The bar employee disappeared after he was acquitted in a criminal case arising out of the rape. The Los Angeles Times reports that a jury found the bar 40 percent responsible for the woman’s sexual assault and found the bar employee 60 percent responsible. The woman fled the club after her assault and was found a block away by a Good Samaritan who called police.
The woman is a 43-year-old news producer who says that she was in a unisex bathroom stall at Here Lounge when a club employee burst in and sexually assaulted her. A Santa Monica jury recently awarded a female bar patron $5.42 million after finding that lax rules at a WeHo bar contributed to her 2009 sexual assault.