Bijou Phillips demands full custody of their nine-year-old daughter. (File)
Los Angeles:
Actress Bijou Phillips has filed for divorce from Danny Masterson, less than two weeks after the former ‘That ’70s Show’ star was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for raping two women, US media reported on Tuesday. The model and singer cited “irreconcilable differences” in her petition before a California court, famous news website TMZ reported.
Masterson, who was found guilty in May of raping the two women in 2001 and 2003 at his home in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, was sentenced on September 7 to 30 years to life.
The 47-year-old American actor, who has one child with Phillips, cannot apply for parole until he is 77 years old.
Phillips is seeking full custody of their nine-year-old daughter, with visitation rights for Masterson, TMZ reports.
Her lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment from AFP.
Phillips had remained with Masterson through his two trials; the first was annulled last year after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision.
The jury in the retrial deadlocked on a new rape charge against a third woman. That charge was dismissed.
Masterson rose to fame with the 1998 launch of the retro sitcom “That ’70s Show,” in which he played the character Steven Hyde alongside fellow stars Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher.
He co-starred with Kutcher again in Netflix’s “The Ranch,” but was fired and written off the show in 2017 after Los Angeles police confirmed they were investigating multiple rape allegations against the actor.
The three women at the center of the charges against Masterson were members of the Church of Scientology at the time. Two of them said church officials had discouraged them from contacting police.
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