’80s Sitcom Star Brian Bonsall Says Man Convicted Of Raping Seven Women Pretended To Be Him: REPORT

“Family Ties” star Brian Bonsall told Investigation Discovery a man who was convicted of raping seven women over a 12-year timespan had claimed to be him, according to reports.

The former child star reflected on the frightening story in an upcoming series, “Hollywood Demons,” in an episode titled “Child Stars Gone Violent,” set to premiere March 31, according to People. Bonsall recalled telling his now-wife, Courtney Tuck, early on that the convicted rapist was “victimizing women” while using his name before he was caught and sentenced to prison for rape, according to Us Weekly.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 09: Actor Brian Bonsall at the The Hollywood Show held at Westin LAX Hotel on April 9, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

Bonsall played the youngest Keaton child on the hit ’80s sitcom “Family Ties” alongside Michael J. Fox. The documentary touched on the pitfalls of fame that he encountered, including a stint in jail for a DUI. The actor said he met a man named Nathan Loebe while in prison. “I remember his crazy eyes,” he said in the documentary, according to People.

“I met him in 2004 in jail when I was in there for my second DUI and was there for a couple or a few nights or whatever and I guess he just got really obsessed with me right off the bat.”

Bonsall told Investigation Discovery that, after his release, women began telling him a man was pretending to be him in an effort to get women out on dates.

The actor detailed an encounter with one particular woman.

“She just looked over at me and said, ‘Oh, you’re the real Brian Bonsall.’ And I said, ‘What does that mean?’ And she said, ‘Well, I dated a guy for three months who was nice at first.’ She had said that he was using my name to coax her into coming over and meeting him.”

Promotional portrait of the cast of the television series, ‘Family Ties,’ circa 1989. L-R: Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael J. Fox and Justine Bateman. (Photo by NBC Television/Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images)

He recalled that she told him the man “had a bunch of my tattoos in the same places.”

“It was the worst thing you want to hear,” Bonsall said in the documentary, according to People.

The situation escalated as more and more women began telling Bonsall of similar incidents, he recounted.

“I started to hear more stories. A friend of mine said she knew someone who dated him and she was locked in a room and forced to watch porn while he did heroin,” he said, Us Weekly reported.

Brian Bonsall publicity portrait from the television series ‘Family Ties’, 1987. (Photo by Paramount/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

“I went to the police in Boulder, Colorado, and I filed a report. He was like, ‘It is not illegal to tell someone you are someone else to have sex with them,’” the actor told Investigation Discovery.

The actor said the police weren’t willing to assist him at the time so he and Tuck took matters into his own hands and eventually enlisted the support of the FBI. They soon discovered a sexual assault allegation in Kentucky and that particular woman’s case contained sufficient evidence to tie Bonsall’s claims to Loebe, according to Us Weekly.

Loebe was eventually arrested in 2017 and later convicted and sentenced to 274 years in prison in 2019 for the rape of seven women, according to the Arizona Daily Star.

“It’s hard to like not cry,” Bonsall said in the series.

“There’s definitely a feeling of guilt. It’s so hard to explain. Those girls, they wanted to go on a date with me because I was a child actor.” (RELATED: REPORT: Andrew Tate’s Girlfriend Bri Stern Files Sexual Assault Report After Alleged Choking Incident)

“It even clicked in my head that I had met this person because of some of the mistakes I made.”