Max Factor Heir

Andrew Luster

Andrew Luster es el heredero de la compañía de cosméticos Max Factor y está cumpliendo una pena de 50 años en prisión por violaciones a diferentes mujeres. Luster usaba una droga para dormir a sus víctimas, las violaba y grababa en video (la policía descubrió estas grabaciones en su casa). Después de pagar $1 millón de dólares de fianza Luster no ser presentó al juicio y es allí donde aparece Dog Chapman rastreándolo en México, donde lo arresta para llevarlo a los Estados Unidos. Para saber: Proposition 57 y en vocabulario: flout, forfeit

Andrew Stuart Luster (born December 15, 1963) is the great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor, Sr., and heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune. In 2003 he was convicted of multiple sexual assaults using the date-rape drug GHB.

In 2000, Luster was arrested when a student at a local college told police that she had been raped at Luster's home. Upon investigation, police charged Luster with drugging three women with the date-rape drug GHB, sexually assaulting them, and video-taping the assaults, having found videotapes of the assaults when they searched his home. After paying $1 million bail, Luster failed to appear in court to defend himself against the charges in January 2003. Luster was convicted in absentia and sentenced to 124 years in prison.

The California Court of Appeal refused Luster's appeal, citing that Luster had been a fugitive. Longstanding precedent holds that fugitives flout the court's authority, and thus forfeit their right to appeal. The California Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court later refused to overturn this ruling.

Gloria Swanson was a client to Max Factor

Luster is currently incarcerated at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California. Under California law, since his crimes harmed other persons, he is required to serve at least 85% of his sentence before becoming eligible for release with time off with good behavior.

In late 2009, Luster filed a petition for habeas corpus as the final possibility of having his case reviewed by another court on appeal. The habeas corpus petition was granted in April 2012.

On April 16, 2013, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kathryne Stoltz reduced Luster's sentence to 50 years—48 years for the rapes and two years for the drug-related charges. Luster's lawyers have indicated there will be an appeal.

In 2016, opponents of California Proposition 57 released a brochure that stated that Luster could be released early due to the lack of clarity for what defines "violent crimes."

Two of the victims won civil lawsuits against Luster, who was ordered to pay a total of $40 million. Luster subsequently sold most of his property and declared bankruptcy.

Vocabulario

flout: openly disregard (a rule, law, or convention).

"the advertising code is being flouted"

forfeit: lose or be deprived of (property or a right or privilege) as a penalty for wrongdoing.

"those unable to meet their taxes were liable to forfeit their estates"

Para saber

Proposition 57 was an initiated California ballot proposition, approved on the November 8, 2016 ballot. The Proposition allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons, changes policies on juvenile prosecution, and authorizes sentence credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, and education.

Duane Dog Chapman on Capturing Max Factor Heir Andrew Luster

Many people know you for executing a daring capture of Andrew Luster, who was as I previously mentioned wanted for 87 counts of rape. Please describe why you decide to find the fugitive Andrew Luster and how you tracked him down and what occurred during the daring rescue. It´s an amazing story even though many of us have heard it, seen it. We must hear it from the horse´s mouth.

—Well, all of this is in the book. What´s not in the book I tell you, though. A little bit. Andrew Luster was convicted with 86 counts of rape and poisoning. Not 25, 35, not 52, not 79. 86 counts of rape. Andrew Luster was given 124 years in prison and bolted, took off, while his victims were in court waiting for him to be convicted. I met some of the victims. You can imagine how they felt.

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