‘Scrubs’ Co-EP Eric Weinberg Hit With Dual Sexual Assault Lawsuits; Producer Behind Bars On 18 Counts Of Rape
09.11.2022 - 00:05
/ deadline.com
Currently incarcerated in downtown Los Angeles on 18 criminal counts of rape, former Scrubs co-executive producer Eric Weinberg has now been sued by two different women in civil court for sexual assault.
“Plaintiff C.D. suffered physical, emotional, and economic harm as a result of Weinberg’s assault, and brings this action for sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligence,” says one of the filings made late yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Weinberg (read it here). Describing the alleged 2019 rape in the producer’s LA home in graphic detail, the jury trial seeking complaint asks for wide-ranging, but unspecified damages.
Initially arrested by LAPD in July on multiple rape charges strewn from 2012 to 2019, Weinberg was first released on a $3.2 million bail bond. Later upped to $5 million, that bail was revoked, and Weinberg was taken into custody on October 25 after pleading not guilty at his DTLA arraignment. “The defendant has engaged in a pattern of violence for at least six years,” said Judge Victoria B. Wilson over the objections of Philip Cohen and other members of Weinberg’s defense team who were present. The LASC judge went on to call Weinberg a potential “serial rapist” and termed his decades of vile behavior as “brazen and predatory.”
Held in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown LA, Weinberg is next scheduled to have a hearing in his criminal case on November 15. Looking at a stretch of up to 100 years in state prison if found guilty, the ex-Californication EP is facing six counts of sexual penetration by use of force, four counts of oral copulation, three counts of forcible rape,
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