Porn star Ron Jeremy was arraigned on 20 new charges of sexual assault on Monday in a Los Angeles court, involving 13 women and girls ranging in age from 15 to 54 and dating back to 2004, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, pleaded not guilty to the charges, NBC Los Angeles reported. He pleaded not guilty to eight other sexual assault charges on June 26 and has been in jail on a $6.6. million bail ever since.
The new charges include six counts of sexual battery by restraint, five counts of forcible rape, three counts of forcible oral copulation, two count of forcible penetration by a foreign object. and one count each of sodomy, assault with intent to commit rape, penetration by a foreign object on an unconscious or sleeping victim, and lewd conduct with a 15-year-old girl.
Jeremy, 67, was initially 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. Before his arrest in late June, Jeremy tweeted that he was innocent of the charges.
I am innocent of all charges. I can’t wait to prove my innocence in court! Thank you to everyone for all the support.
— Ron Jeremy (@RealRonJeremy) June 23, 2020
The DA’s office said the most recent incident occurred on January 1, when Jeremy allegedly assaulted a 21-year-old woman outside a Hollywood business. Six other alleged assaults took place inside a West Hollywood bar and a seventh in the bar’s parking lot. Jeremy faces a maximum of more than 250 years to life in prison if convicted as charged. He’ll also have to register as a sex offender.
Jeremy allegedly assaulted the 15-year-old girl at a party in Santa Clarita in June 2004, the office said.
The June charges included the forcible rape of a 25-year-old woman in May 2014, sexual assaults against a 33-year-old woman and a 46-year-old woman in separate incidents at a West Hollywood bar in 2007, and the rape of a 30-year-old woman at the same bar in July 2019.
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[Featured image: Ron Jeremy at his arraignment on June 26, 2020. (David McNew/Pool Photo via AP, File)]