The #MeToo movement hasn’t completely stopped Hollywood’s corruption and those who take advantage of women using their positions of power, but it has made major strides by penalizing several culprits. Most notably, it tore down major producer Harvey Weinstein , and now, Danny Masterson has followed suit with his 2023 rape convictions.
In 2020, That ‘70s Show star Masterson, known for playing Steven Hyde, was charged with three rape charges that took place in the early aughts. Three years later in December 2023, he was moved to a maximum security prison to serve time for his crimes. Where exactly is he now and will he ever get out of jail?
Now, Danny Masterson is serving a 30-year to life sentence in a maximum-security California prison.
He may have been a decent actor in That ‘70s Show , among other projects, but Masterson couldn’t feign innocence regarding his convictions. After a 2022 mistrial with a deadlocked jury, he was retried in April and May 2023, which resulted in two of three rape convictions. The third charge was a hung jury of 8–4 in favor of a conviction, but prosecutors announced in July 2023 that they wouldn’t retry the third charge.