Internet millionaire Gurbaksh Chahal, who was charged with dozens of domestic violence counts, allegedly hit and kicked his girlfriend 117 times over a half-hour period Monday morning, according to prosecutors, adding the entire assault was caught on video. According to court documents, prosecutors said Chahal was angry when he learned his girlfriend had gone to Las Vegas with another man and cheated on him.
SAN FRANCISCO – Gurbaksh Chahal, the multi-millionaire Internet mogul, was charged with dozens of domestic violence counts on August 5.
He allegedly hit and kicked his girlfriend 117 times over a half-hour period Monday morning, according to prosecutors, adding the entire assault was caught on video.
Chahal, who was once featured on the “Oprah Winfrey Show”, has been charged with 47 counts related to domestic violence.
Court records show 31-year-old Gurbaksh Chahal is accused of assaulting a girlfriend in his Rincon Hill home on Monday. He’s charged with 45 felonies, including 41 counts of assault and domestic violence.
Stuart Gordon, one of Chahal’s attorneys, told the San Francisco Chronicle the incident was just an argument that got out of hand and the charges “are entirely unjustified and blown out of proportion.”
When he was on “Oprah” in 2010, he was billed as one of the world’s youngest and wealthiest entrepreneurs, having started his first company at age 16.
Chahal, 31, of Rincon Hill, the chief executive of online advertising company RadiumOne, also allegedly prevented the young woman from breathing for 20 seconds during a dispute prosecutors said was fueled by jealousy.
On Friday morning, August 9, Chahal pleaded not guilty to 47 counts stemming from the dispute at Chahal’s home at The Infinity Towers.
A judge raised his bail from $125,000 to $1 million, ordered him to stay away from his girlfriend and seized his passport, according to prosecutors.
He is out of custody after posting the $1 million bail.
According to court documents, prosecutors said Chahal was angry when he learned his girlfriend had gone to Las Vegas with another man and cheated on him.
The alleged attack reportedly occurred about 10:30 a.m. in his home. He beat her, pulled her hair and threatened to kill her despite multiple pleas from the victim, the court documents said.
She called 911 when he left the room, prosecutors said, and commented to investigators that when police rang the doorbell she was “saved by the bell.”
Police reportedly seized surveillance video from cameras inside the bedroom. The video provides a “grisly picture” of the attack, prosecutors said.
The girlfriend told police it wasn’t the first domestic violence incident. The most recent attack, she claimed, occurred July 4 when he allegedly busted her lip.
On his website, Chahal calls himself a “die-hard entrepreneur” and says he founded his first company, ClickAgents, when he dropped out of high school at age 16.
He sold that company for $40 million, and then founded BlueLithium, in 2004, which he sold to Yahoo for $300 million in 2007.
In 2010 the homeowners association of the Infinity Towers condominiums, where Chahal lives, sued him for allegedly verbally assaulting a woman working in the building’s lobby and taking her key card from her without permission. The lawsuit also alleged that he played loud music throughout the night and would drop cigar ash onto the balcony of his neighbor downstairs, one time into the neighbor’s eye.
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