By JAMES QUEALLYSTAFF WRITER
JUNE 23, 2020
11:12 AM
Ron Jeremy, one of the most iconic figures in the adult entertainment industry, has been charged with sexually assaulting four women in West Hollywood since 2014, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Jeremy, whose legal name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, was charged with three counts of forcible rape and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Prosecutors allege Jeremy attacked a 25-year-old woman at a West Hollywood home in 2014. Prosecutors also accused Jeremy of sexually assaulting two women at a West Hollywood bar in 2017, and raping a woman at the same bar in July 2019.
Prosecutors previously declined to charge Jeremy after investigating an alleged rape in 2016 due to “insufficient evidence,” according to a one-page memo explaining the decision. In that case, a woman alleged she was intoxicated at a club when Jeremy separated her from her friends and raped her.
The other women lived outside the country and refused to be interviewed, documents show.
Jeremy is scheduled to make his first appearance in the case in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday afternoon. If convicted, he could face up to 90 years in prison.
Jeremy is one of the best known adult film stars in history, having appeared in hundreds of pornographic films. He has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women in recent years, but has denied all allegations. In 2017, he told Rolling Stone the claims were either “pure lies or buyer’s remorse.”
CALIFORNIA
JUNE 23, 2020
11:12 AM
Ron Jeremy, one of the most iconic figures in the adult entertainment industry, has been charged with sexually assaulting four women in West Hollywood since 2014, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Jeremy, whose legal name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, was charged with three counts of forcible rape and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Prosecutors allege Jeremy attacked a 25-year-old woman at a West Hollywood home in 2014. Prosecutors also accused Jeremy of sexually assaulting two women at a West Hollywood bar in 2017, and raping a woman at the same bar in July 2019.
Prosecutors previously declined to charge Jeremy after investigating an alleged rape in 2016 due to “insufficient evidence,” according to a one-page memo explaining the decision. In that case, a woman alleged she was intoxicated at a club when Jeremy separated her from her friends and raped her.
The other women lived outside the country and refused to be interviewed, documents show.
Jeremy is scheduled to make his first appearance in the case in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday afternoon. If convicted, he could face up to 90 years in prison.
Jeremy is one of the best known adult film stars in history, having appeared in hundreds of pornographic films. He has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women in recent years, but has denied all allegations. In 2017, he told Rolling Stone the claims were either “pure lies or buyer’s remorse.”
CALIFORNIA