2023-11-18 03:36:33
Pornographic actor Ron Jeremy, indicted in California for rape and sexual assault on 21 victims, some of whom were minors, will be released from prison and transferred to a “private residence” because he suffers from dementia, according to Los Angeles Times.
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The state of health of the septuagenarian, who appeared in more than 1,700 X-rated films during his career, “has deteriorated to the point that he is essentially bedridden,” according to an email from the Los Angeles prosecutor’s office obtained by the daily .
So a judge agreed to move him to a “private residence” where he will receive “24-hour medical care” following it was determined that “no medical facility would accept him.”
This release from prison for health reasons, which the prosecution opposed, extinguishes almost all chances that the actor will be tried for the rapes of which he is accused.
Dementia is a degenerative disease, which usually gets worse over time.
In January, the 70-year-old ex-star had already been declared mentally unfit to stand trial, following a psychiatric assessment.
Fallen star of pornographic cinema, Ron Jeremy was accused of raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth in June 2020.
His arrest and appearance in a Los Angeles court sparked a new wave of complaints once morest him, and he has been in pretrial detention ever since.
The oldest facts date back to 1996. In total, Ron Jeremy is accused of various sexual violence once morest 21 women aged 15 to 51.
The actor has always denied the accusations once morest him. On Twitter, he declared himself completely “innocent”, and he pleaded “not guilty” to the judge.
In June 2020, his lawyer Stuart Goldfarb flatly denied the accusations once morest his client, assuring that he was “not a rapist”.
“Ron, over the years and because of who he is, has been the partner of more than 4,000 women (…) Women throw themselves at him,” the council said.
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