Los Angeles District Lawyer George Gascon stands by a photograph of TV producer Eric Weinberg throughout a information convention to announce sexual assault prices in opposition to Weinberg on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles District Lawyer George Gascon stands by a photograph of TV producer Eric Weinberg throughout a information convention to announce sexual assault prices in opposition to Weinberg on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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LOS ANGELES — Eric Weinberg, an govt producer and author for the hit TV present “Scrubs” and lots of others, has been charged with sexually assaulting 5 ladies whom he lured to photograph shoots and probably many extra, Los Angeles County prosecutors introduced Wednesday.
Weinberg, 62, was arrested Tuesday, practically per week after he was charged with 18 felony counts together with rape, oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration, sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment by use of violence, assault by way of drive prone to trigger nice bodily harm and tried forcible penetration with a international object, in keeping with the district lawyer’s workplace.
He was launched that day on a $5 million bond. His arraignment was scheduled for Oct. 25.
An electronic mail to an agent for Weinberg searching for remark wasn’t instantly returned.
Weinberg was charged for alleged assaults between 2014 and 2019, however investigators say they consider there could also be different victims of assaults relationship again to the Nineteen Nineties, District Lawyer George Gascón stated at a information convention.
He urged them to come back ahead.
“The defendant relied on his Hollywood credentials to lure younger ladies for photograph shoots the place he allegedly sexually assaulted them,” Gascón stated. “Energy and affect can corrupt some to harm others, that usually results in a lifetime of trauma for many who are victimized.”
LAPD Detective Ryan Lamar stated investigators have been wanting into info acquired from a tip line concerning attainable different assaults by Weinberg.
Weinberg was beforehand investigated a number of occasions by police, however the DA’s workplace did not file prices for lack of proof, Gascón stated.
Weinberg was co-executive producer on practically 100 episodes of the NBC hospital dramedy “Scrubs” between 2000 and 2006 and likewise wrote practically a dozen episodes, in keeping with the IMDB web site.
He additionally was co-executive producer for “Californication” in 2007 and had producing and writing credit on different exhibits, together with “Anger Administration,” “Males at Work,” “Veronica’s Closet” and “Politically Incorrect with Invoice Maher.”
In 2020, paperwork filed in Weinberg’s divorce and youngster custody proceedings included allegations by three ladies that he sexually assaulted them throughout photograph shoots, the Los Angeles Occasions reported.
One lady alleged that she met Weinberg at a North Hollywood espresso store in 2014 when she was 22 and he satisfied her to come back to a photograph shoot at his house the place she stripped to her underwear. The lady alleged that whereas taking images, Weinberg grabbed her, compelled to carry out oral intercourse, choked her after which raped her, in keeping with paperwork cited by the Occasions.
