The mayor of Glendora, California, is speaking out after Andrew Luster, an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was convicted in 2003 on 86 counts of drugging and raping three women, was released to parole supervision last week.
\n\n“The City of Glendora is beyond disappointed. We are outraged,” Mayor David Fredendall said in a statement Friday.
\n\nFredendall said Luster, 62, was released from state prison after having served about 20 years and is reportedly living in the community. NBC Los Angeles has not verified where exactly Luster is living.
\n\nLuster, the great-grandson of Max Factor, was convicted in 2003 after he was captured in Mexico by bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman and returned to Southern California.
\n\nHe was originally handed a 124-year prison sentence, which a Ventura County Superior Court judge vacated in 2013 on the grounds that the trial judge “failed to state specific reasons for imposing full consecutive sentences.”
\n\nLater that year, his sentence was reduced to 50 years, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.
\n\nDespite Luster’s having been denied early release on parole multiple times, former Senior Deputy District Attorney Tony Wold, who prosecuted the original case against Luster, said in October 2024…
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