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Rebecca Minkoff and Danny Masterson.
(Photo: Robert Laberge/Getty Images)Real Housewives of New YorkS Rebecca Minkoff talked about her past relationship with Harpa Danny Masterson.
The fashion designer, 43, appeared on the Monday, December 9, episode of “Two Tims in Pod” podcast. and shared details of how she knew the convicted rapist in the past.
“When I first started, he was incredibly supportive,” Minkoff told the podcast hosts Teddy Mellencamp and Judge Tamara, states that she has not “seen or spoken to the actor” in 10 years.
According to Minkoff, she met through “girls and actresses who were excited to wear my product.” Fellow Scientologist Masterson back when she was a developing designer, adding that The 70’s show Alum introduced her to his famous friends who were willing to wear her designs.
Danny Masterson was convicted of two counts of forcible rape after his second trial for sexually assaulting several women in the early 2000s. The jury reached its decision on Wednesday, May 31, after deliberating for more than six days. Jurors found Masterson, 47, guilty of raping two women in 2003, but they (…)
Minkoff did not consider Masterson’s legal troublesHowever, he told Mellencamp and the judge, “And that’s all I can say. I didn’t participate in the case. I don’t have details.”
Masterson was found guilty of two counts of forcible rape for incidents that occurred in the early 2000s. The actor, who vehemently denied the allegations, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in September 2023. (In the same month, his ex-wife, Bijou Phillips, Filed for divorce. The couple shares daughter Fianna, 10.)
Rebecca Minkoff.
(Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for The Wharton School’s Baker Retail Center and Retail Leaders Circle)Four women claimed this in March 2017 Masterson sexually assaulted them in the early 2000s. A fifth woman came forward in December 2017, claiming that while she was dating the actor, he repeatedly “raped” her.
Masterson maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty in January 2021 to three counts of rape. His first trial began in the fall of 2022, ending in a mistrial. Masterson returned to trial in the spring of 2023 when he was convicted of two counts of rape.
Before the rape conviction, Masterson was best known for his role as Stephen Hyde in The 70’s show From 1998 to 2006 and his role at Netflix the farm As Jameson “Rooster” Bennett from 2016 to 2018.
Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after being convicted of two counts of rape during his retrial for the sexual assault. “Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here. Your actions 20 years ago took away another person’s choice and voice,” the judge told Masterson, 47, on Thursday, September (…)
Meanwhile, Minkoff touched her Connections to Scientology in the past and opened up about her beliefs during an appearance on the “Dinner Party with Jeremy Fall” podcast in October 2021.
“Scientology, the word itself means knowledge,” Minkoff said at the time. “That’s all it means.”
She continued: “I’m Jewish so I have my beliefs with Judaism and God and I go to Scientology to learn knowledge,” she continued. “And it’s spiritual because I don’t train the abdominal muscles. We only separate the body from the spirit. It helped me personally from my demons, from my things I’m not satisfied with myself.”
