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The great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor, a convicted rapist who has been jailed for the past 19 years, has been denied parole after prosecutors said he still posed a risk to the public.
Captured and turned in by reality star Duane ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman, 59-year-old Andrew Luster was found guilty of 86 criminal counts, including rape of an unconscious person, sodomy and poisoning in 2003.
So at age 40, Luster’s conviction only came after a series of sensational events that at the time captivated the nation, including a highly publicized trial in which California prosecutors alleged that the stem He brought three women to his beachfront home and raped them after turning their drinks red with gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB.
Even more shocking was his eventual capture by the bounty hunter, which came after Luster, with the support of a $3 million trust fund used to travel and surf Port Ventura’s many beaches, escaped to Mexico while in released on $1 million bail.
The great-grandson of beauty mogul Max Factor Sr., Luster was arrested in 2000 after a 21-year-old college student told police he raped her. A search of his residence saw cops find tapes of Luster assaulting sleeping or unconscious women.
Andrew Luster, a convicted rapist who has been locked up for the past 19 years, has been denied parole after prosecutors said he still posed a risk to the public.
The 59-year-old scion, pictured in June 2003 after his capture, lured women to his beachfront Mussel Shoals and raped them after spiked gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, in their drinks.
The makeup heir, who witnesses his crimes described as “childish,” later paid $40 million to two unidentified female victims who won civil lawsuits against him and has since filed for bankruptcy.
He and his legal team had argued that the recorded encounters were consensual. The women awarded the $40 million, who appeared in several of the sex videos, testified in Luster’s criminal trial that they willingly drank GHB-laced beverages but never consented to the sexual acts, which occurred while they were unconscious.
Prosecutors claimed that Luster’s drug-fuelled reign of terror lasted at least 1996 and 2000, when he was 30 years old.
As proceedings progressed, and Luster was controversially granted $1 million bail, the sex fiend fled to Mexico, at which point he slipped under the radar of Chapman, who at the time was still a year away from him. catapult to superstardom with his hit show.
Reception Tips from a variety of sources, including Luster’s own attorney, Chapman, then 50, soon tracked down the dishonor scion, who was sentenced in absentia while on the run, to the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s Pacific coast.
Dog’s crew reportedly got into a fight with Luster and eventually overpowered the fugitive, and they were able to restrain him and get him to a car to California.
After fleeing to Mexico during a legal proceeding in 2003, Luster was captured and turned into a cop by reality star Duane ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman, who was arrested because bounty hunting is illegal in the Central American county.
Chapman, pictured here after Luster’s capture with his half-brother Tim and son Leland, reportedly got into a fight with Luster, eventually overpowering the fugitive, and was able to restrain him and get him to a car in California before Mexican police apprehended them.
However, apparently unknown to the team, bounty hunting is prohibited in Mexico, a statute that Mexican law enforcement officers were quick to point out when they stopped the procession before they reached the border.
The encounter saw Chapman and Luster arrested, the latter extradited to the US and sentenced to 124 years in prison, to be carried out immediately.
Luster was granted his parole hearing after California voters approved controversial Prop 57 allowing parole consideration for non-violent offenders.
However, that sentence was reduced in 2013 to 50, after lawyers for the 49-year-old appealed the court’s decision ten years ago, arguing it was reduced to 25 years or less, citing Luster’s “stellar performance.” . in prison.
He was then granted a new sentencing hearing by a California judge, on the grounds that the court “failed to state specific reasons for imposing consecutive full sentences” as required by law.
Then, in 2016, Luster’s case for freedom became more pronounced, after California voters approved the controversial Proposition 57 allowing parole consideration for allegedly non-violent offenders.
A loophole in the law also opened the door to prison time reductions for offenders already incarcerated for violent crimes, and some of the crimes Luster was convicted of are now classified as “nonviolent” under the guidance.
A parole hearing was subsequently set for the embattled scion in December 2022, which took place on Wednesday and saw what was likely Luster’s last offer of freedom denied before he lived out the rest of his days in prison.
Dog, whose full name is Duane Chapman, faced felony kidnapping charges for capturing wealthy cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, who was on the run in Mexico after posting $1 million bail on multiple counts of drugging and raping three women.
During an interview with Larry King in 2006, Dog, who was wanted in Mexico at the time after fleeing the country while out on bail – defended his decision to bring Luster to justice for his crimes, recalling how the rapist tried to offer them an alias once apprehended.
He said his name was David Correra. And of course I said wait a minute,” Chapman recalled. ‘This is Andrew Stuart Luster, wanted on 86 counts of rape, has 124 hundred years in prison…of course Luster was fluent in Spanish and was telling the cops I’m not that guy, blah blah blah. ‘
Dog’s attorney, William Bollard, told Larry King, “The best case is they get it thrown out, the case goes away.” In the worst case, they have to remain on trial in Puerto Vallarta for a single charge of deprivation of liberty, which carries a penalty that ranges from six months to four years.’
In 2007, Dog dodged extradition to Mexico when a judge ultimately threw out the case.