Ron represented a good time in my life.
Yes, we were having sex on film,
but there wasn't anything tawdry about it.
But when it all came out, I wasn't shocked.
I think you did it, you sick motherfucker.
Ron Jeremy was the biggest porn star in the world.
Ron Jeremy is ubiquitous.
He made it into the mainstream.
Ron Jeremy shirts, clothes, cigars. His own dildo.
Every man I know is like, "Oh, yeah, I know Ron Jeremy.
"He's a legend." No, he's not legend.
The man's a rapist.
I never for a second thought Ron was a predator.
Pervert? Yes. Predator? No.
Jeremy is facing 34 counts of sexual assault.
He's right up there against Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby
as this celebrity sexual predator.
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.
Well, we met. I was kind of like this, with my legs spread.
And I was down about there.
Christina was down about that spot.
And she looked up and I looked down, and I said hello,
and she said hello, and then...
she ate my pussy.
I'm Ginger Lynn.
I used to be a porn star.
My name is Christy Cannon and, when I was 18,
I got into the adult business fresh out of high school.
Ginger and I were huge in the '80s.
She's the petite blonde, I'm the big-titted brunette.
Christy, myself, Ron, we were three of the biggest names.
It was the golden age of porn.
There were big budgets.
There were big scripts.
There were big actors.
It was glamorous, it was exciting.
There were parties.
There were people fucking everybody anywhere and everywhere.
We were rebels.
We were doing something that was illegal at the time,
which was part of the intrigue for me.
Ron Jeremy has always been, to me, the same character...
I remember one scene, a whole movie called WPINK-TV.
The Pink Network is on the air from station KSEX.
It's TV as you've never seen it before.
Tonight, starring Penthouse Pet Christy Canyon...
Ron Jeremy.
We played like anchors, like the news anchors.
Are you tired of nightly killings and terrorism?
Are you bored with the same old reruns?
Has TV almost gotten you to a point of turning it off?
Well, don't pull that plug, because we're going to turn you on.
He just had me laughing all the time.
He was just almost like a cartoon character.
He didn't seem real.
Ladies and Germs, it is time for my favourite game show,
Beat The Cock.
And he'd stand up and he'd make his cock go around and, like,
he'd kind of move his hips and the cock would go in circles.
Want to see alternate viewing?
And then he'd say, "Now we're going to go counterclockwise."
That's counterclockwise alternate viewing.
Everyone that knew anything about in the adult business
knew Ron Jeremy.
He was notorious.
Ron started in the adult business in about 1979.
I might have seen him in some of the Pussy Cat theatres I was in,
but the adult business really took off when VHS came around
because people could watch adult movies in the comfort
of their home.
He is the average Joe.
He's the guy that's sitting at home that can't get the Christy Canyon
or the Ginger Lynn.
But you see Ron Jeremy fucking them and, and it gave men confidence.
On top of being on the right place at the right time,
he had a very large penis.
Nine and three quarters.
Everyone wanted to see nine and three quarters.
There was a scene that I'm thinking of, and this guy couldn't get
it up, and they're like, "Go to the go to the buffet table,
"get Ron, have him fill in for the pop shots."
So there's Ron fucking me and, like, eating a hot dog
cos his face was out of frame, if that makes sense.
They only needed a cock shot,
so he's like double-fisting the food
and, like, just kind of, like, pumping away.
My name is Jim Powers. I direct adult movies.
I met Ron Jeremy in 1992.
I was Ron Jeremy's cameraman.
I would shoot Ronnie typically on a weekly basis, I'd be with him.
For years.
Ron Jeremy had something to do with some of the most famous
porn movies ever made.
We did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a parody.
They accidentally pick up a hitchhiker
who worked at the old dildo factory.
My whole family's in dildos.
A whole family of perverts.
They get caught in this insane dildo madness.
Pussy Face, Pussy Face, give me that dildo.
Pussy Face. You used to be Pussy Face.
It was an absolutely ridiculous movie.
It was so over the top.
He was a good actor,
but I shoot porn, so I think our standards
are a little bit lower.
So don't listen to me.
There was never any drama that I heard on a set.
I never saw anybody really fighting with Ron Jeremy over anything.
I never saw him be aggressive.
Ron Jeremy is a very decent person.
He's very kind.
Nicest guy you'd ever meet.
The Ron Jeremy I knew was never a rapist.
Ron represented an innocence in my life.
Yes, we were having sex on film.
There wasn't anything tawdry about it
and I was lucky enough that he never overstepped his bounds with me.
He would always try and fuck girls,
but I never knew him in the '80s
or the '90s to force himself on someone.
Was he pushy? Absolutely.
He was definitely a pushy guy.
But I think Ron did become a caricature of who he was
in the '70s and '80s and '90s.
Maybe just decades of people adoring him and worshipping him,
maybe it gave him a sense of this entitlement
and this godlike complex.
Something in him snapped. I don't know what.
Something snapped in that man, though.
Perfect. Perfect?
It's all I need.
My name is LB Zimmerman, and I am an actress and a comedy writer.
Ron Hyatt, who is now known as Ron Jeremy,
and I met in high school in 1967.
We grew up in Bayside, Queens, New York.
We were good friends.
He came over to my house quite often,
and my parents really liked him
because he was this really cute, funny kid.
A nice kid.
He's hilarious.
Oh, my God.
The funniest kid I've ever known, you know, because he was always
getting into some kind of mischief.
We came from these nice Jewish homes where we waited
until we got married.
You know, that's what it was like back then.
He was innocent, a very innocent kid.
We were very good friends, but that's where it ended.
There was no attraction other than that.
I know he had girlfriends back then,
and I never wanted to really hear about that.
I had three girlfriends that I still love to this very day.
I, if things weren't going well, I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep,
couldn't think, totally distracted,
that's when I realised that sex is simple.
Love — that's painful.
I knew girls liked him back then.
Did you know Ron posed for Playgirl?
Oh, my God, you have got to be kidding me.
No, I never knew that.
Do you want me to show you a picture?
Yeah, you could show it to me. I don't care.
Oh, my God. I'm dying.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
I'm covering this part, cos I just want to look at his face.
Ron would call his you know what a schmekel.
And why? Because schmekel is a great Yiddish word.
He grew up Jewish, I grew up Jewish.
Ron came from an intellectual family, an educated family,
an upper middle-class family.
His dad was a physicist, was a really smart guy.
And, for some bizarre reason, a lot of the men in porn were Jewish.
The father will tell his son, "Go get 'em.
"Make your dad proud."
I was a teacher, a licensed teacher.
I even have a master's degree.
I wanted to be an actor, so I quit the teaching.
When he had the opportunity to get into porn movies,
and I think a lot of people do this
they just have a burning desire, and they see that as a short cut.
He was a young, good-looking, thin guy.
It made sense.
This is my childhood friend.
Who wouldn't be shocked...
seeing their childhood friend as a porn star?
I mean, we're not even talking like he just did a couple of films,
you know. We're talking like, oh, my God.
This guy was like the king of porn.
I was disappointed when I heard that,
because I thought he could do so much more in life.
He's a good guy.
You know, he made a wrong turn somewhere when he went in to porn.
I don't know if he was a pervert in, like,
some sort of demented sense,
but I do think Ron Jeremy was a bit of a nymphomaniac.
Ron was a guy that you could call up all the time and just toss him
into a gang bang, toss him into whatever,
because Ronnie was up for anything.
The heyday, as far as his craziness, was the late '90s for porn.
Everybody was trying to compete with
the most ridiculous things they could.
The world record-breaking, record-breaking gang bangs.
Put your hands together
and please welcome Spontaneous Xtasy.
The first world record I set was a Spontaneous Xtasy 551,
which means 551 penises penetrated her.
So, how do you feel, being the new, er,
try at the record-breaking with the gangbang situation?
How do you feel? I feel fantastic.
I feel excited and I'm ready to fuck. Really? Yeah.
He was Santa Claus. He was a clown.
Anything... He was a gorilla.
Oh, man.
One time I'm like, "Ronnie, why don't we do a scene
"where you're, like, rolling around in grapes?"
And Ronnie really thought this was sexy.
Oh, God.
How'd that dingleberry get in there?
It didn't matter what it was.
If Ron could get laid, he'd be in your movie.
But he was still, Ron Jeremy was an icon.
Girls were always coming over to him, wanting to pose for pictures.
"You're Ron Jeremy," and they'd be flirting with him.
"Show us your dick, Ronnie."
Much like the Queen of England always does that, you know,
they learned to wave.
It was the same thing with Ron Jeremy, like the Queen of England.
You know, you've got to do that wave down so you don't hurt your hand.
He'd do the same pose with the guys.
He'd go like this and you'd go like this, how big your dick was,
or if it was a girl, she'd grab him by the dick or whatever.
Right there. Right there, yeah.
But Ron Jeremy, you could suck that dick right in front of
the whole bar, he's not going to care.
He probably forgot it happened the next day because, to him,
that was the average night.
You know, he's from a different world.
And porn is, in some ways, is a different world.
The porn industry here is massive.
They say that there's billions of dollars made in the industry,
but a vast majority comes out of the San Fernando Valley.
For the last 20—plus years, this has been the mecca of porn.
And when you drive through the Valley,
it's beautiful, sweet, normal neighborhoods,
cute little suburban houses,
and inside is, you know, hardcore porn.
My name is Alana Evans. I am an adult film star.
First time I worked with Ron Jeremy
was in one of those quaint little suburban houses.
In the late '90s, I remember telling myself,
"It's OK. It's Ron Jeremy.
"He is this megastar,
"and if I'm going to be in a scene with him, hey..."
I am in a maid's outfit and cleaning the toilet. That's right.
And he comes in and he's acting like he's going to the bathroom.
Oh, perfect.
And Ron is in this grey bathrobe.
And if you know Ron, that's kind of how Ron is.
He's in a bathrobe on set
or he's in sweats and a T-shirt with, like, Croce.
And he was really nice and he was really sweet
and he was probably cracking jokes.
After that first experience, we stayed friends.
My personal favourite working with Ron
would have been our Not The Bradys XXX series.
It was a full—blown parody of The Brady Bunch TV show,
and Ron was the butcher.
Got some beef for Alice.
Where's Alice? Erm, she's in the kitchen.
But while we were filming Not The Bradys XXX,
there was what you would typically call a green room.
I was in there.
Ron was on the couch probably sitting in his bathrobe.
There was a young woman,
and Ron's there, and he's sitting next to her.
There's probably a pillow's worth of space
between the two of them, and she's asleep.
And I look up, and there's Ron,
and he's reaching over, picking up her dress
and trying to get a look under it, as if he is going to help himself.
He lifts it up. He looks. He looks like he's going to do a bit more.
I got up and I walked right over and I shook her awake.
I told her, "Hey, honey, let's go inside."
And then I told her what had happened
and she shrugged it off, as, you know, we usually do,
but it infuriated me. And at this point,
you're really starting to see he is being an absolute creep.
I hired him for my very first movie that I ever shot,
and he played the Penguin.
Well, he looks like a penguin — An overgrown penguin...
I mean, literally a walrus,
which is close to the penguin family.
I mean, I think they're, like, cousins.
My name is Adam Glasser,
also known as Seymore Butts,
and I was a director of adult films.
If we had a break,
Ron would be using every minute of his free time
to be pursuing the next vagina, or meal — one or the other...
Because his passion for food
was almost as great as his passion for women.
Those were the two main things — Food and pussy.
He was just so singularly focused on getting laid.
He was very satisfied with being called up, saying,
"You're going to be here.
"You're going to stick your penis in a vagina at 2pm.
"We're going to pay you X amount of dollars,
"and then, you know, you're going to go leave."
Everyone wanted to be Ron's friend
because he could definitely open doors.
And not only open doors...
He's walking you right to the front of the lot.
Ron had asked me to be his red-carpet chaperone.
It was a music party. It was a really big deal.
It's all mainstream people, so a lot of
music industry executives, celebrities.
We're all just talking,
and out of nowhere — Out of nowhere...
I feel this hand go right up the back of my dress,
right into my vagina cos I'm not wearing underwear.
I screamed. I turned to my right. There's Ron.
And instantly I am angry,
but I'm so grossed out because, you know,
my vagina is very special to me
and this is my working tool, in that way, for porn.
And his reaction is so typical Ron,
like, "Whoa! What did I do? What did I do?
"Oh, my bad. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh! Oh!" And I'm embarrassed.
Ron just... just did it because he was so used to just doing it,
and my reaction...
was pure anger.
I knew what he did was wrong to me, and I knew I was not OK with it,
but was I going to make a big fuss out of it? No.
The night just continued.
We all absolutely knew that he was a groper
and that he touched women and that he would do things
that would make people uncomfortable.
So, he found comfort in his behaviour
because nobody stopped him.
I was so conditioned to think that something like that was normal,
so I remained friends with him.
Yeah, Ron was a groper.
If I'm able to bet,
"Is Ron Jeremy going to be groping anybody tonight?
I'm laying my money on, "Yes, he's groping."
Ron, be nice!
In my movies, he was a groper. He was supposed to be a groper.
It's not a secret. And here's the other thing...
In that same room that he's groping,
there's a lot of other groping going on — girls groping girls,
guys groping girls.
Girls groping GUYS-
So, the lines are just so blurred in this industry.
But, obviously, I'm not talking about sticking my fingers
in somebody's pussy or any...
or something like that. That's a different story.
There's no way Ron didn't know the difference,
whether the lines were blurred or not.
Fingers up the pussy,
cocks in asses, in vaginas...
There's no blurred lines there.
It's wrong.
Once you reach into that cookie jar
and you keep taking cookies and no-one stops you,
you're going to eat them all until they're gone,
and then you're going to move on to something else.
And with Ron, it just progressed worse and worse
because he felt entitled.
You have good sound? Yeah, give me a...
I'll give you a burp, too.
Say your line.
Say, "It's Ron, bitch." It's Ron, bitch. OK.
Yeah, action.
So, there's a joke in porn.
There's a few things you shouldn't do...
Animals, underage, and another one being Ron Jeremy.
I'm Lianne Young, and I'm a counsellor...
and I was a porn star.
I grew up in a small town called Keynsham,
which is in between Bristol and Bath.
I was just a regular girl,
a single mum from a council estate,
bringing up two children
who wanted and had ambitions in life.
Growing up from being a single parent
to being a porn star was actually not that hard a journey.
I decided to break America
because if you're going to be a star, you go to America.
Hiya. Hello. How are you? I'm very well.
You look very well. Thank you.
And where are you from?
I'm from England, UK.
Look. Let me see.
Oh!
England rules!
My porn alter ego
is definitely Billie Britt.
Hi baby.
My name's Billie and I'm from England.
The Americans used to call me Cheeky
because I did do a movie
where they interviewed my bottom.
What part of England are you from? I'm from Bristol.
Bristol? Mm-hm. What is Bristol famous for?
Me. All right! The talking arse. The talking ass!
You laugh about it even today, cos some people do say, you know,
"How did you crack America?"
I said, "I slept my way to the top," because I did.
When I was off that set,
it's almost like I left that character behind,
and then I was back to, like, Lianne the mum.
"What have I got to do for the kids? What's for dinner tonight?"
I knew that I would never do a scene with Ron Jeremy.
There's just no way!
I was like, "The man's grotesque."
I didn't want to fuck Ron.
To me, he was just...
He was old and he was hairy
and he was smelly and he thought he was funny.
December of 1983
is when I made my first film with Ron.
We had a quarter—of—a—million—dollar budget.
They flew the entire cast and crew over
from California to Hawaii.
Hey!
Tammy!
Imagine being 20 years...
Well, I was 20 when I started the film,
21 during the filming,
and all of a sudden, I'm in paradise.
Hello, I'm Alma. Hi, I'm Dan. Nice to meet you.
Oh, there's a butterfly. I must catch it.
I'd known Ron for a little bit,
but we weren't best friends, by any means.
Alma's class, but watch out when she gets hot.
And how do you know? She's like my Auntie Margaret.
I used to listen in at the bedroom door. It's wild.
Man, I'd give anything to see you fuck a woman like that.
Jerry Butler and I were definitely having
an off—screen romance.
I'd fallen in love immediately with my leading man.
Do you want to kiss me? Yeah.
He asked me to marry him, and he gave me this little...
My engagement ring was a little gold hand
with a ruby in it that you put on a little necklace.
That was my engagement ring.
There was a particular day — It was actually my 21st birthday...
And Jerry and I were on the beach and we were going at it.
And we're having a good time and the waves are crashing
and it's like a movie.
It's romantic and it's wonderful.
And then I hear somebody say, "Hey, can I join in?"
And I look up and Ron Jeremy is standing up above on the cliff.
And Jerry and I both, at the same time, said, "No!"
Just a simple no. And Ron laughed.
And so Jerry and I finished up and we watched the sunset.
I'm going back to my room and I went upstairs.
I went into the bathroom...
and I walked to the sink
and I felt somebody come up behind me,
and it was Ronnie.
He had hidden behind the door.
He grabbed my hands
and he held them down on the sides of the sink
and pulled down my bathing suit and just started fucking me...
Just fucking me right there, raping me.
I'm screaming, "No." I'm hitting him.
I'm telling him to get off of me.
And the more I say no, the more that he fucks me,
the harder he fucks me, and the more he's into it.
He's pulling my hair. He's slapping my ass.
I don't think he said anything, except, "Shut up," and, you know,
covered my mouth and held me down and...
I just stood there and I cried,
and, you know, at a certain point, you just let it happen.
You just... You just resign yourself
to the fact that you're getting raped.
I don't remember...
it being over.
I don't remember when he left, how he walked away.
I remember that he had a white terry-cloth towel
that he wiped his dick off with.
I just remember just crying and looking at myself in the mirror.
It was my 21st birthday.
I wish I would have bit and screamed louder
and punched and fought,
but I was scared and I was young and I didn't know any better.
I thought, not that I deserved it,
but that I had put myself in a porn movie.
You know, I'm there to fuck, so how can I possibly be raped?
I didn't even tell my best friend. I didn't tell anybody.
I've been asked this question.
"How do you rape a porn star?"
Is something that so many people say when we are victimised.
And it's like assuming
we're always supposed to be this fantasy that you have
that you yourself have created of us.
Those lines are so confusing for people,
but the reality is
you rape a porn star the same way you would rape anyone else...
When you violate our consent.
The clays in Hawaii were extremely long,
but I was contractually obligated to do one more sex scene with a guy.
The only man on the island is Ron Jeremy.
Our agent at the time sat down and she said,
you know, "You owe us another scene."
I'm like, "Ron's on my no list."
She's like, "You signed the contract."
So, I had sex with Ron,
the day after he raped me, on camera.
We're on the beach,
and he's behind me, thank God, again.
At least I don't have to look at his fat fucking face.
And Ron always had this thing...
He always said, "Just the tip. Just the tip. Just the tip."
And he's behind me — this is the day after he's fucking raped me...
And he goes, "Just the tip,"
and I just turned around and fucking decked him.
No-one asked. No-one said a word. And then we just kept rolling.
I don't know how the rape affected Ginger.
I met her a year after it happened,
and I saw no signs of it.
She never let on.
I never, for a second, in the '80s, thought Ron was a predator.
Pervert? Yes. Predator? No.
Why did I think Ron was a pervert? Cos he was.
I was talking to my fellow porn stars,
and they all had my thought.
With the exception of Ginger Lynn,
we were never accosted, we were never raped,
we were never pushed to our limit.
He's a pervert, but rape?
It was so out of character,
and yet I've never known Ginger Lynn to be a liar.
Choosing sides in this situation with Ginger and Ron
definitely split the industry.
I think it made it way harder on her.
People will choose sides.
They are always going to choose sides,
whether they're going to believe the accuser
or believe, you know, your suspect.
What I saw, in the old clays,
if a girl didn't like Ron Jeremy, it was very simple.
"Get the fuck away from me." I saw tons of porn girls do that.
Or, "I won't work with Ron Jeremy cos he stinks. He's disgusting."
But he never forced himself on them.
Did I ever see him assault anybody? No.
Did I ever see anybody say, "Hey, he assaulted me"? No.
Did I ever see anybody slap him in the face? No.
I was with him so many times in these kind of situations.
He's pulled his dick out at me so many times,
and I'm like, "Ron, if you don't put it back in your damn pants,
"I'm going to pull it off and shove it up your throat."
You know? "OK, OK, fine, fine, fine."
Just, "Look at this," you know? Cos he's funny. That's who he was.
He just did that. He did those things.
And if you would have told him that you were not OK with that,
he would have understood.
I'm Kianna Bradley. I'm a former adult film star.
I have been in probably over 300 films.
I love Ron. I love Ron Jeremy.
I do. He has been a very dear friend of mine.
From the first time I've come into the industry
until whenever we are gone, he will always be my friend.
Ron is a very kind person. He would do anything in the world for you.
Ron's a good guy.
He's not one of the shitty ones,
cos there's a lot of them in our industry.
As far as I know, I was the very first woman
in the industry to be raped by Ron in 1983.
I wish I would have gone to the police
so that other women wouldn't have been damaged and abused by him.
Back in the '80s, rape wasn't something that...
No, everybody was there to fuck.
Why would anybody rape anybody or, you know...?
It wasn't something that was ever really talked about.
I did confront Ron, not on my own accord.
A director sets me up with a meeting with Ron. She says, "I'll be there."
And Ron is notoriously known for never spending a dime,
a penny on anything, and he brought me flowers.
I told her what happened,
and Ron sits there and he thinks about it for a second
and he says, "That's, you know, what happened,
"but I thought you wanted it. I thought you wanted me."
And he believed it.
There was another time Ron sat down at the piano
and he played me a song.
And he wasn't trying to be big. He wasn't trying to impress anybody.
He just played the song, and it was beautiful,
and it was the only honest moment
that I've ever seen in such an ugly person.
I shoved the rape down, just...
I shoved it way down — deep down — For years before I came out.
And I did an interview in a magazine
where I talked about the rape,
and I had the worst backlash ever from people in the industry,
people calling me a liar,
people saying, "You're just trying to get famous."
Yeah, that's what I'm going to do — I'm going to get raped to be famous!
There was no caring, no compassion, no understanding.
About 15 years ago, someone put up a website on the internet,
and you could vote for The Hedgehog or Ginger Lynn...
Who was telling the truth?
It was a game to people.
They fucking voted, and it was just...
It was horrible. It was horrible. I had people...
I was defending myself for being raped.
Fuck! Who's there?
OK. Get me the fuck out of here!
Saw is a parody porn film.
The movie opens up with a male performer.
Hello, Jason. You've been placed here
because of the way that you've been treating women.
You see, Ron Jeremy is the chief of police.
So, what is the story about this screwball case?
All we do know is that
all of the victims were in the adult film industry.
So, what do you suggest, Chief? I suggest that one of you...
goes undercover.
Get it? Undercover.
And then the final scene, you see Ron is unmasked as the abuser.
Come out of the light slowly.
Well, I see you've discovered my little secret.
At that point, we all already know who Ron is,
what kind of person he is.
Here we are in this situation where, you know...
life is imitating art.
The other thing about this film
is that Ginger performs with Ron.
This is that movie?
Oh!
OK. So, to people like me, that movie is infamous.
We all have talked about this movie...
How crazy it was that, out of nowhere,
Ginger and Ron worked together.
The last time I saw Ron was on the set of a movie called Saw,
and I decided to do the film trying to find closure,
and I just got really shitfaced drunk
and I don't remember anything.
I got no closure. I just did a dumb thing.
The actresses that have went on to work with him
after these things happened to them...
Why did you continue to work with him?
Why didn't you say something then?
We have a voice,
and some of these actresses have pretty big names.
Is your point of view going to be popular?
Probably not.
I really don't care if I get backlash or not from it.
I really don't.
I have been a victim of rape and violence,
but I'm not friends with them for 20—something years afterwards,
and I damn sure won't work with them.
The fact that Ginger performed with Ron multiple times
would definitely not bode well with a jury.
But Ginger doesn't have to worry about that
because she's not on trial.
It's very hard to cry assault or rape
when having sex is your job.
But I don't think the fact that
Ginger Lynn performed with Ron Jeremy
after the time of the alleged rape,
I don't think that proves anything.
Supporters of Ron point to the fact that
maybe you have acted with him years after you were raped,
and they will minimise what happened.
That's not my problem. That's...
The fact that people will minimise what happened to me,
I they minimised Ron Jeremy raping me I
because I had sex with him on film afterwards...
The fact that I was raped,
I'm still raped, even if I fucked him afterwards,
and that's my poor decision, my poor judgment, my addiction,
my problem, not yours.
Stay out of my life.
The last time I saw Ron was at my house.
It was a Fourth of July barbecue,
but I remember he was really pleading his case
that he was innocent.
I'll never forget, he had a picture of Ginger
on the beach in Hawaii, like an 8x10.
She was wearing, like, a red one-piece,
looking over her shoulder, I'm assuming at him, smiling at him,
before they had sex that day.
I think he would show it to anybody that would listen
just to get his side out there.
"How could she say I raped her
"if she worked with me several times after?"
And I almost think that, in his brain,
he thought he was innocent of everything.
Ron was paid to be this person for so many years.
Everywhere Ron went, he was...
"Can you touch my girlfriend's boob? Can you touch her ass?
"Let me see your cock."
Those are the things that we paid him to do.
Those are the things that we praised him to do,
we awarded him.
So many people were saying that
they're not going to be around anyone
that supports his kind of behaviour, but you supported it for years!
I think he was made an example of within our industry,
but what people are forgetting
is that they're not the sex industry.
They are not pornographic industry.
That's who we are. We have sex.
We fondle fans. We climb on top of them.
We put our tongues in their throats.
That's who we are.
Like, we all did it. It wasn't just Ron.
Ron's not aggressive.
He would not want to hurt someone's feelings.
He was an asshole, he was a prick sometimes,
but he would not have wanted to hurt...
any of us. You know, he wasn't that kind of person.
I do not believe he's capable of rape whatsoever. I don't.
I believe they targeted him.
The first night that I met Ron, I was out with a former housemate
to the Rainbow Rooms, and she just goes on over there
and says, "Hey, Ron, meet Billie Britt."
You know, "She's the porn queen of England."
Ron was really welcoming.
It's almost like meeting a friend after 20 years.
"Hey, how are you doing?" You know, "How's America treating you?"
He was actually quite a regular person.
When I'd met Ron again,
it was Halloween 2000.
The adult industry as a whole,
there were many charity events that everybody got dressed up for.
This one was at the House Of Blues.
It was like a live venue where bands played.
Lots of industry people and lots of regular people.
People talking amongst ourselves, just doing our thing.
It was like a girls' night out.
I wasn't in performer mode.
I was in relaxed Lianne Young mode
and I was out for a good night.
I was there with my ex-husband, and Lianne was there.
And at this point, I've known Lianne,
you know, for quite some time and we're quite close,
and I remember we are sitting at a table.
I was drinking out of a bottle of beer
and I'm watching a band,
the girls are talking amongst themselves and...
literally, you know...
It happened from behind.
I just remember just being pushed over the table, dropping my drink...
and a penis being pushed inside of me.
I manage to turn to the right-hand side
to get myself back up
and it was Ron behind me.
And I smacked him round the face and said,
"What the fucking hell do you think you're doing?
"Get your fucking hands off me!"
And he still had his penis out when I slapped him round the face.
His dick is still hanging there.
The man's just raped me, doesn't give a shit.
After he'd finished dipping himself, he just wandered off into the crowd.
When I close my eyes and I count the seconds,
it's only four, five seconds.
But that was a bloody long four, five seconds.
And I was just there going to my friends, "What the fuck?"
The people I told were like, "That's Ronnie. He does that.
"He thinks he's just got a free—for—all.
"He's got, like, this golden pass in porn."
I was raped.
You can't report it. You're a sex worker.
You've just got to move on. You've just got to move on.
"Do you want another drink?"
I cannot even remember anybody going, "I'm sorry.
"I'm sorry that happened to you."
I saw what Ron did to Lianne.
The force of him coming up behind her,
we were all just kind of shocked at what just happened.
But, you know, again...
Ron is a bit of a pig and Ron does stuff like this.
Nobody said, "Oh, that's rape,"
because we're so desensitised to the sexualness of our existence.
I think the biggest thing that hindered the police
from doing anything about any of the cases...
Because none of us went to the police
because, in our minds, they would laugh at us.
Help! Now, wait a minute, Red.
We are pushing it much too far right here.
What's gotten into him? Please forgive me. I was just...
I was overwhelmed by your feminine charm.
Ron has a very, very jokey persona.
When I see Ron playing his persona, you know, like in The Flintstones,
it makes me absolutely sick.
Ooh!
You've only been sold one side of Ron.
Ron's not going to show you his true colours
unless you were a victim of Ron's.
People hide behind characters,
and the fact is, predators are so good at hiding,
and Ron is one of them.
The man's a rapist.
I often do think,
"Will Ron remember it?" and I don't think he will.
I don't think Ron remembers half he's done,
and I know that
I'm not the only one.
You're a fucking idiot! I tell you to, like...
What, like you're two years old? I like to scream like one.
He was a zombie. He could barely talk.
This is an enormous case.
It's more charges than Harvey Weinstein faced.
I have to believe that
people knew that he was as violent as he was
because there are so many accounts of it.
It's time to get Ron Jeremy charged with how he raped me 20 years ago.