Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
Convicted Masterson had a huge impact on her life
Ashton Kutcher (l.) and Mila Kunis with Danny Masterson in 2000.
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Danny Masterson has been sentenced to a long prison sentence. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis previously sent letters to the court.
A Los Angeles court has sentenced Danny Masterson (47) to 30 years to life in prison for two counts of rape. Before the sentence is announced Ashton Kutcher (45) and his wife Mila Kunis (40) turned to the responsible judge to be lenient.
The couple, friends and former colleagues of Masterson from the popular sitcom “The Roaring Seventies”, speak in letters about the great influence the actor is said to have had on them. This emerges from court documents, as several US media outlets unanimously report.
Not a “typical Hollywood life” for Ashton Kutcher
His friend “had nothing but a positive influence on me,” Kutcher explained in his letter. reports, among other things, “E! News”. Masterson is an “extraordinarily honest and conscious person.” He describes the convicted actor as a good role model who saved him from leading “a typical Hollywood life full of drugs.”
Kutcher explains that the verdict has already been reached and “the victims have a great desire for justice.” However, he does not believe that Masterson is “persistently damaging to society” and that it is a “tertiary injustice” if his daughter has to grow up without a father present. The actor has been married to his colleague Bijou Phillips (43) since 2011, who was there when the sentence was announced. They have a daughter together, who was born in 2014.
For Kunis, Masterson is like an older brother
Masterson also had a “remarkable influence” on her life and those of others, Kunis wrote in her letter. The convicted actor also played a “key role” in preventing her from taking drugs. He is not only an “incredible friend”, but also a “confidant and, above all, an outstanding figure of an older brother for me”, she wrote, according to Sky News.
Masterson was found guilty of two counts of rape at the end of May. The actor denied the allegations and claimed that the sexual acts were consensual. However, a 12-member jury found it proven that Masterson raped two women at his home in the Hollywood Hills in 2003. In a third case against him, the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.