Adult film star Ron Jeremy indicted on 34 counts of sexual assault

LOS ANGELES — Adult film star Ron Jeremy was indicted Wednesday on 34 counts of sexual assault stemming from allegations made by 23 women over the past 25 years, prosecutors said.

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Jeremy, 68, faces a dozen counts of forcible rape, seven counts of forcible oral copulation, six counts of sexual battery by restraint and various counts of sexual offenses on women with foreign objects or while they were asleep, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing the unsealed indictment.

The oldest alleged assault dates to 1996.

Jeremy, whose legal name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt, also faces one count of committing a lewd act on a minor, the newspaper reported. That stems from an accusation that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at a party in San Clarita, California.

Jeremy pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday to all of the allegations, according to Variety.

Jeremy continues to await trial on charges that could result in a prison sentence of more than 300 years, the website reported. He has been held at Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles since June 2020 and remains there on $6.6 million bail, Variety reported.

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The indictment was returned Thursday, prosecutors said. Jeremy is due in court again on Oct. 12, the Times reported.

Jeremy was first charged in June 2020 with sexual assaults against four women, Variety reported. Jeremy is accused of using his celebrity to prey upon vulnerable victims in bars along the Sunset Strip, according to the Times.

Over the next few weeks, investigators with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and the district attorney’s office said they received dozens of additional complaints of sexual misconduct involving Jeremy, the newspaper reported.

Six other women told the Times last year that they had been assaulted or groped by Jeremy at clubs or adult film conventions throughout the United States. A number of women came forward with sexual assault allegations against Jeremy in a Rolling Stone story published in November 2017. At the time, Jeremy said, “I have never and would never rape anyone.”

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