La Mesa

A La Mesa man accused of raping an 18-year-old woman who answered his newspaper ad for photographer’s models pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lesser sex charge.

Municipal Judge Frederic Link scheduled an Aug. 9 sentencing for Jeffrey Allen Golden, also known as Goldenstein, who could be sentenced to a maximum of eight years and fined $10,000 on one count of forcible oral copulation.

Golden, 38, entered the plea as his case was about to be assigned to a courtroom for trial. Charges including rape, assault with a deadly weapon and soliciting acts of prostitution were dismissed.

The victim testified during a preliminary hearing last month that she met Golden at his condominium Jan. 19 after answering an ad that appeared in that day’s editions of the San Diego Union and The Tribune.

Golden had said he was a photographer of fashion, bathing suits and lingerie for publications including McCall’s and Playboy, and made no mention during their telephone conversation that any of the modeling would require nudity, the woman said.

Shortly after she arrived, however, Golden told her he also filmed pornographic movies and offered her money to appear in one with him.

She kept refusing as Golden increased his offer from $5,000 to $12,000 before he left the room and returned with a gun. The woman said he pointed the weapon at her head while asking if she wouldn’t change her mind.

The San Diego State University student, who said she answered the ad in hopes of gaining modeling experience, ran naked to a neighboring condominium and called police when Golden left the room momentarily after the attack.

Charges against the defendant were dismissed last month because the Municipal Court judge who presided over his first preliminary hearing erred by restricting defense attorney Jack Campbell’s cross-examination of witnesses and by refusing to allow him to call defense witnesses at that stage of the proceedings. A criminal complaint was refiled immediately by the district attorney’s office, requiring the victim to testify again during a second preliminary hearing.