More sex assault charges filed against adult film actor Ron Jeremy
The seven new counts, which add to others previously filed, involve six victims dating to 1996, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors said they have filed seven additional sexual assault counts against adult film actor Ron Jeremy, which together with previous charges carry a maximum sentence of more than 300 years in prison.
The seven new counts, filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, involve six women and go back to 1996, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
They add to other charges previously filed against Jeremy, 67, whose real name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt. If convicted on all of the more than 30 counts, Jeremy faces a maximum possible sentence of 330 years to life in prison, the district attorney's office said.
The new charges include three counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation and one count each of sexual battery by restraint and assault with intent to commit forcible digital penetration, the district attorney's office said in a statement Wednesday.
In all, prosecutors allege that there were 23 victims in crimes from 1996 to 2020.
Jeremy's attorney, Stuart Goldfarb, said he was surprised by the additional charges. "They are more of the same, and why they are piling on at this juncture is strange," he said.
"He doesn't deny being with some of these women, but it was consensual," Goldfarb said.
The new charges, which span 17 years, involve alleged victims ages 17 to 38, according to the district attorney's office.
Jeremy is accused of having raped a 19-year-old woman during a photo shoot in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles in 1996. He is also accused of having raped a woman at a party at a nightclub and a 17-year-old at a home in the Woodland Hills neighborhood.
Jeremy was arrested and charged in June. Later, more counts were filed. He was being held in lieu of $6.6 million bail Wednesday night, according to online Los Angeles County sheriff's records.
Goldfarb said he expects the case to go to trial rather than be settled some other way, as in a plea agreement.
Jeremy was a teacher from Queens, New York, whose career in porn was launched when a girlfriend sent nude photos of him to Playgirl. He has appeared in nearly 2,000 X-rated films, as well as some mainstream movies.
