Eric Weinberg, a tv author and producer greatest recognized for his work on “Scrubs”, has been charged with 18 counts of sexual assault.
The Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s workplace not too long ago introduced ahead the fees, based on The Hollywood Reporter. Weinberg was arrested on Tuesday and launched on a bail of $5 million. He was beforehand arrested by the Los Angeles Police Division on July 14 and held on a bail of $3.225 million for a number of expenses of sexual assault.
Greater than two dozen ladies spoke to the publication about alleged patterns of “predatory habits and misconduct” courting again to 2000, “together with claims of inappropriate conduct involving minors.”
THR wrote that Weinberg allegedly used images as a pretense to get near the alleged ladies. Weinberg reportedly “would strain them throughout shoots into taking off clothes. A number of ladies additionally described Weinberg as participating in sexual exercise with out their consent, steadily photographing the acts as they befell,” based on the outlet.
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Weinberg was arrested for the primary time in 2014 after Kayra Raecke, 22 on the time, accused him of raping her throughout a photoshoot at his Los Feliz house.
“After I had mentioned ‘no’ so many instances, he continued doing what he wished anyway,” Raecke informed the outlet. “I didn’t know what else he was able to, together with violence. I assumed there was an actual risk that I’d die there.”
Oakland-based legal professional Micha Star Liberty is representing a big group of accusers.
“On behalf of my quite a few shoppers, I’m grateful and gratified that the Distinct Legal professional’s workplace has acted swiftly with respect to Mr. Weinberg’s disgusting and damaging crimes which have eternally altered the lives of his victims,” Liberty mentioned in a press release to THR.
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“I look ahead to working to attain justice by our civil system to assist these in want of remedy and different obligatory medical remedy to treatment the numerous harm executed by Eric and others that enabled him to proceed to perpetrate abuse upon his victims.”
Weinberg’s attorneys didn’t reply to a request for remark by the publication. His divorce legal professional, Karen Silver, beforehand dismissed the allegations as “strategically positioned felony allegations” stemming from “a closely litigated and acrimonious custody dispute.”
“These claims have beforehand been investigated and reviewed by each regulation enforcement and the Los Angeles household court docket and the outcomes have continued to unveil a myriad of proof, documentation and knowledgeable evaluation that wholly undermine the narrative now being promulgated,” Silver beforehand informed THR.
“Although Mr. Weinberg himself is precluded from commenting on any facet of this litigation because of court docket orders, household regulation guidelines and in one of the best pursuits of his minor kids, he’ll proceed by counsel to cooperate in all points of this investigation and, if obligatory, will tackle these allegations in the one discussion board that ought to matter — a public courtroom.”