LOS ANGELES – Riverside County prosecutors have dropped a rape charge against Dan Price, the former chief executive of Gravity Payments, who was accused of sexually assaulting a girlfriend at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs in 2021.
The charge against the 41-year-old founder of the Seattle-based tech company was dismissed Tuesday due to a lack of prosecutable evidence, according to the Riverside County district attorney’s office.
Price gained renown in 2015 when he took an almost 93% pay cut to raise his employees’ starting salary to $70,000. But his reputation as a darling of the progressive movement was sullied in 2022 when The New York Times published an expose detailing an alleged history of abusing women – accusations he has denied…