Kink and rough sex are at the heart of a rape case against an actor
LA TimesAn August 2024 booking photo of Gabriel Olds, left, and a September 2016 photo of Olds, right, at the San Diego International Film Festival. The specific reasons were redacted from a memo the district attorney’s office provided to The Times, but a prosecutor wrote in the memo that he had consulted two colleagues who specialized in sex crimes and a third who worked in domestic violence and determined, “This case cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.” LAPD detective Brent Hopkins, a sex crimes detective who investigated the case of actor Gabriel Olds, at LAPD West Bureau in Los Angeles. Brent Hopkins, who took over the Olds investigation later, said, “He-said, she-said cases are very tough to prove, and often they don’t get filed on.” The producer was not deterred. “It is hard to ignore the fact that not one of the allegations, except for, was made contemporaneously,” Olds’ lawyer, Levine, wrote in a filing last year. “But for him, it seems that some of the thrill comes from continuing when people say ‘stop.’” LAPD detective Brent Hopkins has conducted interviews with dozens of women who were once involved with Olds.
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