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LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – Actor Ashton Kutcher said Wednesday in front of a Los Angeles jury that he was in turmoil after learning that a young woman, who was supposed to go with him, had was found dead.
He testified at the trial of a man nicknamed the Hollywood Ripper, accused of his murder and that of two other people.
Kutcher said she arrived at Hollywood bachelor Ashley Ellerin, a fashion design student, on the night of February 22, 2001, after phoning her earlier to make an appointment, the Los Angeles City News reported. Service.
But when he arrived two hours after the call, he found the lights on and the door locked. Looking through the window, he saw "what I thought was red wine spilled on the carpet".
"I really did not think about it," said Kutcher, adding that he thought Ellerin had been dating a friend since his late arrival.
Ellerin, 22, was found dead at home the next morning by a roommate. She was stabbed 47 times, prosecutors said.
Kutcher, now 41 years old, said when he had learned what had happened, that he had talked to the police and that he was "panicking" because that he knew that his fingerprints would be on the front door of her home.
Michael Gargiulo, 43, is on trial for the murders and attempted murder of another person. He was arrested in 2008 and pleaded not guilty.
In 2001, Kutcher emerged as one of the stars of the television comedy That's 70s Show.
Ten years later, he was selected in the hit comedy Two And A Half Men.
In 2005, he married actress Demi Moore. After their divorce in 2013, he married his co-star of That's 70s Show, Mila Kunis, with whom he has two children.
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