Cosmetics heir ordered to pay US$19m to rape victim

$19 million damages: An heir of cosmetics legend Max Factor was ordered to pay US$19 million ($32.71 million) to a California woman he was convicted of drugging and raping six years ago in a videotaped attack.

Authorities said Andrew Luster gave the 23-year-old woman the date-rape drug GHB and then videotaped himself having sex with her in 1997.

Luster, 39, is the great-grandson of Max Factor. He jumped his $1 million bail in January, shortly before a jury convicted him in absentia of drugging and raping three women in his seaside Mussels Shoal home northwest of Los Angeles.

A bounty hunter caught him five months later in Mexico.