Trial begins for 'Scrubs' executive producer facing more than 20 sex assault charges

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Set us as preferred Jurors in Los Angeles Superior Court were shown dozens of graphic photos that were taken during what prosecutors say were sexual assaults by disgraced Hollywood mogul Eric Weinberg, whose sex crimes trial began Thursday, more than four years after his initial arrest.During their opening statements, prosecutors flashed images of Weinberg’s erect penis splayed between one woman’s buttocks and pushed down another one’s throat while he straddled her neck — two of more than 20 sex acts his seven criminal accusers say the former “Scrubs” executive forced on them after they were lured to his Los Feliz home on the pretense of a photo shoot.

“You’re not going to go to the cops and say I raped you, right?” he allegedly demanded of one before allowing her to leave after their encounter in 2019.That woman, prosecutors said, went home and didn’t shower for three days, allegedly seeking to preserve his ejaculate on her body while working up the courage to report the incident to the Los Angeles Police Department.“She knows she needs to go to the police and tell them what happened but she’s stuck,” Deputy Dist.

Atty.Ariel Anson told the three women and nine men of the jury.

Another accuser, whose 911 tape was played during opening statements, called emergency services weeping from her job at the Boys and Girls Club in Santa Monica immediately after she’d left Weinberg’s house.“I met him a couple times over here by my job,” she told the dispatcher.

“His kids go at the school here.” (In fact, Weinberg had lied to the woman about where his kids went to school.)Weinberg was initially charged with more than a dozen counts of rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual battery, false imprisonment, assault by means to cause great bodily harm and sexual penetration by a foreign object when he wa...