Porn star Ron Jeremy has been charged with forcibly raping three women and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents dating back to 2014, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced Tuesday.
Jeremy, 67, was charged with three counts each of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery.
The case was filed for warrant on Monday.
Jeremy’s manager, Dante Rusciolelli, said that he’s dropping the actor as a client.
“When Rolling Stone charged Ron with being in the ME TOO movement, he showed us proof against the allegations,” Rusciolelli said in the statement.
“At the time, the police and District Attorneys backed Ron up,” Rusciolelli claimed. This time, however, “the District Attorney in Los Angeles is bringing charges of sexual misconduct against him, and we were not given any proof of his innocence at this time.”
“We hope that these allegations against him are not true, but if they are, we hope that he is prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
Jeremy surrendered to the court Tuesday and was being held in a Los Angeles County jail with bail tentatively set at $6.6 million. His arraignment was postponed until Friday.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau spent two years investigating the allegations against Jeremy, according to a statement from the sheriff’s department.
Jeremy, who was born Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, stands accused of forcibly raping a 25-year-old woman at a home in West Hollywood in May 2014.
He also is charged with allegedly sexually assaulting two women, ages 33 and 46, on separate occasions at a West Hollywood bar in 2017, as well as forcibly raping a 30-year-old woman at the same bar in July 2019.
Names of the alleged victims were not released, and prosecutors recommend bail of $6.6 million.
If convicted, the actor faces a possible maximum sentence of 90 years to life in state prison. The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
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