According to prosecutors, three more women have come forward as victims of sexual assault by “NCIS” actor Gabriel Olds

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged actor Gabriel Olds with five additional counts of sexual assault on Monday, bringing the total number of charges against him to 12, after three more women came forward following media coverage of his first arrest, they said Officer.

The new allegations against the 52-year-old actor, who appeared in TV shows such as “Six Feet Under” and “NCIS” as well as in the film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”, involve alleged assaults between 2021 and 2023. He is it faces a dozen felony charges involving six victims. Charges include rape, rape of an unconscious person, sodomy, assault with intent to rape and injury to a girlfriend or other person. Prosecutors say his crimes date back to 2013 and that they are investigating allegations dating back to his time as a student at Yale.

He has been held in custody in lieu of $3.5 million bail since his first arrest on August 4.

In the new charges, prosecutors allege Olds sodomized a woman in September 2021, raped another woman in May 2022 and sexually assaulted another woman in May 2023.

Leonard Levine, Olds’ attorney, wrote in a statement: “Mr. Olds pleaded not guilty to all charges. He insists that any sexual contact he had with the complaining witnesses was always consensual. A fact that the defense wants to establish in court.”

LAPD Det. Brent Hopkins said the new victims contacted investigators after seeing a Times article about Olds’ case. The women were all involved in dating situations with the actor when he allegedly assaulted them. According to prosecutors, the assaults occurred at his home, one of the victim’s homes and a hotel in LA. Hopkins said none of the women knew each other and that some of his victims were in the entertainment industry.

Police began investigating the actor in January 2023 after a 41-year-old woman reported that he raped her in her L.A. home, according to LAPD sex crimes detectives familiar with the case. Investigators later learned of two other women who had made similar allegations since 2013. In each case, the women said dating encounters with Olds resulted in violent sexual assaults.

The woman obtained a restraining order against Olds last year and described her encounter with the actor, according to court documents. The Times is not identifying them because it does not name victims of alleged sex crimes.

In the restraining order application, she alleges that Olds filmed and photographed a non-consensual sexual encounter with her on January 7, 2023.

She also claimed that two weeks later, on January 19, 2023, Olds began choking her during sex and she “asked.” [him] to stop.”

“I fainted. I think he hit me [to] wake up,” she said in the court filing.

She said she woke up and saw Olds putting on a condom and trying to “open my legs,” claiming he only stopped the attack after she vomited on him.

Hopkins said the alleged assaults were “very similar” and that those similarities supported allegations made by the victim last year.

“We heard the same story over and over again,” Hopkins said. “Mr. Olds started out charming, but then turned to brutal violence.”

“Some of these survivors suffered in silence for years before finding the strength to speak out,” Hopkins said.

Hopkins said investigators believe there are more victims because of the large gap between the first two reported assaults in 2013 and last year.

“There was a time when there wasn’t as much understanding about sexual assault. … After #MeToo, there is a lot more awareness, especially in the case of Danny Masterson and Harvey Weinstein,” Hopkins said. “People have a better understanding of what’s OK and what’s not and are more willing to speak out.”

Authorities said Olds, a New York native with screenwriting credits and numerous acting credits dating back to the 1990s, used his status as a Yale-educated actor to seduce the women he met through dating apps. Police say Olds lured the women into a false sense of security during their initial encounters before becoming sexually violent.

Olds is due back in court on September 25th. If convicted of these charges, he could face decades in state prison.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.