Porn actor Ron Jeremy charged with 20 new counts of sex abuse including assault of teen and 12 more

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Porn actor Ron Jeremy has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and a dozen more women aged up to 54 in incidents dating back 16 years, Los Angeles prosecutors said Monday.

The controversial star, who appeared in over 1,700 hardcore movies, had already been charged in June with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth.

His arrest and court appearance at the time prompted 25 new claims against the 67-year-old in just three days. Only 13 of them were in LA County, including a claim from a 21-year-old woman saying she was assaulted outside a Hollywood business in January this year.

Jeremy pleaded not guilty to the earlier charges and was expected to do the same for 20 new counts in California on Monday.

Jeremy was being transported from county jail to court at Department 50 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center for his latest arraignment Monday and will plead not guilty to the latest charges, his attorney told AFP. 

The 20 new charges date back to 2004, when Jeremy allegedly sexually assaulted an unnamed teenage girl at a party in Santa Clarita, just outside Los Angeles.

The alleged victims are aged between 15 and 54, and most recently include an alleged sexual assault outside a business in Hollywood on New Year’s Day this year.

The latest charges include six counts of sexual battery by restraint, five counts of forcible rape, three counts of forcible oral copulation, two counts of forcible penetration by a foreign object and one count each of sodomy, assault with intent to commit rape, penetration by a foreign object on an unconscious or sleeping victim and lewd conduct with a 15-year-old girl.

Of the new complaints, six counts relate to alleged assaults in a West Hollywood bar and another in the venue’s parking lot.

If convicted, the defendant – who now faces 28 total counts of sexual violence in Los Angeles county – could face 250 years to life in prison.

Jeremy – whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt – appeared in famous adult movies including ‘Deep Throat II’ and ‘John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut.’

With his trademark mustache, he was one of the adult industry’s most recognizable stars among the wider public.

The LA Times reports that since the allegations, six more women from the adult entertainment industry have come forward with claims of sexual assault at the hands of Jeremy. 

The publication added that in July the LA County Sheriff’s Department told them there were 30 claims against him dating back 20 years.

Lianne Young told the outlet of the night Jeremy allegedly sneaked up behind her on the Sunset Strip in 2000.

The adult performer, who went by the name ‘Billie Britt’, was dressed in a bikini at the former House of Blues during a porn industry Halloween party when she says Jeremy shoved her onto a table and forced himself inside her.

According to Young, the ordeal last only a matter of seconds, as she fought Jeremy off of her. Young, now 45, said at least three other industry execs watched the assault unfold, however none of them reacted.

‘People were just like, “That’s Ron”,’ Young said. 

Alana Evans, president of the Adult Performers Actors Guild, said she was at the same party where Young accused Jeremy of raping her, and says Young told her shortly after the incident happened in the early 2000s. 

Fellow adult entertainer Elle Hell said she was too fearful of Jeremy’s pull in the porn industry to speak out when he reportedly attacked her in Chicago, in 2014.

The Times said a number of the alleged victims they spoke to said Jeremy crossed lines of consent almost immediately upon meeting them.

Sabrina Alvarado, who has modeled for playboy and is better known as Marcela Latinbabe said she first met Jeremy at the Exxxotica Expo in New Jersey, in 2015.

Alvarado said she approached Jeremy to ask for a photo. Immediately, he’s said to have grabbed her breast and put them into his mouth. She provided the outlet with copies of the photos.

Alvarado said she did not give Jeremy permission to touch her and was shaken up by his behavior.  

Property Management worker Charity Carson-Hawke told Rolling Stone magazine that she had been friends with Jeremy for years before he allegedly attempted to grope her when she visited him at his hotel on May 4, 2020.

According to Carson-Hawke, they were in his hotel room with a few other people, when Jeremy said he wanted to show her something. She followed him into what she thought was another room, which turned out to be a bathroom.

She says Jeremy then slammed the door behind him, pinned her against a wall and tried to grope her.

‘He was trying to put my hand on his penis,’ she alleges. ‘I’m just like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ I’m screaming at him and fighting.’

Carson-Hawke says she became entangled in a struggle with Jeremy, until she managed to squeeze out of his grasp and walk out the door.

He has long been dogged by assault claims and barred from industry events in recent years.

The initial charges – three counts each of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery – were brought against Jeremy in June. They date back to alleged incidents in 2000.

His attorney Stuart Goldfarb denied all the allegations and insisted his client was ‘not a rapist.’

‘Ron — over the years, because of who he is — has essentially been a paramour to over 4,000 women. And to allege that he is a rapist is beyond… I mean, women throw themselves at him,’ he added.

Jeremy himself tweeted in June that he was ‘innocent of all charges’ and couldn’t wait to ‘prove my innocence in court!’

Jeremy is the latest high-profile entertainment industry figure to be investigated for sexual abuse in Los Angeles since the #MeToo movement began in 2017. Sex worker advocate Ginger Banks released a video with evidence and anecdotes.

Los Angeles prosecutors earlier this year filed charges against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

At least 20 men in the entertainment industry are reported to be part of a Los Angeles district attorney’s taskforce set up in the wake of the #MeToo movement. 

Earlier this month a woman who met Jeremy in 2017 said she went to his rundown one bedroom apartment to use the restroom and was so shocked by what she saw she began snapping pictures.

‘It was disgusting, I was so shocked. You could hardly open the front door and you couldn’t get in the bathroom at all,’ she told DailyMail.com.

‘There was trash piled up, old porn memorabilia stuffed in overflowing boxes. His kitchen table looked like an unkempt outside porch, there were plants that had grown around the table legs and into the floor.

‘I honestly thought he was on that show Hoarders. There were cans of roach spray left on the side, piles of medication, books, DVDs, paperwork and he had pet turtles.’

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