The indictment stated that in most cases, Goldblatt got the plaintiffs to agree
to sex by falsely claiming that he expected them to have a great future in
acting and telling them he wanted them to rehearse for auditions for the part
of a young girl seducing an older man in soap operas he had written.
According to the prosecutor, attorney Rakefet Mohar, Goldblatt would warn the
young women not to tell anyone what he had asked them to do, claiming that
anyone not in acting would not understand.
Goldblatt allegedly committed one rape in 1988 when one of the plaintiffs was
16 years old. She met Goldblatt after she had approached the Status modeling
agency to seek a job in commercials.
The indictment stated that Goldblatt told the girl he was helping her rehearse
for a movie about a father who had incestuous relations with his daughter after
her mother was killed in a car accident, and they needed to rehearse at his
home and see if she was telegenic.
The prosecutor said Goldblatt told her that if she managed the main scene,
which included a sex scene between the father and the daughter, she could play
in any movie easily.
The prosecutor said the plaintiff believed Goldblatt and went to bed with him.
The plaintiff said she told Goldblatt she felt uncomfortable but that he had
sex with her despite her protests.
The prosecutor said the plaintiff began to cry and when she told him she wanted
to go home, he allegedly responded that she was excellent and she "would have
no problem with the scene."
In arguing for the entertainer's remand until the end of proceedings against
him, Mohar said that the accused carried out the alleged crimes using
sophisticated and systematic fraud.
Mohar said the alleged crimes appeared to show a pattern of behavior by which
the accused "drew into his net a large number of young girls" and did not care
what he had to do to get them.
The prosecutor added that the dangerous nature of Goldblatt's alleged acts was
brought into sharper focus by the fact that he allegedly committed sexual
crimes in addition to the charges he now faces, and to which the statute of
limitations applied, and thus could not be prosecuted for now.
