Danny Masterson’s former stepdad, Joe Reaiche, challenged his kids’s claims about him in the course of the former That ‘70s Present star’s sexual assault trial.
“It’s bulls–t. They perjured themselves,” Joe instructed The Daily Beast in an interview on Sunday, September 10. “They make it sound like I walked out and deserted them and that Danny was the hero.”
Throughout his interview, Joe claimed that his two youngsters, Jordan Masterson and Alanna Masterson, lied about their relationship with their father. Joe shares his kids with ex-wife Carol Masterson.
“Carol filed for divorce in 1995 in Los Angeles. Jordan was born in 1986. He was 9, not 6. There’s the primary incorrect factor,” Joe instructed the outlet. “They have been truly making a living, and I used to be giving them cash. Carol was their supervisor. … I paid for his or her summer season faculty at that costly Scientology faculty in Oregon, Delphi. That was $5,000 every. And I took them all over the place. I slept on couches so the children could be nice.”
Joe claimed that Jordan, 37, and Alanna, 35, wrote to Decide Charlaine Olmedo that their father was not current of their lives after he and Carol divorced. On the finish of his interview, the daddy of two famous, “I’m going to need to sue my kids, sadly. That’s the place that is going. It’s the one method I can clear my identify.”
Alanna and Jordan are Danny’s half-siblings, along with his different half-brother, Will Masterson. Danny additionally has a organic brother: Christopher Masterson. Ex-spouses Carol Peter Masterson share Danny and Christopher, 43.
The Masterson siblings and Danny’s spouse, Bijou Phillips, remained a united entrance all through their older brother’s trial, by which he was convicted of two counts of rape in Could. On September 7, Danny was sentenced to 30 years to life in jail. Every cost consisted of 15 years to life, and Danny will serve the 2 phrases consecutively.
Although Danny persistently claimed he was harmless all through the trial, the choose addressed him when she supplied his sentencing.
“Mr. Masterson, you aren’t the sufferer right here,” she mentioned. “Your actions 20 years in the past took away one other particular person’s voice and selection. Your actions 20 years in the past have been legal, and that’s the reason you’re right here.”