New charges have been filed against Ron Jeremy.
The L.A. County DA's office says they are charging the adult film star
with another 20 sexual assault counts.
Ron Jeremy was the biggest porn star in the world.
He always made it a point to walk through the crowd.
People loved Ron Jeremy!
I think Ron was a sex addict at the top of the scale.
People don't want to hear bad stories about their heroes.
They don't want to hear that that person's a predator.
I think there's hundreds of victims out there.
There isn't a day that I don't think about it.
It's time to go to court...
and get Ron Jeremy charged
with how he raped me 20 years ago.
When bad things happen, people definitely come to me.
Our industry attracts plenty of vulnerable people,
so I feel like it's a big part of my job to protect them,
because I'm the president of the performer union.
As time passed, really, there were a lot fewer women
that were willing to perform in a scene with Ron.
People weren't hiring him any more.
But we can't stop the people in the real world
from being obsessed with him.
And so, at that point, Ron's career took off in other ways.
Ron Jeremy is ubiquitous.
I had my doctor be like,
"You know who lives down the street from me?
"Ron Jeremy! Isn't that wild?"
I'm, like, sitting there in, you know, the little gown,
the hospital gown, like...
My name is Siouxsie Q,
and I am a writer, performer, advocate, consultant.
All of the above.
I was aware of Ron Jeremy the first time I saw
the sublime "Date Rape" video.
Ron played the incarcerated person — Ironically...
That raped the date rapist.
We were teenagers, but Ron Jeremy had made it into the mainstream
visibility, so much so that these middle schoolers in California
knew who he was at that point.
Porn really fell apart for most people in porn, around 2011-12.
It was no longer the free money it was in the 2000s.
Now you had the shift — the power had turned over to the Internet,
and then, people thought,
"OK, nobody wants to pay for porn any more."
Ron Jeremy I don't think, was affected by that happening,
because Ron Jeremy was now the face of a bottle of rum.
Ron Jeremy shirts, clothes, cigars.
His own dildo — he made more money off his dildo
than probably anything.
Reality TV shows became really big for Ron.
And it also gave him this new-found fame, in that way.
My personal favourite was The Surreal Life.
Who's that man, boss?
He's so hairy.
Ron was able to cross over into
so many different mainstream projects like this.
Here's Ron Jeremy on mainstream cable TV.
It was just crazy because, in our minds,
we're not that kind of celebrity.
If I, by any chance, get excited, you'll be well aware of it.
OK, you're not getting excited on me.
Oh!
Ron was making friends with famous musicians,
famous TV and movie stars.
So, Ron saw this elite life.
Ron Jeremy always made it a point
to walk through the crowd.
He loved getting recognised.
And sure as shit — Whoever this guy was,
Tom Jones stood up and said,
"Ron Jeremy, it's an honour to meet you."
People fucking loved Ron Jeremy!
My name is Craig Gross.
For 20 years, I was called the Porn Pastor.
I started a ministry called XXX Church.
I helped people that were struggling with porn,
and I helped people that wanted to leave the sex industry.
But the best part about being the Porn Pastor was one
of my best friends is Ron Jeremy.
I wanted to be Ron's friend from the moment I met him.
And, yeah, it was like, "I'm going to debate Ron Jeremy."
I just said it out loud.
He has a problem with my business.
And for every point he comes out against me, I'll slam dunk
each and every one of them.
Ron's 5'6", and he wears crocs...
So he's not slam-dunking anything.
Pastor 10, porn star 0. But I'll catch up.
Ron and I spent ten years on the road doing what we called
The Porn Debate, Master Debaters.
I mean, we have all the jokes, we have all the things.
We've been from Australia to Canada, to,
God, I mean, everywhere.
I'm here because I love Ron Jeremy.
I think, you know, far beyond being a porn star, he's a cultural icon,
and it's been a dream of mine to see the man speak.
And I'm all for him tonight, I'm going for what he has to say.
How loved that that guy was across the world.
I love Ron Jeremy!
Ron Jeremy is awesome!
There's women everywhere.
One question. Yes?
Can... I want to see it.
I mean, I'm at dinner with him, and the waitress is flirting.
And Ron says, "You want to see it?"
And she says, "Yeah."
And so, in between getting our food,
they're behind the dumpster.
And he comes back, and now, she's delivering our food.
He's had sex with 6,000 women.
Like, it's a challenge and a conquest for women, not for Ron.
I've wrestled Ron in a wrestling ring.
Didn't the Lord say, "Turn the other cheek"?
I've been at Easter service at church with him.
Ron was a teddy bear, a sweet guy.
He cared about you.
I've let him around my kids from a young age.
I was on a tour bus with him when my kids were three and five.
We called him "Uncle Ron".
Ron's not a rapist.
I drove Ron a lot.
I was Ron's personal assistant. That's what I did.
I was his driver and his secretary, and his organiser, everything else.
But I really was his personal assistant.
My name is Moss Krivin, and since, for the last two decades,
I've been Ron's closest friend.
No—one's spent more time with Ron than me.
Bar none, by a factor of ten.
We were just hanging out 5-6 nights a week.
I was single. He's always been single.
So, to go out and, kind of, chase women, go out for, you know,
a night on the town.
When you spent as much time as I did, you were often in places
you could not buy your way into.
He was out all night, every night.
The next party, the next party.
Ron set up his whole life so he never had to answer anyone.
He lived by himself.
No girlfriend, no wife, nothing.
He could come and go.
There was no-one to tell him,
"You're not going to stay out all night."
He was too cheap to pay for dates.
He didn't want to take the time to go out on a date.
Ron needed everything right now.
So, if you want sex, you're incredibly impatient
and you're too cheap to pay for dates, what can you do?
You're so cute, cos you're like this.
He had to use his fame to meet women.
And, you know, the way he did it caused a lot of problems.
It didn't have to, but that's just the way it is.
Ron did what Ron did.
He went out looking for women, and we slept all day out at night.
I mean, I've only told you this 1,000 times for 29 years!
It's just unbelievable to me that you can't understand this concept!
Ron drove me absolutely crazy.
I would scream at him.
I didn't care.
Why do you like to scream like...? Because you're a fucking idiot!
I tell you, and you're like, "What?" Like you're two years old!
Because there'll be no-one to talk to when you
fucking get around to it!
I am more than certainly the only guy that ever shared
a hotel room with Ron.
It was always an adventure, for lack of a better word.
His feet were filthy, he'd get into bed filthy.
One time, there was a Jacuzzi in the room.
He was trying to urinate into the jacuzzi.
He missed — I later found out when I was checking out,
it went all over my personal toiletries.
I threw everything out.
I figured out later cos it stunk.
A lot of the stuff he did was abhorrent.
But you realise after spending years with him,
he's not going to change.
Ron didn't care about urinating on all of my stuff.
He never thought of any consequences for anything that he did.
It caused every problem in his life just from that.
And I'm like, "Ron, don't turn into the stereotype
"of the dirty old man" — which is, of course, exactly what he was.
The times I did hire Ron,
the girls demanded that Ron showered immediately before the scene.
It was, "That guy's fucking gross.
"If you want me to fuck him, he needs to wash his ass and balls.
"And then, we're good."
"And you need to pay me 200 bucks."
When you look at Ron from the last 10-15 years,
you see such a change in Ron.
Ron visibly stopped taking care of himself.
He's not showering.
He started to smell.
Ryan absolutely became a cartoon version of a pervert.
The creepy old man, hunched forward.
Yet he was still coming to every event and every party.
And he's becoming more of this decrepit old man.
When I first met him in 2014,
he looked much older and
more grizzled than he did in the music video I had seen him in.
There was this award show,
and I was doing my podcast at the time.
And that's when I saw Ron.
I went up to him and I gave my little spiel.
I was like, "Hello, I'm Siouxsie Q.
"I host a podcast called The Whorecast,
"and I would love to interview you. May I?"
He said, "Yes, I would love to.
"Let's do it right now."
"Let's go back here into this stairwell. It'll be quieter."
"Of course," right, is what I'm thinking.
Like... smart idea.
Of course. It's way too loud out here.
So once we were in the stairwell, he was in my physical space.
He was coming for my mouth with his mouth.
As reaching up under my skirt with his, like, disgusting,
long, gross, fingernails, like, just such an unkempt...
As soon as I got close enough, I could smell him.
And he smelled bad.
It was aggressive, it was forceful, it was fast.
It didn't even occur to me to scream.
Ron Jeremy is trying to digitally penetrate me,
with his disgusting fingernails.
The only thought in my head was,
"No, we gotta get out of here safely."
And I was able to get away.
I remember going to the bathroom,
and I remember my underwear was bloody.
I realised, "Oh, this blood must be from when Ron tried
"to shove his hands inside me."
Gross.
A girl from San Francisco comes to LA.
It's her first time in the adult entertainment industry and, like,
this is the welcome she gets.
This old, predatory man gets her alone in a stairwell,
grabs her genitals and makes her bleed.
I definitely thought that, if I spoke up and said,
"Ron Jeremy did this to me,"
I would be ridiculed, I would be ostracised.
I know that after he hurt me, he hurt a lot more people.
I think I still blame myself.
Yeah.
And that's just, like,
that's part of the psychology of survival, I think.
Because if I can blame myself, then I can control it.
Then I can have some, like...
Just, like, concept that what happened was controllable by me,
even though it wasn't.
\ So... yeah. I
I think Ron does whatever he wants when he wants,
because women like me, for so long, wouldn't react,
or we would just take it.
I felt at the time that Ron had assaulted me,
I didn't see it as a crime.
Because I'd been conditioned to think that this is OK.
I was raped by Ron and abused by many.
There was nobody that I could turn to.
And anybody that I tried to talk to about it were like,
"Ron does that to so many people.
"He's got away with it for so many years."
It's just another victim — Happens to everybody.
Well, it's my own fault for being a porn star.
It's not easy to come out if you've been raped.
It's hard to talk about it, especially for women in porn.
And I think that a lot of the women were probably exactly like me.
They were scared.
They didn't know who to tell.
They didn't know who would care.
I'll never forget when Ginger told me about what
Ron did to her in the '80s.
And there have been victims the entire time since then.
In our industry, when someone like Ron is your abuser,
he's everywhere you turn.
So, it was very ironic how Ron's still the megastar.
Everyone wants him.
Ron Jeremy! Surprise for you.
Yes! Brother!
Can I give you a hug? I know who you are!
So, when Ron was doing the Big Brother in Norway,
there's footage of him doing a signing,
and signing women's breasts.
So, "RJ," and then, a heart.
See? See what you missed?
See what you missed?
Actually, it does come off.
- What do we want? - Justice!
When do we want it? Now! What do we want...?
Harvey, you and others like you are done.
- What do we want? - Justice!
People kept wondering,
when's porn going to have its MeToo movement?
Finally in 2017, a big expose came out,
mostly webcam models talking about being touched and being groped.
It was young ladies that aren't accustomed to Ron.
Here we have Ron Jeremy grabbing ass.
Here we have Ron Jeremy fondling the tit of a random female
out in front of a strip club.
Many different women started coming forward with similar allegations
against Ron Jeremy.
How is that OK?
It's definitely a new generation of performers that are taking Ron on.
And so, the heat was turned up.
My name is James Queally.
I'm the criminal court reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
So, at this point in 2017, there is a pretty lengthy list
of women that have come out against him.
Some of the allegations against Ron Jeremy in this case
date back to, I believe, as early as the early '80s.
But it doesn't really explode into the public consciousness until 2017.
There start to be media reports.
People start to come out and accuse him of rape,
accuse him of groping.
And Jeremy was again, kind of, like, a kingpin figure there.
It scared a lot of people into silence for a lot of years.
Ron called me the first time that they had came
and started questioning him.
He just thought it was some hogwash.
You know, because he said, "Kianna, these stories, like,
"what the hell is going on?
"This just is absurd. It makes no sense to me."
There were a few different attempts at prosecuting Ron for these cases,
but they were all in different states.
They were looking into legal cases against him,
but no-one had anything that could stick.
So, it looked like he was allowed to get away with it.
Ron Jeremy dismissed them as old accusations.
And then, when he was interviewed,
he just flatly denied that he'd done anything wrong.
How do you respond to all the charges
against the woman suing you?
Look, I could sue that guy for wearing brown pants.
In this country, you can sue for anything, you know?
It was dropped by the DA.
Yeah. That says it all right there.
And then, what do you do?
You could sue for a bad fashion statement. Yeah.
"Those pants don't match that shirt," you know?
But that's how it is.
But the DA knocked it down, so it doesn't exist anymore.
In America, anybody can sue for anything.
That's the greatness of America — And also, the confusion of America.
He obviously knew these things had been floating for a long time.
I believe this is the first time that you almost started to see the,
kind of, the arrogance he has taken towards some of this.
I very firmly believe he doesn't understand why
he's being persecuted.
Ron is getting old.
He's frail and mentally incompetent.
He's fragile.
More so the past 4-5 years.
How many porn movies have you been in the past year?
I have the world's record.
I know that, in a period of 3-4 years,
it's been about 800, 900, er, films.
All right.
I think him being the butt of everyone's jokes...
"Let's laugh at him," you know, he's so used to it.
But people don't also understand that his health
was fading very badly.
We had a little bite to eat.
"Why don't you guys come here, say hello?"
It is believable that he might have narcolepsy.
It's not normal to be falling asleep like that, just in mid-conversation.
But he's just the butt of the joke.
I see the signs of dementia.
Jeremy, right? j-E-R-E-M-Y?
You got it.
I could call him today.
"Hey, Ron, do you want to come over?"
"Well, who is this?" "It's Kianna."
"Kianna who?"
"Kianna Bradley, Ron, I was a contractor with..."
Call him the next day, do the same thing.
He won't remember who I am until I explain it to him.
Ron was totally senile.
- "The." The? T—H—E. I.
As Ron's health, his cleanliness, his mental state deteriorated,
his behaviour got worse.
Ron definitely got worse with his offending over time.
I may have shot Ron Jeremy's last-ever sex scene.
A few years ago, it was around 2018.
He'd just had surgery, but then, he had like a herniated belly button
sticking out, and everything.
He got so old, he could play a lot of these old-man roles.
And he pulled off the scene.
I mean, it wasn't great.
What do you think of that?
Skin me wet, grandpa.
Well, if that's what it takes,
I'm going to keep playing harmonica for life.
I had no idea who Ron Jeremy was.
I had no clue.
I wasn't into that.
But I'm not a judgmental kind of woman.
So meeting him, I was like, "Oh, hey, you know, who are you?
"I don't know anything about you."
And we just hit it off.
I am Charity Carson-Hawke,
and I work in the real estate industry.
I am a Ten Commandment girl — And I believe in the Lord,
and I pray every night.
My father was a Baptist preacher,
and he could read you the Bible backwards.
Ron is a very smart man, and I was such a school nerd,
so we had a lot to talk about.
I do believe he liked that I was not in that industry.
I was a different kind of girl, you know,
being brought up in the church.
We would be eating dinner, and he's like, "I gotta go.
"I gotta go sign boobs."
I'm like, "Go do your thing."
He met my family, he met my children.
So, he became a family friend — He met my mum.
So, it was, yeah, it was a different kind of relationship,
but it worked.
We were friends for 26 years,
so there's a lot of memories involved.
There was no chemistry of any kind of romantic at all.
That would never happen.
I was not his cup of tea, and he was not mine.
That's why I trusted him.
I trusted Ron 110%.
So, that's why, no matter what situation we were in,
I knew Ron would never crossed that line — and he never did.
But the last time I met with him...
he, like, he was not the same.
He was not the same Ron Jeremy I knew.
He was a zombie.
He could barely talk.
Listen, girls, please drink. Girls, please.
Cos the more you drink, the more — the better I look.
Here is... OK.
A lot of the times, he wouldn't be super coherent,
but still creepy Ron.
July 27th.
We're in Ron Jeremy's condo.
This is not a storage facility.
This is Ron's house.
I think Ron's tendency to hoard things was very indicative
of someone in a state of mental decline.
Ron's condo was a disaster. It was a disaster.
This is Ron's living room.
It was literally unliveable.
And it just got worse and worse over the years.
And then, for the last several months, when he was free,
he wasn't even living in his condo.
He moved across the street to the motel where Janis Joplin died.
He was also paying other women to live there,
just to have people around him.
Like a shark has to keep swimming,
Ron had to have people around him constantly.
The last time I met with Ron was in May of 2020.
He was in a West Hollywood hotel.
It was kind of weird to me.
I said, "Ron, why are you at this hotel? You live across the street."
"Oh, my house is so messy. It's OK. Anyways, come meet everybody."
And I was like, "OK."
So, me and Ron are catching up like old times, like we always did.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
And Ron was walking around in the room, and he said,
"Hey, Charity, follow me. I want to show you something."
So, that's when I followed him.
And I wind up being in a bathroom.
Soon as he opened the door...
I followed him, and he slammed the door.
And that's when I saw the devil in disguise,
because he got very violent with me.
He pushed me up against the wall.
He was going towards my breasts, and I'm fighting him
and I'm screaming at him, and he was getting very aggressive
with me in that bathroom.
And that's when I got really scared,
because I'd never been locked in a bathroom with Ron.
It just got so volatile in that bathroom,
and I wasn't having that, so I fought him.
And, while he's still trying to unravel my clothes and grabbing
my hands, trying to put it on his penis, like, he was trying with
all his might to rape me in that bathroom.
I'm screaming at him, and he's still...
His mind was to rape me.
My mind was to get away from him and get out that bathroom door.
And I got loose.
And I'm one of the lucky ones that broke free from him.
I just stood there in the hallway at this hotel room,
and a shock, like, my whole world just stood still.
It's hard to explain that feeling when you're almost being raped
in the bathroom from a friend of yours for 26 years.
And then, you're in the hallway, and you're like,
"Did that just happen?"
And I remember this day like it was yesterday.
And I think I always will.
Erm...
When he did that to me that night,
it was a betrayal on his side.
And that's the hard part, because I was such good friends with him
for all those years, and I never knew nothing about that.
I'd love to show you all my dick, but it won't be here on stage.
My dick is out parking the car.
They're actually using my dick for, er...
for speedbumps, so the cars won't speed, you know?
As things got on with him, he got worse.
Ron started being accused of things that weren't happening before.
It didn't seem like anything really mattered any more.
And it was just so one-track mind with him.
On that note...
that's the end of the show.
I couldn't wait to get out of there.
So I get in my car.
That's when I drive back crying, freaked out, shaken up.
Now I'm in that emotion where I'm pissed.
I cannot let him get away with what he just did.
So, that's when I reached out to the LA District Attorney.
I made my report, and it makes me sick to my stomach
that he's been doing this for all these years,
and I never knew anything about it.
Takes years and years for a criminal case to be built.
I don't believe the delay was a matter of
police not investigating.
It was a matter of police getting enough women to come forward.
Finally, they had four different women and were able to use that
as the basis of an investigation.
More breaking news this hour...
Legendary porn star Ron Jeremy has been charged with
sexually assaulting four women.
The now 67-year-old, whose legal name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt,
is charged with forcibly raping three women and
sexually assaulting another.
He's pleading not guilty.
We'll bring you the latest as it happens.
So, when we were in court that day,
Jeremy more or less looked like he was in space.
He was a little glassy-eyed.
You have the right to a speedy arraignment.
Initially, his bail was set at $6.6 million.
Your attorney is requesting that your arraignment...
He's absolutely innocent of the charges.
It's not a close call.
Everyone knows Ron Jeremy is.
He's been with over 4,000 women.
The initial part of his argument was when Jeremy meets women in bars,
or women meet Jeremy in bars, they expect or almost want,
to be groped, to be grabbed.
It's Ron Jeremy. He's going to do these things.
And I'm not really sure how that'll go in court.
When I heard Ron got arrested.
I was like, "Fuck," like, "Fuck!"
When the MeToo movement came out is when...
All you had to say was, "Me, too".
And it didn't matter if your story made sense.
It was, "Me, too".
This case makes no sense because it's political,
because the DA needs to throw the book at somebody like Ron Jeremy.
I've interviewed people who describe being
violently attacked by Ron.
I've never met those women.
Whether Ron did the most horrific things or the most loving things,
like, it's light and dark, like, it's yin and yang, like...
But can you separate...? Let me fucking finish talking.
Like, my love is not contingent on what he did or didn't do.
Ron has a lot of people that are on his side.
I have had a lot of hate mail from Ron's fans.
There's, like, they'll say, "You knew he was a porn star.
"Why are you hanging out with him?"
"You went to strip clubs with Ron. What do you expect?"
You know, I get a lot of hate mail, but you know what?
I don't care.
It doesn't bother me any more.
But it's sad.
Hopefully these people will wake up and realise
they're behind a serial rapist.
When he was arrested, dozens and dozens of women
came forward to the LA County Sheriff's Department.
The floodgates, for lack of a better term, do open.
Frankly, for a lot of these women, it probably wasn't safe to come
forward until he was put in custody.
Lianne Young didn't choose to come forward until July or
August of 2020, I believe.
Ron has taken from me two decades of my life.
Two decades ago, I was untouched cracked Hollywood, you know?
I mean, I'd done everything I'd set out my dreams to do.
And it was taken away from me in five seconds.
I was raped.
I have to relive it every single day.
You know, I got diagnosed with PTSD after it.
But for me, the most devastating part of it is many people
hid the fact they knew who he was — And what he was.
Breaking news this hour...
Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been hit with yet
more assault charges.
He faces 300 years in prison.
This case has ballooned from the initial day
the complaint was filed.
Jeremy is facing 34 counts of various forms of sexual assault
levied by 23 different women.
The accusations spanned the better part of two decades.
It's more charges than Harvey Weinstein faced.
Jeremy is put right up there against Weinstein, Bill Cosby,
as this celebrity sexual predator.
For the last year, I've been going through this whole terminal
of what I'm going to face in court,
because it's going to court on a forcible rape charge.
He is going to use the defense,
"Oh, well, you know, girls chuck themselves at me."
I never chucked myself at him.
I never asked for his autograph.
I never let him touch me.
Good morning.
Today, I give evidence for the first time against Ron Jeremy.
Since I've been in LA, I have not slept at all.
I'm a nervous wreck, and I'm exhausted.
But it's time to go to court...
and get Ron Jeremy charged
with how he raped me 20 years ago.
So, you won't believe this is 7.00 in the morning.
Hey, we should have parking for today?
I don't know how I'm going to be in court.
That cringe that sits in the bottom of my stomach,
it's almost like a phobia.
And I've gotta face that phobia, whether I like it or not.
I want it over with, because then I can move on.
I was a witness in the grand jury
to give truth and story to what happened to Lianne
when she was raped.
Because I was there that night.
Having the appearance that day at the grand jury made it so real.
It made it so clear about how serious the charges were.
"Forcible oral copulation."
"Sexual penetration by a foreign object."
"Sodomy by use of force."
"Forcible rape."
I've just got back to my hotel room, from the courthouse.
I walked out of the courtroom, and I absolutely broke down.
I didn't realise how tough this was going to be.
And this is only the first stage.
I don't think most people understood the level of predatory behaviour
that he was engaging in.
It's so violent, and it's so horrific.
The allegations against Jeremy do get more violent over time.
The way it's describing the court documents would paint Jeremy as
getting older, getting more physically diminished,
and growing more aggressive.
The allegations that predate at least 2010,
they're more in public.
Whereas when you get into the 2010s,
he's been accused of forcing himself on isolated women in bathrooms,
and is definitely more predatory.
Ron's hunting ground was the Sunset Strip, was the row of bars
in West Hollywood.
There's incidents you see where the victim is isolated,
where the victim is inebriated,
where the victim is lured somewhere.
There's one case where a woman and Jeremy meet...
He hands her a drink, and she immediately becomes,
by her own description, violently ill.
He offers to take her back to his apartment, basically for help.
She goes back to his apartment,
continues to be sick, continues to vomit.
In between puking,
she alleges that he tried to slide his fingers into her vagina.
She's saying no — But again, she's, you know,
she's been vomiting profusely.
She is in a very weakened state and can't fight back.
20 years ago, Ron wasn't being accused of drugging women...
Where now, he is.
So, you can easily see that the allegations changed,
and clearly so did the behaviour.
I feel like I have to believe
that people knew that he was as violent as he was,
because there are so many accounts of it.
Ron Jeremy was always considered a star in our business because
he was genuinely liked by people.
And can asshole over here get it up?
Asshole?!
You better believe I can get it up.
Like a fucking volcano, I can!
Well, why don't you show me?
I won't tell!
When I see Ron, and he plays, like, a Deliverance, kind of, character
in the woods, he was like a joke.
He was, like, the funny goofball.
That's who he was.
I feel the hole of Mother Earth swelling inside of me!
I think I'm gon' cum!
I gon' cum!
Ah! I just came.
I personally loved having him on sets.
Ron represented a good time in my life.
But when it all came out, I wasn't shocked.
There was a sadness for this innocent time that I knew Ron.
Sadness for the victims.
And I remember one night, I cried.
And it wasn't just for the loss of my friendship,
because I knew I'd probably never see him again.
I wasn't going to go down there.
"Oh, hi, Ron, I'm so sad."
I think you did it, fuckface.
There's no way that these girls came together and wanted to get you.
I think you did it, you sick motherfucker.
There have been a number of pretty graphic descriptions
of sexual assault, as you might imagine, in this case.
One of the most alarming allegations was that Jeremy
molested a minor at a rave.
There was a 15-year-old girl there.
She was extremely inebriated.
He led her somewhere, and is accused
of picking her up by the waist
and digitally penetrating her at that point.
The event was a rave.
It was called Almost Better Than Sex.
I went to the event. I drove Ron.
It was just the two of us in the car.
And it was fun, it was a fun event.
Just rave music — Whatever that was back then.
I was never a big raver.
Ron was paid to be there, and he was the emcee.
And they had a dance contest, and the winner got a nice cash prize.
The witness, Jane Doe 5,
says she was 15 years old at the time of the attack.
Jeremy's assistant offered her his vodka cranberry cocktail.
So, that would have you. That's absolutely me.
I'm the only one who's ever been Ron's assistant.
At that rave, I certainly didn't give anyone alcohol.
And then, she says that Ron inserted a finger into her vagina.
I, you know, whenever I went out with Ron,
I was never around him 100% of the time.
Does it worry you, though,
that people might think that you saw stuff?
If you were with him 5-6 nights a week, surely you must know
where the bodies are buried.
No, I don't lose any sleep over my relationship with Ron.
If I was culpable in any way, I'd have been arrested, too.
I'm not — and I never will be, because I had nothing to do with
the highly inappropriate things that he's accused of.
I mean, I'm so conflicted, because Ron was so close to me...
And still is.
But I have a lot of compassion
and understanding for the women that have accused Ron.
The man that I have been friends with this whole time
has been an absolute monster in disguise.
You wouldn't think that this is the kind of stuff
that he's really doing when no—one's looking...
But he's doing it when we are looking,
and everyone's just looking the other way.
I think Ron was a sex addict at the top of the scale.
It's a guy who's lost complete perception of morality and reality.
I mean, literally a guy like that could assault 3-4 women in a night.
He had a lot of women that were thrown at him.
So, imagine those women at his feet, at his mercy.
I think there's hundreds...
of victims out there.
People don't want to hear bad stories about their heroes.
People don't want to think that a man that they've watched
have sex with thousands of women,
and they pleasured themselves to it...
They don't want to hear that that person's a predator.
My friend, 100%, became a predator.
Right in front of me!
Right in front of my eyes.
Ron had the ability to persuade people,
to fool people, to think he was a nice guy.
So, for me, I need closure.
Ron is in prison right now, and I hope he stays there
till the day he dies.
Ron has had free rent in my head for 20 years.
I refuse to allow him to let me be a prisoner
of his actions any longer.
He needs to pay for what he did to these women,
and for what he did to me.
I'm going to pray for him for the rest of his life,
and hopefully, he asks for forgiveness.
I'll pray for him.
But that's all I want for him. That's all I'll do for Ron.