Actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson Convicted of Rape

A jury finally returned a guilty verdict on two of three counts of rape against Scientologist and actor Danny Masterson (That ’70s Show) earlier this week!

It was to the complete shock of his wife, actress Bijou Phillips (Almost Famous), that the 47-year-old actor was found guilty of rape after seven days of deliberation, and this at the end of a second trial held in Los Angeles, the first having ended in deadlock last December.

Recall that in 2017, an investigation was launched against the actor by the Los Angeles Police Department after three women (one of whom was a member of the Church of Scientology and another was an ex-wife) accused Masterson of drugging and raping them during events between 2001 and 2003.

These accusations led Netflix to fire him from the series The Ranch, in which he starred alongside colleague and friend Ashton Kutcher.

This guilty verdict will certainly offer some relief to his victims.

No date for the sentencing announcement has yet been set, but with this verdict, Masterson faces nearly 30 years in prison!