‘Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Actor Gabriel Olds Arrested in Los Angeles on Multiple Rape Charges

Hollywood actor Gabriel Olds, who has appeared in dozens of supporting tv and movie roles over the previous a number of a long time, was arrested in Los Angeles Wednesday morning and charged with seven counts of sexual assault, in keeping with native authorities, who stated they’re in search of out different doable victims or witnesses in a sequence of alleged assaults that date again to over a decade in the past. 

Olds, 52, was taken into custody in the Crestwood Hills space of Los Angeles after the L.A. Superior Court docket issued a warrant for his arrest for $3.5 million in July. The district lawyer had charged him with seven counts of sexual assault after a 41-year-old lady reported that he’d raped her in her L.A. residence; following the girl’s report, two different girls got here ahead to police saying Olds had raped them in incidents courting again to 2013, in keeping with a press launch from the LAPD. 

Charges in opposition to Olds embody rape, rape of an unconscious particular person, sodomy, assault with intent to commit rape and damage on a girlfriend or important different.

Olds, who just lately appeared in the Oscar-winning The Eyes of Tammy Faye, in which he portrayed evangelist and 700 Membership founder Pat Robertson, is a New York native who attended Yale College earlier than discovering success as an actor. He was solid in one-off roles on sequence corresponding to JAG, CSI, and Six Ft Below and a spread of lesser-seen movies earlier than touchdown the Robertson position reverse Jessica Chastain. 

Police say that Olds used all of these points of his life to allure girls and lure them right into a “false sense of security” earlier than turning violent. They stated that every lady interviewed, some of whom stated they met Olds on courting purposes, reported the identical techniques. 

“We heard the same story, again and again,” Detective Brent Hopkins, who’s a Particular Assault Part supervisor, stated in the LAPD’s launch. “Mr. Olds started off charming, but then used brutal violence to carry out these rapes. Some of these survivors suffered in silence for years before finding the strength to speak up. Now that he’s off the streets, we want to make sure everyone can be heard.”

As well as, police say they positioned two extra alleged victims who stated that they skilled assaults that had been much less violent than the preliminary three had reported. Investigators at the moment are in search of extra potential victims, the LAPD stated, as Olds’ work as an actor had him touring ceaselessly. 

Police are in search of help from members of the general public and are asking any victims or witnesses to contact the LAPD’s West Division, Particular Assault Part. 

An e-mail despatched on Thursday by The Hollywood Reporter to a consultant for Olds in search of remark was not instantly returned. Whether or not Olds has employed an lawyer to talk on his behalf was not obvious on the time of publication and no case quantity for Olds’ arrest has but been issued by the LAPD.