Frenzied tabloid case ends quietly: Plea deal, probation for former Orange County surgeon Grant Robicheaux
by Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times
Nov 29, 2023
3 minutes
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More than five years ago, Orange County's top prosecutor stood before the cameras and declared Grant Robicheaux a prolific sex criminal — a hand surgeon accused of weaponizing his looks and reality-TV celebrity to lure women, then drugging and assaulting them. More than a dozen accusers had come forward, the district attorney said, alleging that Robicheaux had left a trove of evidence by videotaping his crimes.
The case that began in 2018 with a tabloid frenzy took a wild, twisting road to collapse, ending in a Fullerton courtroom Wednesday with a plea deal on non-sex-related charges
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