Porn star Ron Jeremy (pictured), is reportedly being investigated on new sexual assault accusations
Porn star Ron Jeremy, also known as The Hedgehog, is reportedly being investigated on new sexual assault accusations.
‘Sexual assault allegations against Ron Jeremy are under review by our office. No filing decision has been made,’ Greg Risling of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office told The Daily Beast.
The Daily Beast did not specify what those new allegations are and neither did Risling.
It’s also unclear when Jeremy allegedly committed the acts.
Jeremy is no stranger to being accused of sexual assault. Since at least 2017, women have come forward to allege the 40-year porn veteran groped them without their consent, leading to Jeremy being banned from most of the adult industry’s high-profile events.
Jeremy, who did not achieve fame based on his good looks and earned the nickname The Hedgehog due to his hirsute, stringy hair and unkempt mustache, recently made headlines for trying to save his childhood tree in Queens, New York.
The 67-year-old tweeted a picture of himself hugging a tree on May 16 with the caption: ‘I need your help. help me save my tree.’
According Jeremy, the tree was planted by his father on the day he was born.
Jeremy, who did not achieve fame based on his good looks and earned the nickname The Hedgehog due to his hirsute, stringy hair and unkempt mustache, recently made headlines for trying to save his childhood tree in Queens, New York
The 67-year-old tweeted a picture of himself hugging a tree on May 16 with the caption: ‘I need your help. help me save my tree.’ According Jeremy, the tree was planted by his father on the day he was born
‘Please let Con Edison know that they cannot tear down this tree,’ Jeremy pleaded with his more than 109,000 followers.
In response, Con Edison tweeted: ‘Hi Ron, thanks for reaching out to us; we understand your concern. However, we are not involved with this tree’s pruning or removal job. Please reach out to NYC Parks department for more information.’
A few days later, Jeremy shared a video story of his tree, tweeting: ‘I’ve been fighting to save my tree over and over it’s whole life. Sadly it has run its course and needs to be torn down tomorrow. It is not City’s fault. The tree is old.’
And though several of his followers view Jeremy as a sort of hometown hero, the headlines about his tree angered others.
‘It’s truly horrifying for me to see men who are predators glamorized,’ porn actress, Tasha Reign told the Daily Beast.
Reign added: ‘Men who commit these crimes of assault should be punished for their actions but unfortunately, with our current legal system, it’s extremely challenging to prove sex crimes. That needs to change.’
And though several of his followers view Jeremy as a sort of hometown hero, the headlines about his tree angered others. Porn star, Janice Griffith, asked on Twitter: ‘Did Ron tweet this in between bouts of sexually harassing people?’
Porn star, Janice Griffith, asked on Twitter: ‘Did Ron tweet this in between bouts of sexually harassing people? He’s banned from almost all industry events for groping people without consent.’
In September 2017, Jeremy was accused of inappropriately touching Kristin Brodie who asked him to sign her breast at a Washington state radio station.
At the time, Brodie told the Daily Beast: ‘Our Rock Girl uniforms are just torn up T-shirts. There’s not a lot of coverage so you can see the top part of your chest. There’s no need to move the collar but that’s what he did to all three of us.
‘He pulled our shirts open and reached inside our bras, all the way to the bottom and squeezed hard almost pulling [our breasts] out of our bra, and for me it felt like he was squeezing an udder or appraising something. It was very unpleasant.
In 2017, a prominent adult film actress, who wished to remain anonymous, accused Jeremy (pictured in 2018) of putting ‘his fingers in my pu**y’
‘I was nervous… but I was a Rock Girl and knew I was being watched, so with that knowledge I tried to look unbothered and unfazed even though I was not.’
Following that incident, Jeremy was told he would not face charges over the allegations.
Police interviewed witnesses and reviewed surveillance videos but the Tacoma City Attorney’s Office decided not to press charges.
In 2017, a prominent adult film actress, who wished to remain anonymous, also accused Jeremy of sexually assaulting her.
‘The first time I met him on set he put his fingers in my pu**y unexpectedly. I was brand new, outside smoking a cigarette and he comes out just being Ron Jeremy. All of a sudden he’s fingering me, and I’m like, whoa,’ the woman told Daily Beast.
‘He was just there as an extra on set, he wasn’t even there performing. We joke about it—there’s Ron, stay five feet away from him because he does that.
‘We don’t think anything of it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t even register. It’s like, oh great, another girl got groped by Ron Jeremy, join the club.’
Sydney Leathers, who is also an adult film actress and writer, also voiced her concerns over how much praise Jeremy recently received online.
‘I’m personally happy Ron Jeremy has a tree to focus his attention on instead of groping women,’ Leathers told the news outlet.