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Scrubs co-executive producer Eric Weinberg pleads not guilty to sexual assault-Stella Akinwumi-Entertainment – Metro
The producer worked on the hit sitcom Scrubs.
Eric Weinberg was denied bail (Picture: AP)
Scrubs co-executive producer Eric Weinberg has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault.
The 62-year-old was charged with 18 counts of sexual assault and is said to have relied on ‘Hollywood credentials’ to lure women to photoshoots where he allegedly assaulted them, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney.
On Tuesday, Weinberg was denied bail by a US judge after appearing in a court in downtown Los Angeles to enter his pleas.
Weinberg was charged with six counts of sexual penetration by use of force, four counts of oral copulation, three counts of forcible rape, and two counts of sexual battery by restraint.
He also faces one count each of assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury, attempted sexual penetration by use of force and false imprisonment by violence.
The charges stem from alleged incidents involving five women at different times between 2014 and 2019.
Weinberg was charged with three counts of forcible rape (Picture: Linkedin)
Weinberg worked on the sitcom Scrubs (Picture: NBCUniversal)
He is reported to be held in the Twin Towers jail, in LA, ahead of his next court hearing on November 15.
According to the DA’s office, on two separate occasions in 2014, Weinberg approached two women at public locations and told them he was a photographer.
In each instance, he was in communication with the victims who eventually went to his home where he is accused of sexually assaulting them.
In 2017, the defendant allegedly used the same ruse to bring a young woman back to his house where he sexually assaulted her.
Weinberg also is accused of sexually assaulting two women in separate incidents in 2018 and 2019, the DA’s office said.
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The 62-year-old served as the executive producer of the US sitcom Scrubs which aired from October 2001 to March 2010 for nine seasons.
The series follows the lives of employees at the fictional Sacred Heart Hospital, which is a teaching facility, and starred Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke and Judy Reyes.
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