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The 45-year-old was found guilty in August 2019 of murdering 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin in 2001 and 32-year-old Maria Bruno in 2005. He was also found guilty in the attempted murder of Michelle Murphy in 2008 and awaits trial in Illinois, where he was charged in 2011 with the murder of an 18-year-old woman. Gargiulo’s case received national attention because one of his victims, Ellerin, was due to go on a date with Kutcher on the night she was killed in February 2001. The fashion design student was found in her Hollywood home with 47 stab wounds. In December 2005, Gargiulo murdered Bruno, a mother of four, in her home in El Monte.
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image captionA Los Angeles judge says death and destruction followed Michael Gargiulo
A convicted murderer nicknamed the Hollywood Ripper has been sentenced to death for killing two women in the 2000s.
Relatives of his victims wept as a judge gave Michael Gargiulo the sentence in Los Angeles on Friday.
Ashley Ellerin, 22, and Maria Bruno, 32, were both stabbed to death in their California homes.
Gargiulo was caught after another potential victim, Michelle Murphy, then 26, managed to fight him off.
He fled the scene, but left some blood behind - enabling police to track him down.
At Friday s sentencing, Ms Murphy broke down, telling the court how spending the night alone creates a world of fear in me more than a decade later.