofit corporation law,” the organization said in a news release.

Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape trial said Tuesday that they have decided not to move forward with four counts relating to Jane Doe #5. It means the producer now faces seven counts against the four remaining Jane Does: two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault.

Danny Masterson is a “defendant for whom no never meant no,” said Deputy LA County District Attorney Reinhold Mueller today in his closing argument in the former That ‘70s Show star’s rape trial. “If you were incapacitated in his bed, he would rape you,” the prosecutor said in a downtown LA courtroom Tuesday of the alleged incidents at Masterson’s Hollywood Hills home in the early years of the 21st century.

“He was really focused on telling me I was special, and I was different,” Jennifer Siebel Newsom told a downtown Los Angeles jury today of her first meeting with Harvey Weinstein.

Danny Masterson has decided not to take the stand in his own defense in his rape trial.

Lisa Marie Presley will not be taking the stand in Danny Masterson’s rape trial.

Dark for the past two days, Danny Masterson’s rape trial resumed Wednesday with testimony from Jane Doe #2 about the former That ‘70s Show star’s alleged assault of her in 2003. However, before the last of the trio of women at the heart of the case had her time on the stand today, the defense accused former Scientologist and The King of Queens star Leah Remini of potentially denying their client a “fair trial.”

Harvey Weinstein’s trial on rape allegations entered its second week with some discussion of how quickly the proceedings are moving.

UPDATED with afternoon session: A Los Angeles police officer testified Thursday during Danny Masterson’s rape trial that while didn’t remember the specifics of an initial meeting with Jane Doe #1 in 2004 at the LAPD Hollywood station, he did take her claims about being attacked by Masterson in his Hollywood Hills home in April 2003 “to be a sexual assault.”

Determined to expunge almost any mention of Scientology from Danny Masterson’s rape trial, defense attorney Phillip Cohen told the jury from the beginning that consistency would be core of his client’s case. That vow was very much on display Thursday as the lawyer sought to spotlight the supposed inconsistencies in the testimony of Jane Doe #3.  

A fourth Jane Doe testifying in the sexual assault civil trial of filmmaker Paul Haggis said Thursday that she was the target of an “attempted rape” by Haggis outside of her apartment building at night after an event at the Toronto Film Festival in 2015. 

Content Warning: This article touches on the topic of sexual assault which may be triggering for some readers.The jury of the high-profile rape trial of Brittany Higgins’ alleged attacker Bruce Lehrmann is deadlocked.The judge, Chief Justice Lucy McCallum, received a note from the jury at 3pm this afternoon that said they are ‘unable to agree’ on a unanimous verdict.WATCH NOW: Lisa Wilkinson interviews Brittany Higgins on The ProjectConsisting of eight women and four men, the jury have been deliberating for five days in the ACT Supreme Court trying to determine whether Lehrmann was guilty of one count of sexual intercourse without consent.The jury have been asked to retire again to see if they can decide on a verdict by Justice McCallum.“I have the power to discharge you but I should only do so if satisfied after examining one or more of you that you are not likely to agree.”“Experience has shown juries often are able to agree in the end if they are given more time to consider the evidence. 'I ask you to retire again to see if you can reach a verdict in this trial,” Justice McCallum said. The jury of Higgins' (pictured above) accused rapist, Ben Lehrmann, have said they are 'unable to agree' on a verdict.However, she also reminded jurors of the oath they swore before the trial began and implored them to only hand a verdict down if they genuinely believed it was the right decision.“You each take in your personal experience and wisdom and you are expected to judge the evidence fairly in that light.

A model-actress, identified as Jane Doe #1, resumed her account of a 2013 encounter with Harvey Weinstein, telling jurors that she “wanted to die” as he sexually assaulted her in her hotel room bathroom.

“She had told me not to use the word rape,” a visibly shaken Jane Doe #3 told a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday in the Danny Masterson trial. “She explained to me that you can’t rape someone you are in a relationship with,” the witness went on to say of a late 2003 conversation with a Scientology executive at the church’s Celebrity Centre in Hollywood.

A Los Angeles prosecutor told jurors on Monday that multiple accusers will provide graphic and violent accounts of being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, as the producer faced his second criminal trial.

The beginning of the second week of testimony in Danny Masterson’s rape trial hurtled towards another request from the defense for a mistrial.