A clip of talk show host Conan O’Brien interviewing actor Danny Masterson in 2004 went viral as Masterson was sentenced Thursday to 30 years to life in prison for rape.
The 47-year-old Scientologist did not react as Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo announced her decision – 15 years for each rape, with the sentences to run consecutively.
In the clip, believed to be from a 2004 episode of O’Brien’s NBC show “Late Night,” the talk show host talks to Masterson about why he doesn’t have the accent that came from his childhood on Long Island more, with the actor saying he disappeared away after a decade in Los Angeles.
He then said his friend, actor Bodhi Elfman, made fun of him for saying certain words that seemed like he was saying, “Hello, my name is Danny Masterson, would you like to touch my balls?” “
“Why are you asking people to do that?” asks a laughing O’Brien, to which Masterson replies, “You’ve got it. Everyone should grab it.”
O’Brien bursts out deadpan: “I’ve heard about you and you’ll be caught soon, I know that.”
A clip of talk show host Conan O’Brien interviewing actor Danny Masterson in 2004 went viral as Masterson was sentenced Thursday to 30 years to life in prison for rape
“I will,” Masterson replies.
In the clip, which has been viewed over 2.3 million times
One went even further, noting that O’Brien wrote for The Simpsons, who are often credited with predicting the future.
“He used to write for The Simpsons, so of course he anticipated it,” said one Xuser.
Before handing down the sentence, Judge Olmedo told Masterson that even though he had “steadfastly maintained his innocence…you are not the victim here.” “Your actions 20 years ago were criminal and that is why you are here today.”
At the sentencing, Jane Doe No. 1 called Masterson a “true coward and heartless monster,” adding that to this day she suffers from an extreme fear of the dark and often wakes up crying.
Sometimes, she said, she hides in a closet or screams out the window, “I’m not okay.”
“I think life is a fair sentence,” she concluded.
In the clip, believed to be from a 2004 episode of O’Brien’s NBC show “Late Night,” he talks to Masterson about why he no longer has the accent he had growing up on Long Island. The actor said he disappeared after a decade in Los Angeles
Masterson said his friend, actor Bodhi Elfman (pictured left), made fun of him for saying certain words that seemed like he was saying, “Hello, my name is Danny Masterson, would you like my balls.” touch?”
“Why are you asking people to do that?” asks a laughing O’Brien, to which Masterson replies, “You’ve got it. Everyone should grab it.”
O’Brien bursts out deadpan: “I’ve heard about you and you’ll be caught soon, I know that.”
The woman continued to tell the room that she was born into a family of Scientologists, and when she reported the rape to the church, a high-ranking official “made it clear that Danny was untouchable.”
“I didn’t choose to be born into Scientology — and I didn’t choose to be raped by Danny Masterson,” the mother of three said, fighting back tears. “Scientology has tried to silence us…to intimidate us.”
“I wish I had reported him to the police sooner,” she said, adding that at no point did Masterson show “an ounce of remorse for the pain I suffered.”
“The first few years after the rape were pretty dark. I lost pretty much everything. “I had to start my life over at the age of 29,” she said.
Before his sentencing, Masterson’s attorney, Shawn Holley, urged the judge to impose multiple 15-year sentences rather than consecutive ones, saying it would be “fair and just.”
Convicted rapist Danny Masterson blows his wife Bijou Phillips a kiss in the courtroom as he is sentenced to 30 years in prison
Bijou Phillips is seen sobbing in court as her husband and father of her young daughter is sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping two women
Masterson played the wisecracking Steven Hyde on That ’70s Show from 1998 to 2006
Prosecutor and Assistant District Attorney Reinhold Mueller asked the judge to impose a sentence of 30 years to life, saying Holley’s plea for just 15 years was “not fair and just…at all.” Thirty years to life in prison is deserved.
“After the first rape, Masterson had time to think about what he had done,” he said. “Still, he raped again.”
Masterson had two trials. His first trial, six months earlier, ended in a mistrial after a different jury was hopelessly deadlocked on all three rape charges.
Masterson was free on $3.3 million bail in both trials. However, that freedom ended with his double conviction on May 31 and he has been incarcerated at the infamous Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles ever since. The actor has not been pictured since.
Masterson’s victims tearfully told the courtroom how he ruined their lives.
“You are pathetic, disturbed and extremely violent and the world is a safer place when you are in prison,” Jane Doe No. 2 said, looking directly at the actor, dressed in a gray suit and gray open-neck shirt.
“You are a true coward and a heartless monster,” Jane Doe #1 added. “I think life is an appropriate sentence.”
Bijou must come to terms with the prospect of raising her child alone after her 47-year-old husband was convicted of two counts of rape in a Los Angeles court in May
As Bijou Philips watched earlier, trying to hide her feelings with large dark glasses, Jane Doe No. 2 stared at Masterson and told him, “I don’t have to endure your shame anymore.” You have to wear it. This means you have to sit in a cell.
“I’m still coming to terms with what you did to me… in that brutal way.” She said the emotional and mental damage she suffered from the rape was “a lifetime of reparation,” adding adding that Masterson was “empowered and protected” by Scientology because of his fame in the Church.
And she said she was “angry” when she learned there were other rape victims. After years of remaining silent at the church’s urging, she finally decided to report Masterson to the police.
“I decided to report him with the full understanding that my life would be destroyed again (by violating the Do Not Tell Doctrine) of Scientology, which has terrorized me ever since.”
Jane Doe #2 addressed Masterson directly again and told him, “When you raped me, you took away my ability to have stability in my life for decades.” After you raped me, I stopped life.’
She said her “promising” acting career “collapsed” after the “heinous attack took my life.”
“I know you’re proud of hurting women.” You treated me like I was less than trash. Your emptiness and cowardice will be your true legacy.
“You are pathetic, disturbed and extremely violent and the world is safer with you in prison.” I wouldn’t wish rape on my worst enemy.
“You thought the law didn’t apply to you. You acted smug and defiant.’
She concluded her “victim impact statement” by saying, “I forgive you, although she has suffered two decades of trauma since Masterson brutally raped her.”
Referring to the “devastation” suffered by victims of violent rape, the prosecutor added: “This is something they carry with them forever.” This is a long-lasting punishment for them. These lives will never be the same.’
He scoffed at Holley’s portrayal of Masterson as a “model husband and father.”
“This does not rule out the possibility that the defendant is a violent serial rapist,” he added.
In addition to imposing a sentence of 30 years to life, Judge Olmedo ordered Masterson To as a sex offender after serving his sentence.
A prison bus takes Danny Masterson back to prison after his sentencing on Thursday
“You are pathetic, disturbed and extremely violent and the world is a safer place when you are in prison,” Jane Doe No. 2 said, looking directly at the actor, dressed in a gray suit and gray open-neck shirt. A court sketch from his trial is shown
In her request for leniency, Masterson’s attorney, Shawn Holley, asked the judge to reduce his sentence, arguing that the actor had no prior criminal record before the rapes and had led “a productive and positive life on television.”
Holley said she received 50 letters from various people praising Masterson for “selfless acts, opening his home, his wallet and his heart to people in need.”
She added that he had been an “exemplary father, husband, son, friend and employee” and argued that a 30-year life sentence meant that “Mr. Masterson (now 47) would likely die in prison.”
Her co-counsel on the defense team, Philip Cohen, told the court that “a life sentence of 15 years is not the same as 15 years” and pointed out that at the end of the 15 years, the parole board would decide that Masterson was not rehabilitated or If he was not a model prisoner, his sentence could be extended by additional years, up to life imprisonment.
On Thursday, in shackles, he made the short journey from prison to Courtroom 105 on the ninth floor of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, where he faced his victims.
A close friend told that Ms Bijou “felt like she was grieving a death” as she awaited her husband’s sentencing.
“Currently Bijou is circling the drain, full of emotion and no emotion at all,” they said.
“She’s a shell of who she was.” She’s really trying to be strong for her daughter as she tries to figure out what life will be like for her.
“It can only be compared to a divorce or death because she couldn’t be with Danny like she used to be.”
Bijou Phillips, 43, kept her wedding ring on as she walked out the back exit of a criminal courthouse in Los Angeles on Thursday. She wore dark sunglasses, a blue shirt and white pants
A close friend of the actress said she is now “really trying to figure everything out” after her life was destroyed by her husband’s rape allegations
A grieving Bijou Phillips was seen leaving a Los Angeles courthouse shortly after her husband Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years in prison on rape charges.
The actress and former socialite, 43, kept her wedding ring on as she walked out the back exit of a criminal courthouse in Los Angeles, hiding her emotions behind dark sunglasses while wearing a sheer blue shirt and white pants.
Masterson blew Phillips a final kiss to his wife as he was taken away in handcuffs to carry out his sentence, while several Scientology friends and family members joined her at the courthouse.
As media approached her after the trial, Phillips was seen clutching the arm of a man she was leaving the building with while trying to hide her face.