A United States grand jury has indicted grownup movie actor Ron Jeremy on extra than 30 counts of sexual assault involving 21 ladies and girls throughout extra than two a long time, authorities said.
Jeremy, 68, whose legal identify is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, pleaded not responsible in Los Angeles Outstanding Courtroom on Wednesday to all of the allegations, which include things like 12 counts of rape.
The indictment, which was returned Aug. 19 and unsealed Wednesday, covers allegations relationship from 1996 to 2019 with victims aged 15 to 51. The counts look to be equivalent to charges submitted towards Jeremy past 12 months, which he also denied.
In a tactical move also utilized in their situation towards Harvey Weinstein, L.A. County prosecutors utilised key grand jury proceedings to get an indictment that replaces the authentic charges, allowing for them to skip a community preliminary hearing on the evidence and continue to trial.
Defence law firm Stuart Goldfarb said in an email that Jeremy’s “position is the very same as when the legal complaint was submitted. He is harmless of all the charges.”
Jeremy has been held in jail on $6.6 million US bail given that his arrest in June 2020.
The indictment incorporates allegations that Jeremy raped a 19-12 months-previous girl in the course of a picture shoot in 1996, raped a 26-12 months-previous girl at a nightclub in 2003 and raped a seventeen-12 months-previous girl at a house in 2008.
He is also charged with sexually assaulting a 15-12 months-previous girl in 2004.
No trial day has been established. Jeremy was advised to return to court docket in October for a pretrial hearing.
Nicknamed “The Hedgehog,” Jeremy has been amongst the finest-known and most prolific performers in the porn market for a long time, showing in hundreds of films given that the 1970s. He has also produced common appearances in mainstream films and on truth Television set reveals.
Along with Weinstein, he is a person of only a several adult males investigated and charged by a district attorney’s activity drive fashioned to consider on sexual misconduct in the entertainment market as the #MeToo period attained momentum in late 2017.
Weinstein has pleaded not responsible to ten counts of sexual assault and is also awaiting trial. A choose dismissed an eleventh rely.
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