Onetime playboy prosecutor, now convicted rapist, gets 5 to 10 in state prison

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mary Ames today sentenced former assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Gary Zerola to 5 to 10 years in state prison following his conviction last month for raping a woman in her Beacon Hill apartment in 2021.

Zerola, whom People magazine once declared one of America's most eligible bachelors when he worked as an assistant DA in Suffolk and Essex counties back at the turn of the century, had either been found not guilty or had charges dropped in several earlier sexual-attack cases.