By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-03-23 14:56:44 | Updated at 2025-03-25 14:23:59
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced no charges will be filed against Hollywood film producer David Guillod who's been accused of at least 15 sex crimes.
The Atomic Blonde and Extraction executive producer was arrested over four years ago and charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, and kidnapping of four women in California between 2014 and 2020.
Now, after his October 2020 arrest, judges in Santa Barbara County dismissed all charges involving four out of the six victims and deferred the charges involving the two victims to LA County, KTLA 5 reported.
The Los Angeles County DA's Office said in a statement that the Office was 'unable to prove sexual assault allegations against David Guillod beyond reasonable doubt.'
Guillod was accused of numerous horrific sex crimes including kidnap to commit robbery or rape, rape of a drugged victim, sexual penetration with a foreign object, sodomy, and more.
The producer pleaded not guilty or denied the charges brought against him in 2020, according to online records.
The LA DA's Office said that the allegations involve 'deeply troubling and concerning behavior, and we empathize with the pain and trauma the accusers have experienced throughout this long investigative process.'
Authorities chose to try the cases jointly in Santa Barbara County, where a judge in 2022 at a preliminary hearing that there was insufficient evidence for charges involving four of the alleged victims.
After producer David Guillod's October 2020 arrest, judges in Santa Barbara County dismissed all charges involving four out of the six alleged sex crime victims and deferred the charges involving the two victims to LA County
The Atomic Blonde and Extraction executive producer was arrested over four years ago and charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, and kidnapping of four women in California between 2014 and 2020
However, enough evidence was found to move forward with charges of assault of an actor in 2012 and a waitress in 2018, which both allegedly occurred in LA County and have been deferred to the LA District Attorney.
The alleged 2012 attack involved Ted actress Jessica Barth, and the 2018 attack involved an LA waitress who said she was raped and sodomized.
Barth publicly accused Guillod of sexual assault, and claimed the producer drugged her during a meeting in 2012. She reported the allegations to the LAPD the same year and it was investigated but closed two years later.
Barth went public with the allegation in 2017, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, and after another actress reportedly contacted her with a similar account and returned to the LAPD asking officials to pursue the investigation.
The actress claims that she went to dinner with Guillod and another woman and started to feel drowsy while at the table.
She said she then remembers waking up 'at home with six hickeys on my neck. I was horrified. I was completely and utterly confused, and I was sick to my stomach.'
Guillod stepped down as chief executive of Primal Wave Entertainment soon after.
Barth was among the many women who fell victim to inappropriate and sometimes criminal behavior by convicted rapist and disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who is currently serving a 23-year sentence.
Guillod was accused of numerous horrific sex crimes including kidnap to commit robbery or rape, rape of a drugged victim, sexual penetration with a foreign object, sodomy, and more (pictured in LA in 2017 with daughter Grace Guillod)
Guillod has been publicly accused of sexual assault by 'Ted' actress Jessica Barth (pictured), who said the producer had drugged her during a 2012 meeting. The case was investigated by Los Angeles police but closed two years later
At the time of his arrest, Guillod's attorney claimed that emails and text messages that the producer surrendered to police would 'tell a story very different than that which is being alleged.'
'We find the unification of the cases filed through the Santa Barbara DA's office and the timing suspicious,' he added.
The lawyer claimed in a statement at the time, 'For the past eight years, Mr. Guillod has denied these allegations, and for the past eight years, Mr. Guillod has fully cooperated with all aspects of law enforcement’s investigation.'
'While we are unable to pursue charges in this case, our hope is that the example of these women will inspire victims of sexual abuse to seek support and report abuse as soon as possible,' the LA DA's Office said in the March 21, 2025, statement.
