Jeffrey Cooper, a member of the motion picture academy, is found guilty of three counts of child molestation.
of threeThe two-week criminal trial began May 9 at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys, four years after Cooper was arrested and a grand jury indicted him on eight counts involving two children. Cooper, a resident of Calabasas, pleaded not guilty.
The jury convicted him on three felony charges of a lewd act on a child involving one of his accusers. Jurors, however, were unable to render a verdict on five counts against Cooper involving the other accuser. Judge Alan Schneider declared a mistrial on those charges.The judge, calling Cooper a flight risk, ordered him held in jail without bail. Cooper had been free on a $5-million bond, reduced from nearly $9 million shortly after his arrest.then 66, on suspicion of multiple counts of child molestation, according to court records.
In his opening statement, Jackson called the allegations false, part of “a money play,” and called his client a “target” because of his “wealth, status and resources.”that she considered Cooper a “friend” and a “mentor,” someone she wrote songs with; he taught her to play guitar in his home music studio in his basement, she said. She claimed that when she was 12 or 13, Cooper molested her on a couch in the music studio.
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