Legendary porn star Ron Jeremy (pictured), 64, is being accused of sexual harassment and rape by multiple women
Multiple women have come forward to accuse legendary male porn star Ron Jeremy of sexual misconduct spanning over a 30 year period.
Allegations made by at least five different women include sexual harassment and rape.
The accusations against the 64-year-old first gained traction after adult film star Ginger Banks began detailing Jeremy’s alleged improprieties with multiple different women, including herself, in the adult film industry, releasing a video in June 2017.
Jeremy vehemently denies the allegations, saying that he’s been paid to go to public events to interact with fans for decades without complaint.
‘For over 40 years fans and fellow performers pay money and wait in long lines to meet me,’ he told Rolling Stone in a statement.
‘They want autographs, pictures, to flirt with me, physically grab me in different areas (usually my clothed penis), they ask me to touch them and many ask to have me sign their boobs.’
Allegations started to come out when adult film star Ginger Banks (pictured) began detailing his alleged impropriety on film
‘When I take photos with fans and other performers at these conventions, signings or events, I do sometimes kiss people on the lips or the cheek, sign boobs or whatever they want. There is ‘put on’ flirting and touching for the photos.’
‘This is exactly what people pay me for at conventions … If you watch these videos that Ginger Banks put out of me ‘groping,’ you see that everyone in the videos is laughing and ‘groping’ too. That I’m not running up to them, they come to me.’
The allegations, however, extend beyond groping. Former adult film star Jennifer Steele alleges that in 1997, Jeremy sexually assaulted her twice.
Steele claims that Jeremy penetrated her without consent during a photo shoot in which she was asked to simulate sex.
‘It turned into him basically sticking it in without me knowing it was happening,’ Steele alleged. ‘I said flat-out no … He doesn’t hear no. He just kinda keeps going and pretends like you didn’t say anything.’
Adult film actresses Julia Ann and Jay Taylor said that they were both touched inappropriately by Jeremy
‘During the whole photo shoot I was thinking, ‘Was I just raped? What the f**k just happened?” Steele recalled.
‘[But] by the time the shoot was done, I had it in my head that I had somehow exaggerated it and it was an honest mistake.’
Steele claims that she was assaulted again when they returned to his apartment.
‘This was after so many times of saying no and realizing that wasn’t gonna work,’ Steele claims.
Danica Dane (pictured) said Jeremy sexually assaulted in 2014 during an expo
Jeremy denies Steele’s allegations, telling Rolling Stone: ‘Why would she decide to go to her rapist’s home? Give me a f—king break. It is just not true.’
Another incident occurred in 2014, when adult star Danica Dane accused Jeremy of sexual assault during an expo. Three friends of Dane were informed of the incident soon after, and corroborated her story to the magazine.
Jay Taylor, another adult film actress, said that Jeremy digitally violated her during a 2013 expo, while another porn starlet Julia Ann accused Jeremy of forcefully trying to give her a leg massage without her consent in 2011 in Jamaica.
Many of the women said that they feared coming forward with the allegations, concerned over reprisal in the industry or that they’re claims would not be taken seriously by police because of their involvement in adult entertainment.
Two incidents, however, involving fans have been reported to police.
A woman in Ann Arbor, Michigan accused Jeremy of raping her in 1997 after her appearance at a strip club.
Jeremy adamantly denies any and all allegations of sexual assault in a statement to Rolling Stone
Jeremy told Rolling Stone, however, that he was a ‘groper,’ clarifying he gets paid to show up to these shows and events ‘and touch people and they touch me’
Another woman accused Jeremy of groping and signing her breast with out consent at an adult entertainment convention in 2007.
Several other women have also accused Jeremy of inappropriate sexual contact such as groping without consent at an adult entertainment convention or expo.
‘As for the charges of Groping, I say yes, I AM A GROPER,’ he wrote in an email to Rolling Stone.
‘And by groper, I mean I get paid to show up to these shows, events, and photo shoots and touch the people and they touch me. I’m not the young stud I was, but I still draw a crowd.’
Jeremy adamantly denies any and all allegations of sexual assault in a statement to Rolling Stone.
‘I have never and would never rape anyone. All serious allegations have been investigated by police and dismissed by judges, as have most of the accusations of ‘groping,” he wrote.
‘I have never been charged nor spent one day in court for any of this. And these are old allegations. Check, anything about me appearing in court or in jail, is public record … The police who looked into the groping charges have always said that they watch the video from the event or whatever and that I did nothing wrong or illegal. They then ask if I want to press charges against the people making false accusations. I never have.’
‘But seriously, if you were going to be around Ron Jeremy, wouldn’t you assume that I’d be a little bit touchy feely? Yes. This is what I do for a living. I am not Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Weinstein, or Cosby … If anyone was ever made to feel uncomfortable by ANY of our interactions, I’m deeply sorry. That was never my intention and it breaks my heart in half … I have never raped anyone. If anyone continues those claims, that is defamation. I will sue them in court.’