Danny Masterson of That ’70s Show charged with raping 3 women

The District Attorney’s Office explained in a assertion that it experienced declined to file sexual assault charges versus Masterson in two other cases simply because of inadequate proof and simply because of the statute of limitations.

It’s not apparent no matter whether Masterson has been taken into custody.

He is billed with raping a 23-12 months-aged lady in 2001, a 28-12 months-aged lady in early 2003 and a 23-12 months-aged lady in late 2003.

Masterson’s lawyer, Tom Mesereau, explained his shopper “is harmless, we’re self-confident that he will be exonerated when all the proof eventually comes to gentle and witnesses have the possibility to testify.”

“Certainly, Mr. Masterson and his wife are in total shock thinking about that these nearly twenty-12 months aged allegations are suddenly resulting in charges getting submitted, but they and their spouse and children are comforted realizing that in the long run the truth will appear out,” Mesereau explained in a assertion.

“The people today who know Mr. Masterson know his character and know the allegations to be false.”

Masterson, who has been married to actress Bijou Phillips because 2011, was penned out of the Netflix comedy sequence The Ranch in December 2017 when a police investigation on the allegations versus him initially arrived to gentle.

Dozens of actors, politicians, businessmen and musicians have shed their positions because 2017 when sexual assault allegations versus Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein fuelled the #MeToo motion. Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault in February and sentenced to 23 decades at the rear of bars.