San Francisco: Gurbaksh Chahal’s rise from a high school dropout to a 25-year-old Internet mogul who sold his startup for $300 million landed him on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Extra” in segments touting him as a highly eligible bachelor.
That image began crumbling when prosecutors charged him with dozens of felonies in 2013, saying surveillance footage from his San Francisco penthouse showed him punching and kicking his girlfriend 117 times and trying to smother her with a pillow.
Chahal avoided prison, receiving probation instead, after the woman stopped cooperating with authorities and a judge said the video could not be used as evidence.
Now he’s again facing time behind bars after violating his probation by allegedly kicking another girlfriend.
Video of the first attack made it into San Francisco Superior Court, where a judge was set to sentence the 34-year-old on Friday.
Chahal has defended himself against the initial charges, saying he lost his temper but did not hit his girlfriend 117 times.
And his attorneys have attacked the second woman’s credibility, saying she got into a sham marriage to get a U.S. visa and had been drinking the night she said Chahal hit her.
