Actor Danny Masterson ‘used drugs and Scientology to get away with raping women’

Danny Masterson (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP, File)

Danny Masterson drugged women’s drinks so he could rape them, then relied on his prominence in the Church of Scientology to avoid consequences for years, a prosecutor has told jurors in closing arguments at the actor’s trial.

“The defendant drugs his victims to gain control. He does this to take away his victims’ ability to consent,” deputy district attorney Ariel Anson told the jury of seven men and five women.