The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office recently announced that a Sherman Oaks man that appeared on the reality TV show “Millionaire Matchmaker” was charged today with the sexual assault of three women.
Michael Leslie Bernback faces eight felony counts: one count each of sexual penetration by a foreign object, attempted sodomy by use of force, forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, rape by use of drugs and rape of unconscious person, as well as two counts of administering drugs to commit rape.
The incidents are alleged to have occurred to three different women on March 23, 2014, Sept. 27, 2014 and Aug. 11, 2015.
Bernback has also been charged with three misdemeanor counts of posessing three different controlled substances: MDMA, GHB, and cocaine. If convicted as charged, Bernback faces a possible maximum sentence of multiple life terms in state prison. Bail has been set at $2.1 million.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department, Van Nuys Station.
by Heejung Lim