Reality Show Surgeon Accused of Raping Several Women to Have Case Dismissed

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Grant Robicheaux, the doctor who appeared on the Bravo reality series Online Dating Rituals of the American Male, is set to have the sexual assault charges first brought against him in 2018 dropped.

The Orange County District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday that all criminal charges against Robicheaux, 39, and his girlfriend Cerissa Riley, who were both accused of drugging and sexually assaulting seven women, will be dismissed.

Robicheaux and Riley, 33, were first charged in September 2018 by former District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. The following month, the couple were both hit with additional charges, and both faced a maximum of life in prison if convicted on all charges against them.

Between September and October 2018, Rackauckas held two press conferences telling media that “investigators had recovered videos depicting up to 1,000 incapacitated women being sexually assaulted by Robicheaux and Riley,” and urging more women to come forward.

However, current Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer ordered a complete reevaluation of the case after Rackauckas admitted during a sworn deposition in June 2019 “that he had used the case to garner media attention to help his re-election campaign.”

The “exhaustive review revealed there was not a single video or photograph depicting an incapacitated woman being sexually assaulted by Robicheaux or Riley,” the DA’s office media release on Tuesday said. “In fact, the review revealed that there was not a single independent witness who came forward to say they saw the defendants sexually assault an unconscious woman.”

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