Ron Jeremy charged with 20 new counts of rape or sexual assault

LOS ANGELES — Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with 20 new sexual assault counts involving 12 women and a teenage girl, authorities said Monday.

The charges come two months after Jeremy, 67, was charged with the rape of three women and the sexual assault of a fourth.

The original complaint stated that Jeremy would leverage on fame and take advantage of women when they were intoxicated, according to the Los Angeles Times. The complaint has been amended and was filed Monday with the addition of the additional counts of sexual violence in L.A. County.

Jeremy pleaded not guilty to the new charges in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday morning, and had already denied the previous allegations.

The new counts span 16 years, from 2004 to January of this year, when he is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 21-year-old girl outside a business in Hollywood, the district attorney’s office said. The charges include five counts of forcible rape and six counts of sexual battery by restraint.

They also include an allegation that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at a party in 2004.

The combined counts could bring sentences of more than 250 years in prison.

He was investigated and charged by a district attorney’s task force formed to take on sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry as the #MeToo era gained momentum in late 2017.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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