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The “That ’70s Show” star, 47, was found guilty in late May on two of three counts of rape, and was taken into custody following the verdict. The jury was deadlocked on the third count.
May 31, 2023 · LOS ANGELES — “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson was convicted on two counts of rape Wednesday at his retrial in Los Angeles. The seven-woman, five-man jury could not reach a verdict on a...
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- Diana Dasrath,Corky Siemaszko
- What’s Next For Masterson
- Direct Discussion of Drugging
- A Bigger Role For Scientology
- The Defendant
- The First Accuser
- The Second Accuser
- The Third Accuser
- Investigation and Arrest
- The First Trial
The actor will remain in custody while he awaits sentencing, which hasn’t been scheduled yet. The women Masterson is convicted of raping could give victim impact statements during the sentencing hearing, and the judge is likely to hear from Masterson supporters. Masterson’s lawyers didn’t address the verdict immediately after it happened, but they’...
A judge in the second trial allowed the prosecution to say directly that Masterson drugged all three womenbefore raping them, in what may be the biggest difference from the first trial. Previously, the drugging could only be implied when the women testified to feeling disoriented, losing memory and going unconscious to a degree that could not be ex...
The Church of Scientology loomed large at Masterson’s trial. It played a bigger role in his retrial, with Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowing expert testimony on Scientology that she denied the first time. Masterson is a prominent member of the church. All three of his accusers are former members who grew disillusioned with the institution in the after...
Masterson, 47, an actor since childhood, got his major break when he was cast as Stephen Hyde on the retro sitcom “That ‘70s Show,” which also starred Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Topher Grace and would run on Fox from 1998 until 2006. At the time of the alleged assaults, his career was at its peak, and his house near Hollywood with a backyard po...
One of the women Masterson is convicted of raping was born into a Scientology family and was part of Masterson’s circle of friends. Nearly all of those closest to her were members, including the late Lisa Marie Presley, who also left the church long before her death in January. The woman said that when she stopped by Masterson’s house to pick up a ...
A model and actor who was Masterson’s girlfriend from 1996 to 2002 took the stand to open the trial. She previously testified that Masterson grew increasingly physically and sexually abusive in their years together. She said that it eventually led to him raping her twice late in 2001, though he is only charged with one instance, a morning when she ...
The third woman at the center of the trial had only recently met Masterson through mutual friends in the church, which she had joined as a teenager. She testified that in 2003 that Masterson invited her to his house, where they were alone. She said she was clear that she wanted no sex, but he convinced her to get into his jacuzzi then took her to h...
Police revealed they were investigating Masterson in March of 2017. Hollywood’s #MeToo firestorm would begin about six months later, and in the midst of it Masterson would be written off “The Ranch,”a Netflix Western comedy where he had reunited with Kutcher. He was arrested and chargedwith three rapes in 2020, and in 2021 a judge ruled the evidenc...
Masterson’s monthlong first trialbegan last October. Masterson, free on bail, was accompanied to court by a large group of friends and family with ties to both Scientology and the entertainment industry, including his wife and the mother of his child, actor and model Bijou Phillips. In the end, fewer than half of jurors voted to convicton any of th...
May 31, 2023 · LOS ANGELES — A jury found "That '70s Show" star Danny Masterson guilty of two out of three counts of rape Wednesday in a Los Angeles retrial in which the Church of Scientology played a...
Sep 7, 2023 · US actor Danny Masterson has been sentenced to serve 30 years to life in prison for raping two women. Masterson starred on That '70s Show, a TV series that was airing at the time of his...
May 21, 2021 · May 21, 2021, 9:17 PM UTC. By The Associated Press. LOS ANGELES - A judge on Friday ordered “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson to stand trial on three counts of rape, stemming from...
Apr 25, 2023 · Published 5:38 PM PDT, April 24, 2023. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Danny Masterson drugged then raped three women at his Hollywood-area home between 2001 and 2003, a prosecutor told jurors Monday in his opening statement in the retrial of the star of “That ’70s Show.”
