‘Scrubs’ Co-EP Eric Weinberg Charged With18 Counts Of Sexual Assault – Deadline

UPDATED with particulars from information convention, 3:51 PM: Los Angeles District Legal professional George Gascón gave extra particulars in regards to the Eric Weinberg case throughout a information convention right now, outlining the 18-count indictment for expenses together with rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment by violence.

“The defendant relied on his Hollywood credentials to lure younger ladies for picture 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 individuals who are victimized.”

Veteran TV producer and author Weinberg’s arraignment is ready for October 25.

The fees embody  six counts of sexual penetration by use of pressure, 4 counts of oral copulation, three counts of forcible rape, two counts of sexual battery by restraint and one rely every of assault by way of pressure more likely to trigger nice bodily damage, tried sexual penetration by use of pressure and false imprisonment by violence.

Based on the indictment, on two separate events in 2014, Weinberg approached two ladies at public areas and advised them he was a photographer. In every occasion, he was in communication with the victims who ultimately went to his dwelling the place he’s accused of sexually assaulting them.

In 2017, the indictment reads, the defendant used the identical ruse to convey a younger girl again to his home the place he allegedly sexually assaulted her. Weinberg is also accused of sexually assaulting two ladies in separate incidents in 2018 and 2019.

Learn extra particulars of the case beneath.

PREVIOUSLY, 11:53 AM: Veteran TV producer and author Eric Weinberg has been charged with 18 counts of sexual assault by Los Angeles County prosecutors, Deadline has confirmed.

Weinberg, the long-serving Scrubs co-executive producer, who initially was arrested in July and launched on $3.225 million bond, was re-arrested Tuesday and later launched on $5 million bond.

The fees relate to a sequence of rapes that the police say occurred between 2012 and 2019. As we beforehand reported, in response to the LAPD, Weinberg predatorily singled out ladies of their 20s and 30s “in grocery shops, espresso retailers and different public locations” and would attempt to persuade them to take part in a photograph shoot. If the ladies agreed to have their image taken by Weinberg, his modus operandi was to rape them through the secluded session at his dwelling.

Amongst his many credit up till the tip of the primary decade of the twenty first century, Weinberg was co-EP for greater than 100 episodes of Scrubs through the comedy’s 2001-07 run on NBC and later ABC. The five-time Emmy nominee additionally served as supervising producer and author on about one other two dozen episodes of the sequence. His most up-to-date credit score was in 2016 as govt producer on Epix comedy sequence Graves.

Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.