Yehuda Berg

He was later found liable in a civil suit and ordered to pay damages to his victim for inflicting malice and intentional harm.

Until May 2014, he was co-director of the Kabbalah Centre, founded by his father Rav Shraga Feivel (Philip) Berg.

She claimed that Berg offered her alcohol and Vicodin while she visited him at his home and then made sexual advances.

[1] In November 2015 a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found that Berg had acted with malice and was liable for intentional infliction of emotional distress and therefore, he was ordered to pay $135,000, which included a punitive damages component.

[1][2] The Kabbalah Centre itself was also ordered to pay $42,500 for being negligent in its supervision of Berg, who was one of its co-directors at the time of the alleged assault.