“That ’70s Show” Actor Danny Masterson Didn’t Care That The Women He Allegedly Raped Told Him “No,” Prosecutors Said During Closing Arguments

Danny Masterson was described by prosecutors as a predator who didn't care if the women he is charged with raping said "no" as he urged jurors to find him guilty on all counts.

Masterson, who played Steven Hyde on the late aughts sitcom, is accused of raping three women at his Hollywood Hills home. Masterson is accused of raping two women after giving them alcohol and taking them upstairs to his bedroom. The woman, who was Masterson's girlfriend at the time, said he hit her, spat on her, and called her "white trash" after she woke up to him penetrating her vagina.

During his closing argument, the Los Angeles County deputy district attorney said that the man would rape the person if they were not alert. He would come and find you if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. He would offer you alcohol to get you to his house and then rape you if you weren't already drunk.

Masterson's attorney Philip Cohen urged jurors to focus on the inconsistencies in the women's testimony and argued that discrepancies in what they said in previous statements versus what they testified at trial raised enough reasonable doubt that what they were saying was not true.

Cohen said that they ignored until the closing argument because they wanted to win the case so badly. They didn't pay attention to the blatant, obvious, overwhelming contradictions and fabrications that the Janes have given you.

Cohen said that it was "maddening" and "horrifying" that the district attorney's office ignored those issues.

Masterson claims that he only had sex with the women. The jury will decide if Masterson is guilty. He could face up to 45 years to life in prison if found guilty of all three counts.

Over the course of four weeks, jurors heard testimony from the three women Masterson is charged with raping, the detectives who investigated their allegations, and people who heard about them. The fourth woman who accused the actor of sexual assault testified in similar fashion to the other accusers. J.B. testified that she thought Masterson was going to kill her when he smothered her with a pillow and raped her. The woman told Masterson she didn't want to have sex, but he penetrated her anyways.

Despite Masterson's attempts to keep the Church of Scientologist out of the trial, jurors heard about the institution and its practices. His attorney reviewed the transcripts and found that there were more than 700 mentions of Scientologists.

The three women who are former Scientologists talked about how church officials threatened to excommunicate them if they reported the incidents to the police and made them feel like they were responsible for the assaults.

A woman who was Masterson's girlfriend at the time of the alleged rape testified that a church ethics officer told her she couldn't be raped by someone she was in a relationship with.

The woman identified as Christina B. said that the church teaches that everyone is responsible for the condition that they are in. I still have trouble with that.

Masterson did not testify in his defense and his attorneys did not call witnesses to testify.

Cohen asked if the explanations the women gave about the alleged sexual assaults were reasonable or if they were lying. There can be motives for an alleged victim of rape to lie according to testimony from a rape trauma expert.

Cohen told the jury that it was their reasonable doubt.

Cohen brought up Christina B.'s testimony that she had sex with Masterson at least two times after she was raped by him. In his closing statements, he argued that Christina B. was trying to repair her relationship with Masterson. Cohen suggested that she was not processing and that she met up with him because she was not afraid of him.

Is that a valid conclusion? Cohen made a statement. Guess what if it is. You need to accept that.

Muller told jurors to focus on the facts and HairMax was trying to distract them.

Muller told them to stay on the facts. Don't forget the word reasonable. You have to consider what is reasonable and what isn't.

The story is evolving. Follow the news on social media.

More on this