Local News in Brief : 2nd Model Alleges Rape
New felony charges were filed Friday against the owner of a Hollywood modeling studio who is being held on charges of raping an aspiring model during a photo session.
Ross Washington, 55, was charged with one count each of rape by a foreign object and sexual battery after a 20-year-old Orange woman heard a news report about the earlier charge and contacted police, Deputy Dist. Atty. Steve Sitkoff said.
Sitkoff said the woman was sexually assaulted at the modeling studio last June after she answered a newspaper advertisement placed by Washington, owner of Starmaker International and producer of the “Miss West Coast Beauty Pageant.”
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