@Arella Mae,
Arella Mae, were you familiar with the case of the fashion designer I posted? It must have gotten a lot of publicity, but I don't remember hearing about it before. He's serving 59 years in California and his New York case is just starting. I think he also has charges pending in Texas for doing the same things. It's the most astounding case of serial acquaintance rape and serial sexual molestation I've ever read. A lot of that sort of thing must go on in Hollywood and modeling circles--all those vulnerable young women looking for their big break. But this man also used the internet to lure more victims.
What I found interesting was the fact that he was convicted mainly on he said/she said testimony. Most of those women (I think there were about 20 of them in the L.A. case) did not report their rapes or assaults after they happened, and some even continued to maintain a relationship with him, so there were questions about whether the sex was consensual. Yet, a jury was convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, by what the women said. And they faced very tough cross examination by the defense attorney (plus that terrible smear campaign to trash their characters), so they must have come across as extremely credible. All things considered, that's quite unusual.
In his NYC case I think he's also accused of drugging and using threats to coerce sex, in addition to charges similar to those he was convicted of in California.
Some people do support this man, and claim they never saw him do anything inappropriate with a female, although even his supporters seem to admit the man is an obnoxious SOB who gets people angry. He claims he's innocent, that the sex was all consensual, that none of the females were underage, and that the women were all bitter and joined in a conspiracy of lies to get revenge on him. Despite the fact he claims he passed a polygraph, which is not admissible in court, the jury didn't buy his story.
His conviction must have made a lot of men in Hollywood very nervous about their own behavior.
