NCIS actor choked and raped me… and I feared he would kill me if I didn’t escape, accuser tells court

A woman was raped two times by NCIS actor Gabriel Olds at his Hollywood Hills home during a terrifying first date ordeal, a court was told.   

During searing, gut-wrenching testimony, she described being choked and falling unconscious and that she feared the NCIS star was going to kill her before she managed to flee.

The alleged victim, known as Jane Doe #2 (JD2), was visibly distressed and could be heard panicking and breathing deeply before entering Department 82 at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Eight of her supporters sat in the public gallery clutching stuffed toys – including a fluffy elephant, sheep, monkey and a polar bear – in a silent show of defiant support.

Wearing a beige cotton dress with a matching belt and blue jacket, the woman mostly avoided eye contact with Yale graduate Olds, who was dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit with shackles as he sat next to his attorneys.

The 53-year-old is charged with multiple counts of rape, sodomy and committing other graphic sex crimes on five women between 2014 and 2023 before his arrest in August last year. He has pleaded not guilty.

Former NCIS actor Gabriel Olds stared into the camera during an earlier hearing on July 29 hearing over charges he raped and sexually abused a number of women between March 2017 and May 2022

JD2, who had her blonde hair parted in the middle and tied back in plaids, told prosecutor Jeffrey Megee that she had met the accused in March 2013 during a two-day work conference in Universal City in Los Angeles for Yale graduates and entertainment industry workers.

She recalled how the ‘charming’ actor had pursued her on both days of the conference in a flirtatious manner.

‘He appeared normal,’ she told the court. ‘He appeared like any other middle aged person in the industry in Los Angeles.’

She did, though, have a concern.

‘There was something strange which hasn’t happened to me before or since,’ she told the court.

‘Every time he spoke to me I had a little voice in my head that questioned his motives – his motives behind what he was saying, which was so strange.’

She joined him for a meal in Koreantown at the end of the second day, which was ‘unremarkable’ and during which Olds ‘bragged about being a martial arts blackbelt.’

Afterwards, he walked JD2 to her car and they shared a ‘soulless’ kiss.

Olds, then 52, appeared disbelieving of his arrest in his August, 2024 booking photo

Jane Doe #2 told a court of Olds: ‘He appeared like any other middle aged person in the industry in Los Angeles.’

A week later, he asked her on a dinner date which she agreed to ‘to my deep regret.’

He suggested they go to his favorite southern BBQ joint because she grew up in the Deep South but by the time they arrived the restaurant was closing so they ordered take out. 

She then followed him in her car back to his rented basement apartment at a house in the Hollywood Hills.

‘As a trusting person I believed I was going there to eat dinner and to get to know him better,’ said JD2, adding there was no alcohol or drugs involved.

They sat on his sofa in a lounge area with his bed a few feet away in the same space off to the side. There was no discussion about sex and ‘nothing untoward happened.’

After finishing her food, ‘Everything changed and the world flipped upside down and I was no longer a person, I was an object.

Olds, pictured at the 2016 San Diego International Film Festival

Olds at the premiere of Apartment 407 in Los Angeles in 2018, during the same time when he was engaged in violent sexual encounters with Jane Doe #6, one of his rape accusers 

Olds shown acting in an episode of NCIS

‘I suddenly was no longer a human being sitting there. That was so horrific and impossible and unexplainable that I went into a void.’

She described how Olds picked her up by her arms and moved her approximately six feet onto the bed.

‘When I came back to my body and had awareness again I was naked lying on my back on his bed and he was in the process of raping me and choking me,’ she told the court. 

‘I never consented to have any sexual relations,’ she added. 

‘I am a woman in society and I have been harassed and assaulted multiple times. I have experienced male violence before – but I had never experienced anything like this.’

She called out ‘No!’ to Olds to make him stop. He ‘understood,’ she recalled, and he took his hand away from her throat.

‘He was stopping and then he put it back and choked me again in a way that I was immediately rendered unconscious as he continued to rape me,’ she continued.

As she he regained consciousness, she was in the process of having a grand mal seizure – which she had never had before or since.

‘When I came back to consciousness my limbs, arms and legs, were flailing uncontrollably,’ she said.

She demonstrated the spasms while seated on the stand by violently moving her arms violently up and down.

The assault, which lasted up to 10 minutes, finally ended when Olds climaxed and he ‘rolled off me onto his back.

‘I thought he was going to murder me,’ said the woman, visibly shaken. ‘I laid there frozen in terror. I believed he was going to kill me.’

Olds held an acclaimed role as controversial preacher Pat Robertson alongside Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield in the 2021 indie film The Eyes of Tammy Faye

She described how he her attacker then became ‘talkative’ and told her he was unable to get an erection unless he was ‘dominating someone.’

JD2 said she remained silent in order to not provoke Olds. ‘I was trying to live for a few more minutes,’ she added.

He then raped her again, the court heard.

‘I was trying to do whatever I needed to do to live a little longer,’ she said. 

‘I was mortally afraid…more afraid by orders of magnitude than I had ever been in my life and I remain afraid to this day.

After he climaxed for a second time he ‘rolled off me again onto his back.

‘There was a change in energy and all of a sudden for the first time there was the possibility that I might escape.

Olds appeared alongside Rose McGowan in the popular Charmed TV show

‘He lay there on the bed looking very content.

‘I was in complete survival mode…focused on getting out alive.’

At that point she was able to gather her clothes and quickly leave.

Afterwards she tried to discuss the horrific experience with a family member and then a friend but the confidants were ‘dismissive’ and so she ‘shut down.’

Old’s reached out to her two weeks later and ‘acted as if everything was normal.’ He wanted to ‘go on a date and be in a relationship.’

At that point JD2 felt ‘entirely divorced from reality. Reality had been blown into shards in 3D.’

She reiterated to Olds that she had clearly told him ‘No!’ during their previous encounter.

‘He started explaining to me how no does not mean no,’ she told the court.

She felt ‘psychologically manipulated’ and that Olds had ‘twisted my reality.’ 

Although still in shock, she ‘naively’ believed that if she met with Olds to discuss the previous encounter she could ‘make sense’ of what had occurred and things would ‘click’ but it did not work. 

‘I was terrified to be alone with him,’ said. ‘My world was upside down and inside out.’

At this point during testimony she briefly looked up at Olds across the court room for the first time as he stared back expressionless.

In December 2014, she was contacted by a woman who also knew the accused.

‘She said what do you know about Gabriel Olds?’ said JD2.

Olds and Steve Pieters attend ‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’ Los Angeles Special Screening on September 16, 2021. Olds portrayed a young Pat Robertson, who was a well known evangelical televangelist. The film went on to win two Oscars

After speaking with the woman – Jane Doe #3 – and learning of more claims against the actor, ‘it was like a magic wand and all of a sudden all these pieces came back together.

‘From that point on I was no longer in this twisted reality. That was when I learned the scale and the scope of his crimes.

‘I knew that I had to do something because of all the other women he would attack.’

The mutual acquaintance revealed to her that Olds ‘targets actors, single mothers and college girls.’

JD2 recounted that she had been advised by a family friend, a retired New York Police Department officer, to not report Olds to police because she would be ‘retraumatized.’

She did not go to a doctor about her seizure because she was ‘so traumatized it never occurred to me.’

She described feeling under ‘emotional duress’ in court during her testimony. 

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Jeremy Babich, JD2 was asked if Olds had suggested to her on their first night together at his home that BDSM sex with him would help to bring down her barriers.

Stunned by the question, she scoffed back ‘No!’

She said she couldn’t remember if she and Olds had kissed before he took her to the bed where he allegedly raped her.

‘I was completely terrified and in such deep trauma because I believed he was going to kill me,’ she told Babich.

Olds is being held on $3.5 million bail at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s North County Correctional Facility, a maximum-security complex.

If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The hearing continues.