Ron Jeremy charged with multiple counts of rape
Porn star Ron Jeremy has been criminally charged in a series
of sex attacks, which he allegedly committed on women he met in the Hollywood
area over the past six years, the Los Angeles County district attorney
announced Tuesday.
The 63-year-old smut film legend was scheduled to be
arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles County Superior Court on three
counts each of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object, and
one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, officials said.
The counts against Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy
Hyatt, include the alleged rape of a 30-year-old woman at a West Hollywood bar
in July 2019, according to the Los Angeles DA’s Office.
Two years earlier, Jeremy allegedly sexually assaulted two
women, ages 33 and 46, at the same bar, court papers charge.
In May 2014, he allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman at a
home in West Hollywood, officials said.
Jeremy has been dogged by sexual misconduct allegations,
with more than a dozen women having publicly accused him of sexual assault. The
Los Angeles DA previously said the office was investigating the allegations.
In 2018, Kristin Brodie, then 22, sued Jeremy in Washington
state for allegedly sexually assaulting her during an event at a Tacoma sex
shop the previous year, People magazine reported.
Brodie, who was working at the event as a promotional model
for a Seattle radio station, said in the lawsuit that Jeremy groped her breast
and buttocks then “forcefully” digitally penetrated her, according to the
magazine.
The young woman sued Jeremy after local authorities declined
to file criminal charges against him for the alleged assaults, the report said.
At the time, Jeremy’s lawyer said his client denied the
allegations.
Prosecutors are expected to recommend bail of $6.6 million.
If convicted, Jeremy, who stands 5 feet 6 and whose net worth is reportedly
about $6 million, faces a possible maximum sentence of 90 years to life in
prison.
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