O.C. surgeon who successfully fought sex assault charges loses his medical license

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Set us as preferred An Orange County orthopedic surgeon once accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women in a case that grabbed international headlines has lost his medical license, state records show.Grant Robicheaux’s years-long criminal case ended in 2023 when he pleaded guilty to a felony count of possessing an assault rifle and a misdemeanor count of possessing psilocybin, commonly known as psychedelic mushrooms, which police found during a search of his Newport Beach home in January 2018 while investigating the alleged assaults.

The doctor, who was once deemed the county’s most eligible bachelor by a local magazine and appeared in the Bravo reality show “Online Dating Rituals of the American Male,” was charged in 2018 with sexually assaulting five women.Those charges were ultimately dismissed in a legal battle that became enmeshed with political infighting involving the Orange County district attorney’s office in an election year.

Robicheaux was sentenced to probation, drug education classes and community service on the drug and gun charges.The judge said at the time that if he completed the terms of his probation, he could reduce the felony conviction to a misdemeanor and have both charges expunged from his record.

Robicheaux’s criminal case no longer appears in Orange County Superior Court, which is typical when a case has been wiped from a defendant’s record.The doctor’s attorney, Philip Kent Cohen, did not immediately have a comment when reached by The Times on Wednesday.

California The case that began in 2018 with a tabloid frenzy took a wild, twisting road to collapse, ending Wednesday with a plea deal on non-sex-related charges that leaves Robicheaux free on probation.In August, the Medical Board of California revoked Robicheaux’s medical license, alleging that he violated the terms of ...