Ron Jeremy rape case paused amid questions over porn star’s mental health
- The adult film actor’s lawyer says his client could not recognise him, refused to get in his wheelchair, and was generally ‘non-responsive’ inside his cell
- Jeremy was indicted on more than 30 criminal counts last year based on allegations made by 21 different women
A judge suspended court proceedings in the rape case against Ron Jeremy on Thursday after a lawyer raised doubts about the disgraced porn star’s mental health.
Six weeks before the start of a trial on charges that he sexually assaulted nearly two dozen women, Jeremy, 68, was unable to recognise his lawyer, refused to get into his wheelchair and was generally “non-responsive” inside of a cell at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, according to his lawyer, Stu Goldfarb.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli agreed to pause the criminal case against Jeremy and scheduled a mental health competency hearing for April.
Charges were first brought against Jeremy in 2020, when prosecutors alleged he had raped four women whom he had met in the Rainbow Room and other bars along the Sunset Strip.
In the weeks after the charges were announced, investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received at least 30 more allegations of rape and other sexual assaults against Jeremy in incidents dating back to 2000, authorities said.