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The disgraced Max Factor heir who was convicted of 86 counts of drugging and raping unconscious women in 2003 is set to be released early after his crimes were reclassified as 'non-violent' under a 2016 law change masterminded by Kamala Harris, DailyMail.com can reveal. Andrew Luster, now 60, infamously fled to Mexico during his rape trial – only to be tracked down by Dog the Bounty Hunter and hauled back to the US in chains. Now one of his victims has bravely come forward in an exclusive interview to talk about her fears at his imminent freedom. Tonja Balden, 51,...

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- The Max Factor cosmetics heir who was convicted of raping three women filed for bankruptcy protection after he was ordered to pay nearly $40 million to two victims. Property records show that Andrew Luster, the 40-year-old great-grandson of cosmetics legend Max Factor, sold his beach house near Santa Barbara for $1,000 several days after he was caught in Mexico. "That doesn't look like a sale to me," attorney Barry Novack, who won a $19 million verdict for one of the women, told the Los Angeles Times for its Friday's editions. Novack said it appeared Luster was...