Jurors heard opening statements Monday in the retrial of actor Danny Masterson, who is charged with raping three women between 2001 and 2003 at his Hollywood Hills home.
of three women between 2001 and 2003, while the entertainer's attorney questioned the statements made by the women.
Masterson, now 47, was charged in 2020 with three counts of rape by force or fear involving the three women on separate alleged occasions.The prosecutor said jurors will also hear from a fourth woman who alleges she was raped by Masterson after he handed her a mixed drink and she began feeling "dizzy" and "light-headed" during a wrap party in Toronto for the movie "Dracula 2000." He is not charged with a crime involving that woman, Mueller noted.
"And they're here to seek justice," Mueller said, telling the jury that he is confidence that "each of you will be able to render guilty verdicts." The defense lawyer said the three women had ignored repeated admonitions by a Los Angeles Police Department detective not to talk to each other out of concern that it could contaminate the case, and said the fourth woman came forward about two decades later only after the case involving the other three women, including Masterson's former live-in girlfriend.
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