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A Broward jury has ordered a Lighthouse Point man to pay $1.1 million to a woman he raped after incapacitating her with chloroform when she worked at his Pembroke Pines pet shop in 1995.

The woman filed a lawsuit against Bianculli in 2022 after learning, because of a separate criminal investigation against Bianculli, that he had saved a videotape of their encounter. The woman, who was 17 at the time (Bianculli was 48), went to police at the time, but the state declined to prosecute because they did not think a jury would believe the encounters she described were nonconsensual.

That was before the tape was discovered by Bianculli’s son and turned over to prosecutors. In 2015, Bianculli was accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl over a six-

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