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 girls that he lured to picture shoots and there could possibly be many extra victims, 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 more likely to trigger nice bodily damage and tried forcible penetration with a international object, in keeping with the district legal professional’s workplace.
He was launched that day on a $5 million bond. His arraignment was scheduled for Oct. 25.
An e-mail to an agent for Weinberg looking 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 courting again to the Nineties, District Lawyer George Gascon stated at a information convention.
He urged them to return ahead.
“The defendant relied on his Hollywood credentials to lure younger girls for picture shoots the place he allegedly sexually assaulted them,” Gascon stated. “Energy and affect can corrupt some to harm others, that always results in a lifetime of trauma for many who are victimized.”
LAPD Detective Ryan Lamar stated investigators have been trying into data acquired from a tip line concerning doable different assaults by Weinberg.
Weinberg was beforehand investigated a number of instances by police, however the DA’s workplace didn’t file costs for lack of proof, Gascon stated.
Weinberg was co-executive producer on practically 100 episodes of the NBC hospital dramedy “Scrubs” between 2000 and 2006 and in addition 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 reveals, 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 girls that he sexually assaulted them throughout picture shoots, the Los Angeles Occasions reported.
One girl alleged that she met Weinberg at a North Hollywood espresso store in 2014 when she was 22 and he satisfied her to return to a photograph shoot at his dwelling 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.
