{"id":21144,"date":"2023-05-31T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/that-70s-show-actor-danny-masterson-found-guilty-of-rape\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:46:20","slug":"that-70s-show-actor-danny-masterson-found-guilty-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/that-70s-show-actor-danny-masterson-found-guilty-of-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"That &#8217;70s Show actor Danny Masterson found guilty of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Los Angeles (AFP) \u2013 US actor and Scientologist <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/danny-masterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Danny Masterson<\/strong><\/a> on Wednesday was found guilty of raping two women at his home in the Hollywood Hills.<\/p>\n<p>The star of television\u2019s \u201cThat \u201970s Show\u201d and \u201cThe Ranch\u201d was convicted of two counts of forcible rape between 2001 and 2003, while jurors at a Los Angeles courthouse said they were deadlocked on a third rape charge.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second rape trial for Masterson, after previous proceedings were declared a mistrial last November when a different jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Masterson was taken into custody following the verdict, and is awaiting sentencing. He could face 30 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, now 47, rose to fame with the 1998 launch of retro sitcom \u201cThat \u201970s Show,\u201d where he played the character of Steven Hyde alongside fellow stars Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He co-starred again with Kutcher on Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Ranch,\u201d but was fired in 2017 and written off the show after Los Angeles police confirmed they were investigating multiple rape allegations against the actor.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors at the time dropped two further sexual assault cases against Masterson over lack of evidence and the statute of limitations passing.<\/p>\n<p>During closing arguments earlier this month, prosecutors said Masterson \u201cdrugged and raped each one of these victims\u201d and called on the jury to hold him \u201caccountable for what he has done.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three alleged victims were also members of the Church of Scientology at the time, and Masterson met them through the secretive group. Two of them said church officials had discouraged them from contacting law enforcement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post thumbnail-seealso post-78874 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-breaking category-celebrity category-featured tag-gwyneth-paltrow tag-legal-matters tag-terry-sanderson mv-content-wrapper thb-post-share-style2\"> <span class=\"thb-seealso-text\">See Also<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-gallery\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/jury-finds-gwyneth-paltrow-was-not-at-fault-for-2016-hit-and-run-ski-accident-awards-actress-1-in-damages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Masterson\u2019s lawyers in his closing argument questioned why the court had heard \u201cso much about Scientology,\u201d and the defense has suggested that bias against the Church could have been a motivating factor.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Scientology did not immediately respond to AFP request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The jury deliberated around seven days. The third rape charge, on which no verdict was reached, involved a former longtime girlfriend of Masterson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/that-70s-show-actor-danny-masterson-found-guilty-of-rape\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=that-70s-show-actor-danny-masterson-found-guilty-of-rape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles (AFP) \u2013 US actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson on Wednesday was found guilty of raping two women at his home in the Hollywood Hills. The star of television\u2019s \u201cThat \u201970s Show\u201d and \u201cThe Ranch\u201d was convicted of two counts of forcible rape between 2001 and 2003, while jurors at a Los Angeles courthouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}