Eric Weinberg, a co-executive producer and author for the 2000s TV comedy Scrubs, was arrested once more on Tuesday and charged with 18 counts of sexual abuse and assault by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The arrest was made days after fees — together with rape, oral copulation, sexual battery, false imprisonment, assault by means to trigger nice bodily hurt and six counts of forcible penetration by a international object — had been filed. He was taken into custody Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. and he was launched after posting $5 million bail by midnight.
District Attorney George Gascón is anticipated to carry a press conference later this afternoon to element the fees towards Weinberg, who additionally was a producer on Showtime’s Californication and FX’s Anger Management.
Weinberg was initially arrested in July over fees together with rape, allegedly dedicated between 2012 and 2019. He was launched after posting $3,225,000 bail.
At that point, Los Angeles Police Department investigators mentioned Weinberg appeared to have focused girls of their 20s and 30s in grocery shops, espresso retailers and different public locations claiming to be a photographer. He allegedly arrange photoshoots with them at his residence the place he “would sexually assault them.” Authorities sought further unidentified victims — way back to the early ’90s — urging them to come back ahead.
The Hollywood Reporter spoke to some of his accusers for a narrative that ran on Sept. 1. More than two dozen girls alleged a sample of predatory habits and misconduct going again a long time. Some of the allegations, as early as 2000 when he labored on Scrubs, included claims of inappropriate conduct involving minors.
Many of the ladies mentioned Weinberg, who obtained 5 Emmy nominations for his work on Scrubs and Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher, used his Hollywood resume to determine credibility and then pressured them throughout shoots into taking off their clothes. Multiple girls alleged nonconsensual sexual exercise and claimed he incessantly photographed them throughout it.
Weinberg beforehand averted related fees. He was arrested in 2014 when then 22-year-old Kayra Raecke alleged to LAPD that he had raped her throughout a photoshoot at his residence. Raecke claimed Weinberg choked her with one hand and took pictures with the opposite. She instructed authorities she thought she could die in the course of the alleged assault. The deputy district legal professional on the time declined to prosecute, citing “insufficient evidence.”
In 2016, legislation enforcement advisable fees towards Weinberg for a distinct alleged nonconsensual sexual encounter with an unidentified girl. Again, the district legal professional declined to cost as a result of there was “no evidence that the defendant used force, threats or intimidation.”
The Hollywood Reporter‘s story mentioned Weinberg stored data of his encounters. In 2008, his then-wife Hilary Bidwell, allegedly discovered nude pictures and papers with names and numbers of lots of of girls, many of them accompanied by places — like grocery retailer, library, health club — the place they met. He mentioned they had been from previous headshot shoots he would do. They separated once more after Raecke’s allegation however did not formally divorce. Then in 2020, she began proceedings after a girls reached out to her alleging Weinberg was inappropriate with her minor daughter.
That drove Bidwell to rent a personal investigation agency to see if there have been different accusers. She found a Facebook publish by artist Claire Wilson cautioning girls towards Weinberg, whom she accused of sexually assaulting her after they met on OKCupid. Other girls commented recounting their very own alleged encounters with Weinberg. Several accusers have since banded collectively and retained an legal professional.
Weinberg denied the allegations, beforehand releasing a press release to THR by means of his divorce lawyer, saying they stem from his bitter divorce.
“As we now have sadly seen today, time and once more, a closely litigated and acrimonious custody dispute has now given rise to strategically positioned legal allegations,” he said. “These claims have beforehand been investigated and reviewed by each legislation enforcement and the Los Angeles household courtroom and the outcomes wholly undermine the narrative now being promulgated. Though Mr. Weinberg himself is precluded from commenting on any side of this litigation attributable to courtroom orders, household legislation guidelines and in the most effective pursuits of his minor youngsters, he’ll proceed by means of counsel to cooperate in all features of this investigation and, if mandatory, will handle these allegations in the one discussion board that ought to matter — a public courtroom.”
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