The actor Craig McLachlan is accused of indecent assault and other offenses

The actor Craig McLachlan has been charged with indecent assault and other offenses.

The Victoria Police announced that a 53-year-old NSW man had been charged with a common law assault charge, eight counts of indecent assault and a charge of attempted murder. ;molestation.

He was charged with appearing before the Melbourne Court of First Instance on 8 February.

McLachlan sued the ABC and Fairfax Media last year after publishing allegations of harassment of female performers who had worked with him during the theatrical production of the Rocky Horror Show. A trial was to begin on February 4th.

McLachlan, who won Gold Logie in 1990 as the most popular personality of Australian television, has become a household name after performing lovable larrikin Henry Ramsay in the television show Neighbors alongside the # 39; pop icon Kylie Minogue.

He also released the song I Need You Baby (Mona) and toured the United Kingdom and Europe with his band Check 1-2.

The song climbed to third place on the Australian chart and McLachlan received an ARIA award for the best-selling song of the year in 1990.

McLachlan then starred in Home and Away, Packed to the Rafters and in the BBC One spy drama. He appeared alongside Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones and Omar Sharif in the 1996 television movie Catherine the Great.

Along the way, he has had a successful career in musical theater, appearing in productions by Grease, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chicago, and in the Australian production of the Rocky Horror Show as Frank-N-Furter, for whom he won the Helpmann Award for Best Man. Actor in a musical comedy.

Most recently, he appeared on the ABC television show The Doctor Blake Mysteries in the lead role of Dr. Lucien Blake, who returned home to Ballarat in the 1950s to resume the duties of his father's doctor. .

The series returned to the show last year without McLachlan in the lead role and was renamed The Blake Mysteries. It has since been reported that Seven would abandon the series.