Ashton Kutcher, Hollywood star, tells the court that he "panicked" after the death of his former girlfriend

Actor Ashton Kutcher said Wednesday in front of a Los Angeles jury that he was "panicking" after learning that a young woman had been found dead in Hollywood the day after the day he had called home for an appointment.

The former ] The two and a half man star testified as a witness at the trial of a man nicknamed the Hollywood Ripper accused of the murder of the young woman and two others .

Kutcher said he arrived at the Hollywood bungalow. Ashley Ellerin, a fashion design student, on the night of February 22, 2001, after speaking with her by telephone earlier in the evening to arrange an appointment, the Los Angeles City News Service announced.
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But when he arrived two hours after the call, Kutcher said that he had found the lights on and the door locked. Looking through the window, he saw "what I thought was a red wine spilled on the carpet."
"I really did not think so," Kutcher said, adding that he "thought I was wrong" arriving late, and he badumed that Ellerin had gone out with a friend, reported City News. .

Ellerin, 22, was found dead at home the next morning by a roommate. According to the prosecutor, she had been stabbed 47 times.

Kutcher, now 41 years old, said that he had learned what had happened to Ellerin, that he had spoken to the police and that he was "panicking" because he knew that his fingerprints would be on the front door. his home.

Michael Gargiulo is tried in the Los Angeles Superior Court for the murder of Ellerin and two other women and for the attempted murder of another.

Gargiulo, 43, was arrested in 2008. He pleaded not guilty.

In 2001, Kutcher established himself as one of the stars of the television comedy . This show of the 70s . Ten years later, he was selected in the hit comedy Two and a half men .

In 2005, Kutcher married actress Demi Moore. After their divorce in 2013, he married his co-starred That '70 Show Mila Kunis, with whom he has two children.