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A Massachusetts<\/a> attorney once named as one of People magazine\u2019s most eligible bachelors faces rape charges, and his trial began Tuesday in Boston.<\/p>\n

Gary Zerola, 51, a former prosecutor and lawyer, faces allegations that he raped a 23-year-old woman<\/a>, putting him behind the bench in the role of defendant, and not attorney.<\/p>\n

He has pleaded not guilty to the two rape charges brought against him by the woman, who took the stand<\/a> on the first day of the trial, according to WFXT Boston 25 News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ATTORNEY ONCE ON PEOPLE’S \u2018MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR\u2019 LIST CHARGED WITH RAPE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The victim told police she partied with her friends one night in the North End in 2016, and later woke up to Zerola taking her clothes off and assaulting her<\/a> in his friend\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n

“This was no stranger,” the station reported Assistant District Attorney Thomas Brant as saying. “This was also no consent for what Gary Zerola did to her.”<\/p>\n

Zerola\u2019s attorney, Rosemary Scapicchio, on the other hand, reportedly said the victim lied.<\/p>\n

NJ LAWYER TIED TO BOSTON COLD-CASE RAPES THROUGH DRINKING GLASS, PROSECUTORS REVEAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Plain and simple, she is a liar,” Scapicchio said. “The story you just heard from the commonwealth doesn\u2019t tell half of what happened.”<\/p>\n

Zerola previously worked as a district attorney in Essex County for a year, and Suffolk County for two months in 2000.<\/p>\n

When the charges were brought against him in 2021, Zerola had been freed on $10,000 bail for allegedly raping another woman in 2016. He pleaded not guilty to that case.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors also said two additional women have claimed Zerola raped them in the 1990s, and he has been acquitted in separate rape and attempted rape cases in Massachusetts. A prior sex assault case against him was also dropped in Florida.<\/p>\n

In 2001, Zerola, then 29, was featured in People as one of “America\u2019s Top 50 Bachelors” alongside actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.<\/p>\n

Zerola was a lawyer and foster care advocate who set up his own law practice following nearly two years as a Massachusetts prosecutor. <\/p>\n

He noted his challenging childhood in an interview, saying he lived in more than 12 foster homes from age 3 through 15.<\/p>\n

“Statistically speaking, I should be in debt or in jail because of the upbringing I had,” Zerola told People.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/massachusetts-rape-trial-begins-against-attorney-listed-peoples-top-50-most-eligible-bachelors <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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