VENTURA, Calif. (June 22) - Cosmetics heir and former fugitive Andrew Luster left behind a notebook in Mexico in which he apparently seeks to justify the assaults that led to his rape conviction, according to a published report.

The notebook was stored among other belongings at the Puerta Vallarta hotel where Luster last stayed, according to an article published in the Ventura County Star's Sunday edition.

``Yes they were in an extreme state of inebriation and a vid. But this - as any actively sexual person (player) knows is not outside the grounds of ethical play,'' read one passage in the notebook, according to the newspaper.

Editors at the paper said a manager at the Motel Los Angeles allowed their reporter to view the notebook Saturday. The reporter, who had covered Luster's trial, recognized the 13 pages of handwriting as belonging to Luster.

The notebook also contained a ``payback'' list naming his victims and those who prosecuted him, notes on Spanish pickup lines, and the names of people he hoped would send him money, according to the report.

Authorities said the 39-year-old great-grandson of Hollywood makeup legend Max Factor took three women to his seaside home at Mussel Shoals, northwest of Los Angeles, between 1996 and 2000 and attacked them after giving them the so-called date-rape drug GHB. Some of the encounters were videotaped.

After he jumped his $1 million bail in January, a Ventura County Superior Court jury convicted him of multiple counts of rape, poisoning and drug possession.

Luster's attorney said his client has always insisted that he is innocent and that he had consensual sex with the women.

The FBI put him aboard a plane in Mexico and flew him back to California on Thursday, a day after he was captured by bounty hunters.

Luster, who fled the country just days before the verdict five months ago, was arrested by Mexican police after he scuffled with the bounty hunters near a taco stand in the beach resort of Puerto Vallarta.

06/22/03 06:19 EDT

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What a dumbass.  Mexico?  If I was looking at 86 counts of rape, I'd be in some country without an extradition treaty.