“That ’70s Show” and “The Ranch” star Danny Masterson was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for raping two women nearly 20 years ago. The sentence was announced by a judge of the court of Los Angeles, in the United States.
Victims claim Masterson drugged and raped them in separate incidents between 2001 and 2003 at his Hollywood home.
The 47-year-old actor, who is also a Scientologist, was convicted in June of the two rapes in a second trial. The first, in November last year, was annulled because another jury had not been able to reach a unanimous decision.
The case drew attention in part because Masterson met the women through the Church of Scientology, and her accusers claimed the organization discouraged them from contacting the authorities.
The Church of Scientology denied this allegation and stated that Masterson’s religion should not have been an issue in the case.
Masterson rose to fame with the 1998 premiere of “That ’70s Show”, in which he played Steven Hyde and shared the screen with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher. He reteamed with Kutcher on Netflix’s “The Ranch”, but was fired in 2017 when he was first accused of sexually assaulting multiple women, and his character was written out of the plot.
Source: Folha
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