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ATOMIC BLONDE MOVIE MOGUL ARRESTED OVER RAPE SPREE

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A FILM producer has been charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual assault and kidnap of four women.

David Guillod, an executive producer on the Charlize Theron spy drama Atomic Blonde and mercenary thriller Extraction, is the latest Hollywood mogul to be swept up in the # MeToo movement, which led to Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year jail sentence for rape and sexual assault in March this year.

Guillod surrendere­d to cops in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, accompanie­d by his lawyer, after a three-year investigat­ion led to him being charged.

He faces 11 charges for the incidents which span back to 2012, and a maximum sentence of 21 years to life in prison.

Guillod, 53, denies all the charges

“Mr Guillod has been vilified for eight years without being afforded the opportunit­y to examine under oath his accusers,” said lawyer Philip Cohen.

“Justice is rarely swift

A SLEEPING woman was shocked when she awoke to find her own brother had dangled his COCK into her mouth.

The woman invited the man over to her home in Townsville, in north-east Queensland, Australia, on Friday afternoon to mow her lawn.

After she went to sleep inside, it is alleged her brother followed her in and sexually assaulted her by putting his penis inside her mouth.

When she woke up to discover the alleged sexual assault her brother walked outside and began to cut her lawn.

She called emergency services and when police officers arrived they found the alleged attacker still mowing the lawn.

An investigat­ion has been launched.

DENIAL: Guillod and often does not come easy, but Mr Guillod very much looks forward to clearing his name in the appropriat­e forum.”

Guillod has been publicly accused of sexual assault by Ted actress Jessica Barth, who said the producer had drugged her during a 2012 meeting, and reported the allegation­s the same year.

It was investigat­ed but

DRAMA: Actress Charlize Theron in closed two years later.

Barth was also among many women in the movie industry who were subjected to inappropri­ate and – in a number of cases – criminal behaviour by convicted rapist and disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, who is currently serving a 23-year sentence.

Barth went public with her allegation in 2017, in the wake of the # MeToo movement.

Guillod stepped down as chief exec of Primal Wave Entertainm­ent soon after.

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