Scrubs producer Eric Weinberg accused of being a 'serial' rapist faces trial ... trends now

Disgraced TV producer Eric Weinberg will stand trial over multiple allegations of sexual assault, a Los Angeles County judge ruled Tuesday as per Variety and the NYT.

The judge came to the decision after days of testimony from Weinberg's alleged victims, who said they feared for their lives during the alleged assaults that occurred between 2014 and 2019.

Weinberg — who allegedly presented himself as a photographer — is accused of luring women that he'd met in public and on dating apps/modeling websites to his Los Feliz home to sexually assault them. 

He is charged with 28 counts of rape and sexual battery. It was originally 32 counts but four were dropped — one for insufficient evidence and three due to expired statute of limitations.

Weinberg has pleaded not guilty and will be arraigned in June. If convicted, he faces more than 100 years in prison.

Weinberg, one of the most prominent producers in the TV sector, produced several television shows over the course of his career, including Scrubs and American Dad.

Thus, his first arrest in July 2022 sent shockwaves throughout the industry, as the LA District Attorney's office revealed some of the accusations leveled against him.

In 2014, the office said, Weinberg told two separate women that he was a photographer, invited them to his home, and sexually assaulted them.

The District Attorney said that in 2017, Weinberg repeated the ruse on another woman. He was also accused of sexually assaulting two women in separate incidents in 2018 and 2019, according to the office's criminal complaint.

Detectives at the time added that additional unidentified victims were also likely, and that the producer's illicit behavior could go as far back as the early 1990s.

Weinberg's bail was subsequently set at an eye-watering $3.5million, which he promptly paid and was allowed back on the street - during which time the DA's office continued to build its case against the once respected TV writer.

The DA's office further revealed in a release that prior to that arrest, Weinberg had twice been 'investigated by the LAPD on suspicion of sexual assault, booking records and statements from the LAPD show.' At least one woman warned about the producer's alleged predatory behavior in a Facebook group.

Officials at the time urged anyone with relevant information to their case come forward - to which dozens of possible victims reportedly complied, with each incident reviewed for potential charging.

Roughly three months later in October 2022, Weinberg was again arrested - roughly a week after District Attorney George Gascón announced 18 charges against him — though he will now face 28 counts.

His alleged crimes included 18 felony counts of rape, oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration, sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment by use of violence, and attempted forcible penetration with a foreign object. 

Notoriously soft on crime, Gascón at the time remarked on how the producer's reign of terror went

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