{"id":65048,"date":"2020-06-24T01:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=65048"},"modified":"2020-06-24T01:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:45:39","slug":"judge-cuts-bail-hollywood-producer-charged-sexual-assault-four-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=65048","title":{"rendered":"Judge cuts bail for Hollywood producer charged in sexual assault of four women"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Santa Barbara County judge reduced the bail for a Hollywood producer accused of raping four women from $3 million to $1 million Tuesday, after his lawyer argued he knew of some of the allegations for many years but never fled.<\/p>\n

David Guillod, 53, did not enter a plea during the hearing in a Santa Barbara court to charges that include 11 felony counts of rape, kidnap to commit rape and rape of a drugged victim in connection with four alleged attacks in May 2012, December 2014 and January 2015.<\/p>\n

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Philip Cohen, Guillod\u2019s lawyer, argued in a motion that prosecutors initially filed charges on June 12 with an arrest warrant of $1 million but upped the bail to $3 million when the producer and talent manager\u00a0surrendered to detectives\u00a0at Santa Barbara County Sheriff\u2019s headquarters Monday. His legal team said Guillod would post the $1 million bond.<\/p>\n

The producer of the movies \u201cAtomic Blonde\u201d and Netflix\u2019s \u201cExtraction\u201d ran Primary Wave Entertainment, a talent agency, until 2017, when actress Jessica Barth, a leading voice in the #MeToo movement, accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her five years before.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, actress and former client Heather Graham took to Twitter to voice her support for Barth. \u201cDavid Guillod use to be my agent. I believe Jessica Barth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guillod, of Sherman Oaks, is charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Los Angeles in May 2012. He is also accused of raping an employee for a management firm he operated during a December 2014 wine country retreat in Santa Barbara County. The woman received a $60,000 payment and was required to sign a nondisclosure agreement before leaving the company, according to sources familiar with the allegations.<\/p>\n\n

She, however, reported Guillod\u2019s alleged attack to Los Angeles police in 2017 after other women reported being sexually assaulted by him.<\/p>\n

Guillod\u2019s third and fourth alleged attacks, in January 2015, involve a woman from Santa Barbara County and one from Los Angeles County, according to sources. Authorities did not identify the women who said Guillod attacked them.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past eight years, Mr. Guillod has denied these allegations, and for the past eight years, Mr. Guillod has fully cooperated with all aspects of law enforcement\u2019s investigation. We find the unification of the cases filed through the Santa Barbara D.A.\u2019s office and the timing suspicious,\u201d Cohen, Guillod\u2019s attorney, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Among the claims Cohen made was that DNA has come back negative in the Los Angeles case; witnesses have come forward in support of Guillod\u2019s account of events; and numerous text messages and emails obtained by the defense tell a story very different than that which is being alleged. His lawyer said that Guillod has passed five independent polygraph examinations. Such tests are not usable in criminal courts.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office said in a statement it has been working closely with law enforcement and prosecutors in Santa Barbara County on the investigation since March 2018.<\/p>\n

Guillod\u2019s next court appearance is scheduled for June 30 in Santa Maria.<\/p>\n

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