Overprivileged Andrew Luster, scion to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, was convicted of multiple rapes in 2003. Luster had never needed to work for a living and instead spent his life in bars and as a well-heeled "surfer dude" in California.
His specialty was using his money and good looks to lure young women to his bachelor pad, slip them the date-rape drug GHB, and have sex with them while they were defenseless. He was tried in 2002 for rapes that had occurred in 1996, 1997 and 2000. Police were in possession of video footage he had taken of each rape.
Luster fled the country in 2003 while court proceedings were underway and, supported by money from his trust fund, reportedly worth around $30 million, continued his dissolute lifetsyle elsewhere.
Luster was tried in absentia, convicted of multiple offenses and sentenced to 124 years.
In 2003, while Luster was living in Puerto Villarta, Mexico, he was located by the colorful bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, who himself got into trouble for operating illegally in Mexico. Luster was returned to the United States and tossed in the pokey, where he is very likely to remain for the rest of his life. In 2004, he filed for bankruptcy.
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