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New charges have been
filed against Ron Jeremy.

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The L.A. County DA's office says they
are charging the adult film star

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with another 20
sexual assault counts.

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Ron Jeremy was the biggest
porn star in the world.

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He always made it a point to
walk through the crowd.

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People loved Ron Jeremy!

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I think Ron was a sex addict
at the top of the scale.

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People don't want to hear
bad stories about their heroes.

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They don't want to hear that
that person's a predator.

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I think there's hundreds
of victims out there.

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There isn't a day that
I don't think about it.

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It's time to go to court...

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and get Ron Jeremy charged

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with how he raped me 20 years ago.

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When bad things happen,
people definitely come to me.

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Our industry attracts plenty
of vulnerable people,

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so I feel like it's a big part of
my job to protect them,

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because I'm the president
of the performer union.

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As time passed, really,
there were a lot fewer women

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that were willing to perform
in a scene with Ron.

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People weren't hiring him any more.

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But we can't stop the people
in the real world

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from being obsessed with him.

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And so, at that point,
Ron's career took off in other ways.

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Ron Jeremy is ubiquitous.

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I had my doctor be like,

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"You know who lives down
the street from me?

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"Ron Jeremy! Isn't that wild?"

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I'm, like, sitting there in,
you know, the little gown,

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the hospital gown, like...

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My name is Siouxsie Q,

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and I am a writer, performer,
advocate, consultant.

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All of the above.

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I was aware of Ron Jeremy
the first time I saw

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the sublime "Date Rape" video.

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Ron played the incarcerated person —
Ironically...

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That raped the date rapist.

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We were teenagers, but Ron Jeremy
had made it into the mainstream

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visibility, so much so that these
middle schoolers in California

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knew who he was at that point.

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Porn really fell apart for most
people in porn, around 2011-12.

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It was no longer the free money
it was in the 2000s.

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Now you had the shift — the power
had turned over to the Internet,

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and then, people thought,

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"OK, nobody wants to pay
for porn any more."

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Ron Jeremy I don't think,
was affected by that happening,

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because Ron Jeremy was now the
face of a bottle of rum.

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Ron Jeremy shirts, clothes, cigars.

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His own dildo — he made more
money off his dildo

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than probably anything.

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Reality TV shows became
really big for Ron.

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And it also gave him
this new-found fame, in that way.

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My personal favourite was
The Surreal Life.

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Who's that man, boss?

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He's so hairy.

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Ron was able to cross over into

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so many different mainstream
projects like this.

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Here's Ron Jeremy
on mainstream cable TV.

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It was just crazy
because, in our minds,

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we're not that kind of celebrity.

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If I, by any chance, get excited,
you'll be well aware of it.

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OK, you're not getting
excited on me.

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Oh!

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Ron was making friends with
famous musicians,

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famous TV and movie stars.

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So, Ron saw this elite life.

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Ron Jeremy always made it a point

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to walk through the crowd.

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He loved getting recognised.

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And sure as shit —
Whoever this guy was,

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Tom Jones stood up and said,

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"Ron Jeremy, it's an honour
to meet you."

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People fucking loved Ron Jeremy!

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My name is Craig Gross.

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For 20 years,
I was called the Porn Pastor.

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I started a ministry
called XXX Church.

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I helped people that were
struggling with porn,

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and I helped people that wanted
to leave the sex industry.

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But the best part about
being the Porn Pastor was one

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of my best friends is Ron Jeremy.

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I wanted to be Ron's friend
from the moment I met him.

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And, yeah, it was like,
"I'm going to debate Ron Jeremy."

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I just said it out loud.

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He has a problem with my business.

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And for every point he comes out
against me, I'll slam dunk

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each and every one of them.

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Ron's 5'6", and he wears crocs...

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So he's not slam-dunking anything.

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Pastor 10, porn star 0.
But I'll catch up.

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Ron and I spent ten years
on the road doing what we called

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The Porn Debate, Master Debaters.

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I mean, we have all the jokes,
we have all the things.

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We've been from
Australia to Canada, to,

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God, I mean, everywhere.

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I'm here because I love Ron Jeremy.

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I think, you know, far beyond being
a porn star, he's a cultural icon,

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and it's been a dream of mine
to see the man speak.

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And I'm all for him tonight,
I'm going for what he has to say.

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How loved that that guy
was across the world.

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I love Ron Jeremy!

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Ron Jeremy is awesome!

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There's women everywhere.

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One question. Yes?

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Can... I want to see it.

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I mean, I'm at dinner with him,
and the waitress is flirting.

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And Ron says, "You want to see it?"

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And she says, "Yeah."

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And so, in between getting our food,

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they're behind the dumpster.

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And he comes back, and now,
she's delivering our food.

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He's had sex with 6,000 women.

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Like, it's a challenge and
a conquest for women, not for Ron.

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I've wrestled Ron in
a wrestling ring.

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Didn't the Lord say,
"Turn the other cheek"?

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I've been at Easter service
at church with him.

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Ron was a teddy bear, a sweet guy.

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He cared about you.

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I've let him around my kids
from a young age.

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I was on a tour bus with him
when my kids were three and five.

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We called him "Uncle Ron".

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Ron's not a rapist.

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I drove Ron a lot.

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I was Ron's personal assistant.
That's what I did.

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I was his driver and his secretary,
and his organiser, everything else.

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But I really was
his personal assistant.

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My name is Moss Krivin, and since,
for the last two decades,

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I've been Ron's closest friend.

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No—one's spent more time
with Ron than me.

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Bar none, by a factor of ten.

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We were just hanging out
5-6 nights a week.

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I was single.
He's always been single.

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So, to go out and, kind of,
chase women, go out for, you know,

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a night on the town.

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When you spent as much time
as I did, you were often in places

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you could not buy your way into.

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He was out all night, every night.

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The next party, the next party.

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Ron set up his whole life
so he never had to answer anyone.

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He lived by himself.

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No girlfriend, no wife, nothing.

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He could come and go.

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There was no-one to tell him,

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"You're not going to
stay out all night."

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He was too cheap to pay for dates.

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He didn't want to take
the time to go out on a date.

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Ron needed everything right now.

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So, if you want sex,
you're incredibly impatient

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and you're too cheap to pay
for dates, what can you do?

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You're so cute,
cos you're like this.

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He had to use his fame
to meet women.

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And, you know, the way he did it
caused a lot of problems.

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It didn't have to,
but that's just the way it is.

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Ron did what Ron did.

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He went out looking for women,
and we slept all day out at night.

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I mean, I've only told you
this 1,000 times for 29 years!

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It's just unbelievable to me that
you can't understand this concept!

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Ron drove me absolutely crazy.

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I would scream at him.

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I didn't care.

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Why do you like to scream like...?
Because you're a fucking idiot!

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I tell you, and you're like, "What?"
Like you're two years old!

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Because there'll be no-one
to talk to when you

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fucking get around to it!

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I am more than certainly
the only guy that ever shared

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a hotel room with Ron.

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It was always an adventure,
for lack of a better word.

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His feet were filthy,
he'd get into bed filthy.

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One time, there was a Jacuzzi
in the room.

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He was trying to urinate
into the jacuzzi.

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He missed — I later found out
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it went all over
my personal toiletries.

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I threw everything out.

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I figured out later cos it stunk.

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A lot of the stuff
he did was abhorrent.

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But you realise after
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he's not going to change.

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Ron didn't care about urinating
on all of my stuff.

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He never thought of any consequences
for anything that he did.

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It caused every problem in
his life just from that.

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And I'm like,
"Ron, don't turn into the stereotype

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"of the dirty old man" — which is,
of course, exactly what he was.

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The times I did hire Ron,

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the girls demanded that Ron showered
immediately before the scene.

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It was, "That guy's fucking gross.

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"If you want me to fuck him,
he needs to wash his ass and balls.

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"And then, we're good."

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"And you need to pay me 200 bucks."

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When you look at Ron
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you see such a change in Ron.

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Ron visibly stopped
taking care of himself.

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He's not showering.

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He started to smell.

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Ryan absolutely became
a cartoon version of a pervert.

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The creepy old man, hunched forward.

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Yet he was still coming
to every event and every party.

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And he's becoming more of this
decrepit old man.

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When I first met him in 2014,

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he looked much older and

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more grizzled than he did in
the music video I had seen him in.

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There was this award show,

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and I was doing my podcast
at the time.

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And that's when I saw Ron.

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I went up to him and
I gave my little spiel.

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I was like, "Hello, I'm Siouxsie Q.

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"I host a podcast called
The Whorecast,

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"and I would love to interview you.
May I?"

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He said, "Yes, I would love to.

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"Let's do it right now."

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"Let's go back here into this
stairwell. It'll be quieter."

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"Of course," right,
is what I'm thinking.

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Like... smart idea.

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Of course.
It's way too loud out here.

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So once we were in the stairwell,
he was in my physical space.

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He was coming for my mouth
with his mouth.

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As reaching up under my skirt
with his, like, disgusting,

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long, gross, fingernails, like,
just such an unkempt...

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As soon as I got close enough,
I could smell him.

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And he smelled bad.

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It was aggressive,
it was forceful, it was fast.

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It didn't even occur
to me to scream.

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Ron Jeremy is trying
to digitally penetrate me,

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with his disgusting fingernails.

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The only thought in my head was,

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"No, we gotta get out
of here safely."

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And I was able to get away.

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I remember going to the bathroom,

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and I remember my underwear
was bloody.

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I realised, "Oh, this blood
must be from when Ron tried

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"to shove his hands inside me."

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Gross.

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A girl from San Francisco
comes to LA.

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It's her first time in the adult
entertainment industry and, like,

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this is the welcome she gets.

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This old, predatory man
gets her alone in a stairwell,

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grabs her genitals and
makes her bleed.

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I definitely thought that,
if I spoke up and said,

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"Ron Jeremy did this to me,"

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I would be ridiculed,
I would be ostracised.

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I know that after he hurt me,
he hurt a lot more people.

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I think I still blame myself.

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Yeah.

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And that's just, like,

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that's part of the psychology
of survival, I think.

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Because if I can blame myself,
then I can control it.

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Then I can have some, like...

246
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Just, like, concept that what
happened was controllable by me,

247
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even though it wasn't.

248
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<i>\</i> So... yeah. I

249
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I think Ron does whatever
he wants when he wants,

250
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because women like me,
for so long, wouldn't react,

251
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or we would just take it.

252
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I felt at the time
that Ron had assaulted me,

253
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I didn't see it as a crime.

254
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Because I'd been conditioned
to think that this is OK.

255
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I was raped by Ron and
abused by many.

256
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There was nobody that
I could turn to.

257
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And anybody that I tried
to talk to about it were like,

258
00:15:08,911 --> 00:15:11,217
"Ron does that to so many people.

259
00:15:11,241 --> 00:15:13,097
"He's got away with it
for so many years."

260
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It's just another victim —
Happens to everybody.

261
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Well, it's my own fault for
being a porn star.

262
00:15:20,962 --> 00:15:24,248
It's not easy to come out
if you've been raped.

263
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It's hard to talk about it,
especially for women in porn.

264
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And I think that a lot of the women
were probably exactly like me.

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They were scared.

266
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They didn't know who to tell.

267
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They didn't know who would care.

268
00:15:40,991 --> 00:15:43,658
I'll never forget when
Ginger told me about what

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Ron did to her in the '80s.

270
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And there have been victims the
entire time since then.

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In our industry, when someone
like Ron is your abuser,

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he's everywhere you turn.

273
00:16:05,911 --> 00:16:10,458
So, it was very ironic
how Ron's still the megastar.

274
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Everyone wants him.

275
00:16:16,602 --> 00:16:18,498
Ron Jeremy! Surprise for you.

276
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Yes! Brother!

277
00:16:19,842 --> 00:16:23,428
Can I give you a hug?
I know who you are!

278
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So, when Ron was doing
the Big Brother in Norway,

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there's footage of him
doing a signing,

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and signing women's breasts.

281
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So, "RJ," and then, a heart.

282
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See? See what you missed?

283
00:16:38,402 --> 00:16:40,738
See what you missed?

284
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Actually, it does come off.

285
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- What do we want?
- Justice!

286
00:16:45,812 --> 00:16:48,378
When do we want it? Now!
What do we want...?

287
00:16:48,402 --> 00:16:52,791
Harvey, you and others
like you are done.

288
00:16:54,202 --> 00:16:56,097
- What do we want?
- Justice!

289
00:16:56,121 --> 00:16:57,658
People kept wondering,

290
00:16:57,682 --> 00:17:00,806
when's porn going to have
its MeToo movement?

291
00:17:03,090 --> 00:17:07,116
Finally in 2017,
a big expose came out,

292
00:17:07,140 --> 00:17:11,936
mostly webcam models talking about
being touched and being groped.

293
00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,657
It was young ladies
that aren't accustomed to Ron.

294
00:17:16,681 --> 00:17:19,787
Here we have Ron Jeremy
grabbing ass.

295
00:17:19,811 --> 00:17:24,347
Here we have Ron Jeremy fondling
the tit of a random female

296
00:17:24,371 --> 00:17:26,377
out in front of a strip club.

297
00:17:26,401 --> 00:17:29,736
Many different women started coming
forward with similar allegations

298
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against Ron Jeremy.

299
00:17:31,451 --> 00:17:33,267
How is that OK?

300
00:17:33,291 --> 00:17:39,347
It's definitely a new generation of
performers that are taking Ron on.

301
00:17:39,371 --> 00:17:42,571
And so, the heat was turned up.

302
00:17:49,171 --> 00:17:50,477
My name is James Queally.

303
00:17:50,501 --> 00:17:53,986
I'm the criminal court reporter
for the Los Angeles Times.

304
00:17:54,010 --> 00:17:57,547
So, at this point in 2017,
there is a pretty lengthy list

305
00:17:57,571 --> 00:17:59,907
of women that have come
out against him.

306
00:17:59,931 --> 00:18:02,587
Some of the allegations against
Ron Jeremy in this case

307
00:18:02,611 --> 00:18:06,986
date back to, I believe,
as early as the early '80s.

308
00:18:07,010 --> 00:18:09,907
But it doesn't really explode into
the public consciousness until 2017.

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There start to be media reports.

310
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People start to come out
and accuse him of rape,

311
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accuse him of groping.

312
00:18:15,931 --> 00:18:19,787
And Jeremy was again, kind of,
like, a kingpin figure there.

313
00:18:19,811 --> 00:18:22,531
It scared a lot of people
into silence for a lot of years.

314
00:18:34,401 --> 00:18:36,707
Ron called me the first time
that they had came

315
00:18:36,731 --> 00:18:38,227
and started questioning him.

316
00:18:38,251 --> 00:18:41,347
He just thought it was some hogwash.

317
00:18:41,371 --> 00:18:44,866
You know, because he said,
"Kianna, these stories, like,

318
00:18:44,890 --> 00:18:46,587
"what the hell is going on?

319
00:18:46,611 --> 00:18:49,457
"This just is absurd.
It makes no sense to me."

320
00:18:49,481 --> 00:18:53,347
There were a few different attempts
at prosecuting Ron for these cases,

321
00:18:53,371 --> 00:18:55,816
but they were all
in different states.

322
00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,837
They were looking into
legal cases against him,

323
00:18:58,861 --> 00:19:01,481
but no-one had anything
that could stick.

324
00:19:02,731 --> 00:19:06,010
So, it looked like he was allowed
to get away with it.

325
00:19:11,371 --> 00:19:14,557
Ron Jeremy dismissed them
as old accusations.

326
00:19:14,581 --> 00:19:16,866
And then, when he was interviewed,

327
00:19:16,890 --> 00:19:19,347
he just flatly denied that he'd
done anything wrong.

328
00:19:19,371 --> 00:19:21,147
How do you respond to
all the charges

329
00:19:21,171 --> 00:19:22,667
against the woman suing you?

330
00:19:22,691 --> 00:19:25,196
Look, I could sue that guy
for wearing brown pants.

331
00:19:25,220 --> 00:19:28,066
In this country, you can sue
for anything, you know?

332
00:19:28,090 --> 00:19:29,736
It was dropped by the DA.

333
00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,507
Yeah. That says it all right there.

334
00:19:32,531 --> 00:19:34,816
And then, what do you do?

335
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,347
You could sue for a bad
fashion statement. Yeah.

336
00:19:37,371 --> 00:19:39,736
"Those pants don't match
that shirt," you know?

337
00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,227
But that's how it is.

338
00:19:41,251 --> 00:19:44,177
But the DA knocked it down,
so it doesn't exist anymore.

339
00:19:44,201 --> 00:19:46,227
In America, anybody can
sue for anything.

340
00:19:46,251 --> 00:19:50,147
That's the greatness of America —
And also, the confusion of America.

341
00:19:50,171 --> 00:19:53,866
He obviously knew these things
had been floating for a long time.

342
00:19:53,890 --> 00:19:57,307
I believe this is the first time
that you almost started to see the,

343
00:19:57,331 --> 00:20:00,090
kind of, the arrogance he has taken
towards some of this.

344
00:20:05,661 --> 00:20:09,587
I very firmly believe
he doesn't understand why

345
00:20:09,611 --> 00:20:11,866
he's being persecuted.

346
00:20:11,890 --> 00:20:13,387
Ron is getting old.

347
00:20:13,411 --> 00:20:17,427
He's frail and mentally incompetent.

348
00:20:17,451 --> 00:20:18,816
He's fragile.

349
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,427
More so the past 4-5 years.

350
00:20:22,451 --> 00:20:24,746
How many porn movies have you
been in the past year?

351
00:20:24,770 --> 00:20:26,097
I have the world's record.

352
00:20:26,121 --> 00:20:29,147
I know that,
in a period of 3-4 years,

353
00:20:29,171 --> 00:20:32,691
it's been about 800, 900, er, films.

354
00:20:35,121 --> 00:20:36,331
All right.

355
00:20:39,020 --> 00:20:43,387
I think him being the butt
of everyone's jokes...

356
00:20:43,411 --> 00:20:45,996
"Let's laugh at him,"
you know, he's so used to it.

357
00:20:46,020 --> 00:20:49,307
But people don't also
understand that his health

358
00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:51,277
was fading very badly.

359
00:20:51,301 --> 00:20:53,027
We had a little bite to eat.

360
00:20:53,051 --> 00:20:55,661
"Why don't you guys
come here, say hello?"

361
00:20:59,970 --> 00:21:03,537
It is believable
that he might have narcolepsy.

362
00:21:03,561 --> 00:21:07,897
It's not normal to be falling asleep
like that, just in mid-conversation.

363
00:21:07,921 --> 00:21:11,357
But he's just the butt of the joke.

364
00:21:15,691 --> 00:21:19,301
I see the signs of dementia.

365
00:21:21,531 --> 00:21:23,467
Jeremy, right? j-E-R-E-M-Y?

366
00:21:23,491 --> 00:21:24,611
You got it.

367
00:21:29,561 --> 00:21:31,866
I could call him today.

368
00:21:31,890 --> 00:21:33,507
"Hey, Ron, do you want
to come over?"

369
00:21:33,531 --> 00:21:35,307
"Well, who is this?"
"It's Kianna."

370
00:21:35,331 --> 00:21:36,637
"Kianna who?"

371
00:21:36,661 --> 00:21:38,996
"Kianna Bradley, Ron,
I was a contractor with..."

372
00:21:39,020 --> 00:21:40,850
Call him the next day,
do the same thing.

373
00:21:43,131 --> 00:21:48,491
He won't remember who I am
until I explain it to him.

374
00:21:53,770 --> 00:21:56,177
Ron was totally senile.

375
00:21:56,201 --> 00:21:59,076
-  "The." The? T—H—E. I.

376
00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:04,147
As Ron's health, his cleanliness,
his mental state deteriorated,

377
00:22:04,171 --> 00:22:07,187
his behaviour got worse.

378
00:22:07,211 --> 00:22:11,531
Ron definitely got worse with
his offending over time.

379
00:22:32,571 --> 00:22:35,347
I may have shot Ron Jeremy's
last-ever sex scene.

380
00:22:35,371 --> 00:22:37,627
A few years ago, it was around 2018.

381
00:22:40,701 --> 00:22:43,786
He'd just had surgery, but then,
he had like a herniated belly button

382
00:22:43,810 --> 00:22:46,116
sticking out, and everything.

383
00:22:46,140 --> 00:22:49,267
He got so old, he could play
a lot of these old-man roles.

384
00:22:49,291 --> 00:22:51,547
And he pulled off the scene.

385
00:22:51,571 --> 00:22:52,947
I mean, it wasn't great.

386
00:22:52,971 --> 00:22:54,986
What do you think of that?

387
00:22:55,010 --> 00:22:57,866
Skin me wet, grandpa.

388
00:22:57,890 --> 00:22:59,427
Well, if that's what it takes,

389
00:22:59,451 --> 00:23:01,731
I'm going to keep playing
harmonica for life.

390
00:23:08,060 --> 00:23:10,397
I had no idea who Ron Jeremy was.

391
00:23:10,421 --> 00:23:11,986
I had no clue.

392
00:23:12,010 --> 00:23:14,067
I wasn't into that.

393
00:23:14,091 --> 00:23:16,427
But I'm not a judgmental
kind of woman.

394
00:23:16,451 --> 00:23:20,786
So meeting him, I was like,
"Oh, hey, you know, who are you?

395
00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:22,507
"I don't know anything about you."

396
00:23:22,531 --> 00:23:24,171
And we just hit it off.

397
00:23:29,010 --> 00:23:31,067
I am Charity Carson-Hawke,

398
00:23:31,091 --> 00:23:33,427
and I work in the
real estate industry.

399
00:23:33,451 --> 00:23:35,866
I am a Ten Commandment girl —
And I believe in the Lord,

400
00:23:35,890 --> 00:23:37,707
and I pray every night.

401
00:23:37,731 --> 00:23:40,397
My father was a Baptist preacher,

402
00:23:40,421 --> 00:23:42,690
and he could read you
the Bible backwards.

403
00:23:43,940 --> 00:23:48,277
Ron is a very smart man,
and I was such a school nerd,

404
00:23:48,301 --> 00:23:50,587
so we had a lot to talk about.

405
00:23:50,611 --> 00:23:55,227
I do believe he liked that I
was not in that industry.

406
00:23:55,251 --> 00:23:57,557
I was a different kind of girl,
you know,

407
00:23:57,581 --> 00:23:59,507
being brought up in the church.

408
00:23:59,531 --> 00:24:01,947
We would be eating dinner,
and he's like, "I gotta go.

409
00:24:01,971 --> 00:24:03,197
"I gotta go sign boobs."

410
00:24:03,221 --> 00:24:05,507
I'm like, "Go do your thing."

411
00:24:05,531 --> 00:24:07,866
He met my family,
he met my children.

412
00:24:07,890 --> 00:24:10,227
So, he became a family friend —
He met my mum.

413
00:24:10,251 --> 00:24:13,557
So, it was, yeah, it was
a different kind of relationship,

414
00:24:13,581 --> 00:24:14,866
but it worked.

415
00:24:14,890 --> 00:24:16,786
We were friends for 26 years,

416
00:24:16,810 --> 00:24:19,147
so there's a lot
of memories involved.

417
00:24:19,171 --> 00:24:24,116
There was no chemistry of any
kind of romantic at all.

418
00:24:24,140 --> 00:24:25,307
That would never happen.

419
00:24:25,331 --> 00:24:27,707
I was not his cup of tea,
and he was not mine.

420
00:24:27,731 --> 00:24:29,197
That's why I trusted him.

421
00:24:29,221 --> 00:24:31,947
I trusted Ron 110%.

422
00:24:31,971 --> 00:24:35,786
So, that's why, no matter
what situation we were in,

423
00:24:35,810 --> 00:24:39,557
I knew Ron would never crossed
that line — and he never did.

424
00:24:39,581 --> 00:24:43,197
But the last time I met with him...

425
00:24:43,221 --> 00:24:45,027
he, like, he was not the same.

426
00:24:45,051 --> 00:24:47,020
He was not the same
Ron Jeremy I knew.

427
00:24:51,451 --> 00:24:53,027
He was a zombie.

428
00:24:53,051 --> 00:24:55,116
He could barely talk.

429
00:24:55,140 --> 00:24:57,477
Listen, girls, please drink.
Girls, please.

430
00:24:57,501 --> 00:24:59,786
Cos the more you drink,
the more — the better I look.

431
00:24:59,810 --> 00:25:01,331
Here is... OK.

432
00:25:02,810 --> 00:25:05,746
A lot of the times,
he wouldn't be super coherent,

433
00:25:05,770 --> 00:25:08,221
but still creepy Ron.

434
00:25:15,501 --> 00:25:17,027
July 27th.

435
00:25:17,051 --> 00:25:21,357
We're in Ron Jeremy's condo.

436
00:25:21,381 --> 00:25:22,916
This is not a storage facility.

437
00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:24,746
This is Ron's house.

438
00:25:24,770 --> 00:25:29,147
I think Ron's tendency to hoard
things was very indicative

439
00:25:29,171 --> 00:25:31,746
of someone in a state
of mental decline.

440
00:25:31,770 --> 00:25:34,357
Ron's condo was a disaster.
It was a disaster.

441
00:25:34,381 --> 00:25:36,277
This is Ron's living room.

442
00:25:36,301 --> 00:25:38,786
It was literally unliveable.

443
00:25:38,810 --> 00:25:41,786
And it just got worse and
worse over the years.

444
00:25:41,810 --> 00:25:44,587
And then, for the last several
months, when he was free,

445
00:25:44,611 --> 00:25:46,666
he wasn't even living in his condo.

446
00:25:46,690 --> 00:25:50,666
He moved across the street to
the motel where Janis Joplin died.

447
00:25:50,690 --> 00:25:53,227
He was also paying
other women to live there,

448
00:25:53,251 --> 00:25:55,507
just to have people around him.

449
00:25:55,531 --> 00:25:57,227
Like a shark has to keep swimming,

450
00:25:57,251 --> 00:25:59,741
Ron had to have people around
him constantly.

451
00:26:06,531 --> 00:26:11,611
The last time I met with Ron
was in May of 2020.

452
00:26:13,971 --> 00:26:16,227
He was in a West Hollywood hotel.

453
00:26:16,251 --> 00:26:17,381
It was kind of weird to me.

454
00:26:18,940 --> 00:26:22,197
I said, "Ron, why are you at this
hotel? You live across the street."

455
00:26:22,221 --> 00:26:25,437
"Oh, my house is so messy. It's OK.
Anyways, come meet everybody."

456
00:26:25,461 --> 00:26:26,947
And I was like, "OK."

457
00:26:26,971 --> 00:26:30,507
So, me and Ron are catching up
like old times, like we always did.

458
00:26:30,531 --> 00:26:32,477
Nothing out of the ordinary.

459
00:26:32,501 --> 00:26:36,357
And Ron was walking around
in the room, and he said,

460
00:26:36,381 --> 00:26:38,916
"Hey, Charity, follow me.
I want to show you something."

461
00:26:38,940 --> 00:26:41,746
So, that's when I followed him.

462
00:26:41,770 --> 00:26:43,531
And I wind up being in a bathroom.

463
00:26:47,461 --> 00:26:50,051
Soon as he opened the door...

464
00:26:51,770 --> 00:26:54,866
I followed him,
and he slammed the door.

465
00:26:54,890 --> 00:26:57,197
And that's when I saw the
devil in disguise,

466
00:26:57,221 --> 00:26:59,467
because he got very violent with me.

467
00:26:59,491 --> 00:27:00,890
He pushed me up against the wall.

468
00:27:03,171 --> 00:27:06,467
He was going towards my breasts,
and I'm fighting him

469
00:27:06,491 --> 00:27:09,827
and I'm screaming at him,
and he was getting very aggressive

470
00:27:09,851 --> 00:27:12,357
with me in that bathroom.

471
00:27:12,381 --> 00:27:14,666
And that's when I got really scared,

472
00:27:14,690 --> 00:27:17,301
because I'd never been locked
in a bathroom with Ron.

473
00:27:18,851 --> 00:27:23,996
It just got so volatile
in that bathroom,

474
00:27:24,020 --> 00:27:26,890
and I wasn't having that,
so I fought him.

475
00:27:28,661 --> 00:27:32,666
And, while he's still trying
to unravel my clothes and grabbing

476
00:27:32,690 --> 00:27:36,157
my hands, trying to put it on
his penis, like, he was trying with

477
00:27:36,181 --> 00:27:38,461
all his might to rape me
in that bathroom.

478
00:27:39,690 --> 00:27:42,666
I'm screaming at him,
and he's still...

479
00:27:42,690 --> 00:27:45,357
His mind was to rape me.

480
00:27:45,381 --> 00:27:49,717
My mind was to get away from him
and get out that bathroom door.

481
00:27:49,741 --> 00:27:51,307
And I got loose.

482
00:27:51,331 --> 00:27:54,971
And I'm one of the lucky ones
that broke free from him.

483
00:27:56,181 --> 00:28:00,557
I just stood there in
the hallway at this hotel room,

484
00:28:00,581 --> 00:28:04,251
and a shock, like, my whole
world just stood still.

485
00:28:05,581 --> 00:28:08,827
It's hard to explain that feeling
when you're almost being raped

486
00:28:08,851 --> 00:28:12,437
in the bathroom from a friend
of yours for 26 years.

487
00:28:12,461 --> 00:28:14,796
And then, you're in the hallway,
and you're like,

488
00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:16,131
"Did that just happen?"

489
00:28:17,541 --> 00:28:20,996
And I remember this day
like it was yesterday.

490
00:28:21,020 --> 00:28:23,796
And I think I always will.

491
00:28:23,820 --> 00:28:25,637
Erm...

492
00:28:25,661 --> 00:28:28,587
When he did that to me that night,

493
00:28:28,611 --> 00:28:30,587
it was a betrayal on his side.

494
00:28:30,611 --> 00:28:35,746
And that's the hard part, because
I was such good friends with him

495
00:28:35,770 --> 00:28:40,157
for all those years,
and I never knew nothing about that.

496
00:28:40,181 --> 00:28:43,387
I'd love to show you all my dick,
but it won't be here on stage.

497
00:28:43,411 --> 00:28:46,357
My dick is out parking the car.

498
00:28:46,381 --> 00:28:49,187
They're actually using
my dick for, er...

499
00:28:49,211 --> 00:28:52,746
for speedbumps, so the cars
won't speed, you know?

500
00:28:52,770 --> 00:28:57,157
As things got on with him,
he got worse.

501
00:28:57,181 --> 00:29:01,237
Ron started being accused of things
that weren't happening before.

502
00:29:01,261 --> 00:29:04,437
It didn't seem like anything
really mattered any more.

503
00:29:04,461 --> 00:29:08,796
And it was just so
one-track mind with him.

504
00:29:08,820 --> 00:29:11,077
On that note...

505
00:29:11,101 --> 00:29:12,381
that's the end of the show.

506
00:29:17,131 --> 00:29:18,957
I couldn't wait to get out of there.

507
00:29:18,981 --> 00:29:21,277
So I get in my car.

508
00:29:21,301 --> 00:29:25,027
That's when I drive back crying,
freaked out, shaken up.

509
00:29:25,051 --> 00:29:27,666
Now I'm in that emotion
where I'm pissed.

510
00:29:27,690 --> 00:29:30,666
I cannot let him get away
with what he just did.

511
00:29:30,690 --> 00:29:34,517
So, that's when I reached out
to the LA District Attorney.

512
00:29:34,541 --> 00:29:38,907
I made my report, and it
makes me sick to my stomach

513
00:29:38,931 --> 00:29:41,387
that he's been doing this
for all these years,

514
00:29:41,411 --> 00:29:43,131
and I never knew anything about it.

515
00:29:52,131 --> 00:29:54,796
Takes years and years
for a criminal case to be built.

516
00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:57,746
I don't believe the delay
was a matter of

517
00:29:57,770 --> 00:29:59,187
police not investigating.

518
00:29:59,211 --> 00:30:03,597
It was a matter of police getting
enough women to come forward.

519
00:30:03,621 --> 00:30:06,717
Finally, they had four different
women and were able to use that

520
00:30:06,741 --> 00:30:08,411
as the basis of an investigation.

521
00:30:13,020 --> 00:30:15,317
More breaking news this hour...

522
00:30:15,341 --> 00:30:17,717
Legendary porn star Ron Jeremy
has been charged with

523
00:30:17,741 --> 00:30:20,027
sexually assaulting four women.

524
00:30:20,051 --> 00:30:23,357
The now 67-year-old, whose legal
name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt,

525
00:30:23,381 --> 00:30:25,746
is charged with forcibly
raping three women and

526
00:30:25,770 --> 00:30:28,027
sexually assaulting another.

527
00:30:28,051 --> 00:30:29,626
He's pleading not guilty.

528
00:30:29,650 --> 00:30:31,931
We'll bring you
the latest as it happens.

529
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,377
So, when we were in court that day,

530
00:30:37,401 --> 00:30:39,927
Jeremy more or less looked
like he was in space.

531
00:30:39,951 --> 00:30:42,537
He was a little glassy-eyed.

532
00:30:42,561 --> 00:30:44,457
You have the right to
a speedy arraignment.

533
00:30:44,481 --> 00:30:46,816
Initially, his bail was
set at $6.6 million.

534
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,177
Your attorney is requesting
that your arraignment...

535
00:30:49,201 --> 00:30:52,337
He's absolutely innocent
of the charges.

536
00:30:52,361 --> 00:30:54,617
It's not a close call.

537
00:30:54,641 --> 00:30:57,766
Everyone knows Ron Jeremy is.

538
00:30:57,790 --> 00:31:01,896
He's been with over 4,000 women.

539
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,766
The initial part of his argument was
when Jeremy meets women in bars,

540
00:31:05,790 --> 00:31:08,927
or women meet Jeremy in bars,
they expect or almost want,

541
00:31:08,951 --> 00:31:10,737
to be groped, to be grabbed.

542
00:31:10,761 --> 00:31:13,417
It's Ron Jeremy.
He's going to do these things.

543
00:31:13,441 --> 00:31:15,720
And I'm not really sure how
that'll go in court.

544
00:31:17,761 --> 00:31:21,566
When I heard Ron got arrested.

545
00:31:21,590 --> 00:31:23,537
I was like, "Fuck," like, "Fuck!"

546
00:31:23,561 --> 00:31:27,007
When the MeToo movement
came out is when...

547
00:31:27,031 --> 00:31:29,057
All you had to say was, "Me, too".

548
00:31:29,081 --> 00:31:32,927
And it didn't matter
if your story made sense.

549
00:31:32,951 --> 00:31:35,257
It was, "Me, too".

550
00:31:35,281 --> 00:31:38,537
This case makes no sense
because it's political,

551
00:31:38,561 --> 00:31:42,097
because the DA needs to throw the
book at somebody like Ron Jeremy.

552
00:31:42,121 --> 00:31:45,417
I've interviewed
people who describe being

553
00:31:45,441 --> 00:31:46,800
violently attacked by Ron.

554
00:31:48,311 --> 00:31:50,057
I've never met those women.

555
00:31:50,081 --> 00:31:55,696
Whether Ron did the most horrific
things or the most loving things,

556
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,566
like, it's light and dark,
like, it's yin and yang, like...

557
00:31:59,590 --> 00:32:02,417
But can you separate...?
Let me fucking finish talking.

558
00:32:02,441 --> 00:32:06,761
Like, my love is not contingent
on what he did or didn't do.

559
00:32:10,441 --> 00:32:14,417
Ron has a lot of people
that are on his side.

560
00:32:14,441 --> 00:32:18,001
I have had a lot of
hate mail from Ron's fans.

561
00:32:19,361 --> 00:32:22,137
There's, like, they'll say,
"You knew he was a porn star.

562
00:32:22,161 --> 00:32:24,497
"Why are you hanging out with him?"

563
00:32:24,521 --> 00:32:28,417
"You went to strip clubs with Ron.
What do you expect?"

564
00:32:28,441 --> 00:32:31,257
You know, I get a lot of
hate mail, but you know what?

565
00:32:31,281 --> 00:32:32,497
I don't care.

566
00:32:32,521 --> 00:32:34,776
It doesn't bother me any more.

567
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,497
But it's sad.

568
00:32:36,521 --> 00:32:39,207
Hopefully these people will
wake up and realise

569
00:32:39,231 --> 00:32:41,481
they're behind a serial rapist.

570
00:32:44,881 --> 00:32:47,207
When he was arrested,
dozens and dozens of women

571
00:32:47,231 --> 00:32:49,566
came forward to the
LA County Sheriff's Department.

572
00:32:49,590 --> 00:32:51,927
The floodgates, for lack of
a better term, do open.

573
00:32:51,951 --> 00:32:55,137
Frankly, for a lot of these women,
it probably wasn't safe to come

574
00:32:55,161 --> 00:32:57,391
forward until he was put in custody.

575
00:32:59,951 --> 00:33:03,257
Lianne Young didn't choose to
come forward until July or

576
00:33:03,281 --> 00:33:04,920
August of 2020, I believe.

577
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:11,177
Ron has taken from me
two decades of my life.

578
00:33:11,201 --> 00:33:14,337
Two decades ago, I was untouched
cracked Hollywood, you know?

579
00:33:14,361 --> 00:33:17,217
I mean, I'd done everything
I'd set out my dreams to do.

580
00:33:17,241 --> 00:33:19,727
And it was taken away from me
in five seconds.

581
00:33:19,751 --> 00:33:21,257
I was raped.

582
00:33:21,281 --> 00:33:23,857
I have to relive it
every single day.

583
00:33:23,881 --> 00:33:26,566
You know, I got diagnosed
with PTSD after it.

584
00:33:26,590 --> 00:33:29,857
But for me, the most devastating
part of it is many people

585
00:33:29,881 --> 00:33:33,521
hid the fact they knew who he was —
And what he was.

586
00:33:36,001 --> 00:33:37,576
Breaking news this hour...

587
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,896
Adult film star Ron Jeremy
has been hit with yet

588
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,311
more assault charges.

589
00:33:43,311 --> 00:33:45,751
He faces 300 years in prison.

590
00:33:51,391 --> 00:33:53,896
This case has ballooned
from the initial day

591
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,187
the complaint was filed.

592
00:33:55,211 --> 00:33:58,187
Jeremy is facing 34 counts
of various forms of sexual assault

593
00:33:58,211 --> 00:33:59,977
levied by 23 different women.

594
00:34:00,001 --> 00:34:02,937
The accusations spanned
the better part of two decades.

595
00:34:02,961 --> 00:34:05,617
It's more charges than
Harvey Weinstein faced.

596
00:34:05,641 --> 00:34:09,576
Jeremy is put right up there
against Weinstein, Bill Cosby,

597
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,831
as this celebrity sexual predator.

598
00:34:24,001 --> 00:34:26,547
For the last year, I've been going
through this whole terminal

599
00:34:26,571 --> 00:34:28,857
of what I'm going to face in court,

600
00:34:28,881 --> 00:34:31,497
because it's going to court on
a forcible rape charge.

601
00:34:31,521 --> 00:34:33,826
He is going to use the defense,

602
00:34:33,850 --> 00:34:36,297
"Oh, well, you know,
girls chuck themselves at me."

603
00:34:36,321 --> 00:34:38,646
I never chucked myself at him.

604
00:34:38,670 --> 00:34:40,937
I never asked for his autograph.

605
00:34:40,961 --> 00:34:42,670
I never let him touch me.

606
00:34:51,881 --> 00:34:53,696
Good morning.

607
00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:58,576
Today, I give evidence for
the first time against Ron Jeremy.

608
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,391
Since I've been in LA,
I have not slept at all.

609
00:35:03,281 --> 00:35:06,391
I'm a nervous wreck,
and I'm exhausted.

610
00:35:08,281 --> 00:35:13,217
But it's time to go to court...

611
00:35:13,241 --> 00:35:16,417
and get Ron Jeremy charged

612
00:35:16,441 --> 00:35:18,680
with how he raped me 20 years ago.

613
00:35:24,241 --> 00:35:29,001
So, you won't believe
this is 7.00 in the morning.

614
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,930
Hey, we should have parking
for today?

615
00:35:36,361 --> 00:35:39,337
I don't know how I'm going
to be in court.

616
00:35:39,361 --> 00:35:42,167
That cringe that sits
in the bottom of my stomach,

617
00:35:42,191 --> 00:35:44,497
it's almost like a phobia.

618
00:35:44,521 --> 00:35:48,377
And I've gotta face that phobia,
whether I like it or not.

619
00:35:48,401 --> 00:35:51,521
I want it over with,
because then I can move on.

620
00:35:54,930 --> 00:35:58,057
I was a witness in the grand jury

621
00:35:58,081 --> 00:36:03,297
to give truth and story to
what happened to Lianne

622
00:36:03,321 --> 00:36:05,337
when she was raped.

623
00:36:05,361 --> 00:36:08,417
Because I was there that night.

624
00:36:08,441 --> 00:36:12,807
Having the appearance that day at
the grand jury made it so real.

625
00:36:12,831 --> 00:36:18,521
It made it so clear about
how serious the charges were.

626
00:36:27,041 --> 00:36:29,807
"Forcible oral copulation."

627
00:36:29,831 --> 00:36:33,017
"Sexual penetration by
a foreign object."

628
00:36:33,041 --> 00:36:36,017
"Sodomy by use of force."

629
00:36:36,041 --> 00:36:38,297
"Forcible rape."

630
00:36:38,321 --> 00:36:39,887
"Forcible rape."

631
00:36:39,911 --> 00:36:41,470
"Forcible rape."

632
00:36:46,371 --> 00:36:51,961
I've just got back to my
hotel room, from the courthouse.

633
00:36:54,521 --> 00:36:59,456
I walked out of the courtroom,
and I absolutely broke down.

634
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,807
I didn't realise how tough
this was going to be.

635
00:37:01,831 --> 00:37:03,857
And this is only the first stage.

636
00:37:03,881 --> 00:37:10,347
I don't think most people understood
the level of predatory behaviour

637
00:37:10,371 --> 00:37:12,081
that he was engaging in.

638
00:37:19,091 --> 00:37:23,521
It's so violent,
and it's so horrific.

639
00:37:25,521 --> 00:37:30,017
The allegations against Jeremy
do get more violent over time.

640
00:37:30,041 --> 00:37:33,017
The way it's describing the court
documents would paint Jeremy as

641
00:37:33,041 --> 00:37:35,347
getting older, getting more
physically diminished,

642
00:37:35,371 --> 00:37:38,706
and growing more aggressive.

643
00:37:38,730 --> 00:37:41,987
The allegations that predate
at least 2010,

644
00:37:42,011 --> 00:37:43,526
they're more in public.

645
00:37:43,550 --> 00:37:45,427
Whereas when you get into the 2010s,

646
00:37:45,451 --> 00:37:49,776
he's been accused of forcing himself
on isolated women in bathrooms,

647
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,041
and is definitely more predatory.

648
00:37:55,631 --> 00:37:58,247
Ron's hunting ground was the
Sunset Strip, was the row of bars

649
00:37:58,271 --> 00:37:59,817
in West Hollywood.

650
00:37:59,841 --> 00:38:02,347
There's incidents you see
where the victim is isolated,

651
00:38:02,371 --> 00:38:03,967
where the victim is inebriated,

652
00:38:03,991 --> 00:38:05,841
where the victim is lured somewhere.

653
00:38:19,881 --> 00:38:22,536
There's one case where
a woman and Jeremy meet...

654
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,097
He hands her a drink,
and she immediately becomes,

655
00:38:25,121 --> 00:38:27,456
by her own description,
violently ill.

656
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:32,706
He offers to take her back to
his apartment, basically for help.

657
00:38:32,730 --> 00:38:35,067
She goes back to his apartment,

658
00:38:35,091 --> 00:38:37,480
continues to be sick,
continues to vomit.

659
00:38:38,921 --> 00:38:41,217
In between puking,

660
00:38:41,241 --> 00:38:44,521
she alleges that he tried to
slide his fingers into her vagina.

661
00:38:47,451 --> 00:38:49,737
She's saying no —
But again, she's, you know,

662
00:38:49,761 --> 00:38:51,786
she's been vomiting profusely.

663
00:38:51,810 --> 00:38:54,521
She is in a very weakened state
and can't fight back.

664
00:39:26,921 --> 00:39:31,257
20 years ago, Ron wasn't being
accused of drugging women...

665
00:39:31,281 --> 00:39:32,687
Where now, he is.

666
00:39:32,711 --> 00:39:35,937
So, you can easily see
that the allegations changed,

667
00:39:35,961 --> 00:39:37,641
and clearly so did the behaviour.

668
00:39:40,171 --> 00:39:42,456
I feel like I have to believe

669
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,297
that people knew that
he was as violent as he was,

670
00:39:45,321 --> 00:39:47,600
because there are so many
accounts of it.

671
00:40:09,561 --> 00:40:13,207
Ron Jeremy was always considered
a star in our business because

672
00:40:13,231 --> 00:40:16,256
he was genuinely liked by people.

673
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,567
And can asshole over here get it up?

674
00:40:18,591 --> 00:40:20,407
Asshole?!

675
00:40:20,431 --> 00:40:22,256
You better believe I can get it up.

676
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,697
Like a fucking volcano, I can!

677
00:40:24,721 --> 00:40:26,977
Well, why don't you show me?

678
00:40:27,001 --> 00:40:29,367
I won't tell!

679
00:40:29,391 --> 00:40:33,817
When I see Ron, and he plays, like,
a Deliverance, kind of, character

680
00:40:33,841 --> 00:40:36,407
in the woods, he was like a joke.

681
00:40:36,431 --> 00:40:38,697
He was, like, the funny goofball.

682
00:40:38,721 --> 00:40:40,207
That's who he was.

683
00:40:40,231 --> 00:40:43,926
I feel the hole of Mother Earth
swelling inside of me!

684
00:40:43,950 --> 00:40:45,447
I think I'm gon' cum!

685
00:40:45,471 --> 00:40:46,697
I gon' cum!

686
00:40:46,721 --> 00:40:48,537
Ah! I just came.

687
00:40:48,561 --> 00:40:51,391
I personally loved
having him on sets.

688
00:41:03,921 --> 00:41:08,361
Ron represented
a good time in my life.

689
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:15,647
But when it all came out,
I wasn't shocked.

690
00:41:15,671 --> 00:41:19,111
There was a sadness for this
innocent time that I knew Ron.

691
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,111
Sadness for the victims.

692
00:41:23,441 --> 00:41:26,367
And I remember one night, I cried.

693
00:41:26,391 --> 00:41:30,777
And it wasn't just for
the loss of my friendship,

694
00:41:30,801 --> 00:41:33,087
because I knew I'd probably
never see him again.

695
00:41:33,111 --> 00:41:34,537
I wasn't going to go down there.

696
00:41:34,561 --> 00:41:36,567
"Oh, hi, Ron, I'm so sad."

697
00:41:36,591 --> 00:41:38,417
I think you did it, fuckface.

698
00:41:38,441 --> 00:41:42,806
There's no way that these girls
came together and wanted to get you.

699
00:41:42,830 --> 00:41:45,950
I think you did it,
you sick motherfucker.

700
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,537
There have been a number of
pretty graphic descriptions

701
00:41:53,561 --> 00:41:56,136
of sexual assault,
as you might imagine, in this case.

702
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,136
One of the most alarming
allegations was that Jeremy

703
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,487
molested a minor at a rave.

704
00:42:01,511 --> 00:42:03,256
There was a 15-year-old girl there.

705
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,527
She was extremely inebriated.

706
00:42:05,551 --> 00:42:07,806
He led her somewhere, and is accused

707
00:42:07,830 --> 00:42:09,806
of picking her up by the waist

708
00:42:09,830 --> 00:42:12,391
and digitally penetrating her
at that point.

709
00:42:20,830 --> 00:42:23,417
The event was a rave.

710
00:42:23,441 --> 00:42:25,727
It was called
Almost Better Than Sex.

711
00:42:25,751 --> 00:42:28,497
I went to the event. I drove Ron.

712
00:42:28,521 --> 00:42:30,801
It was just the
two of us in the car.

713
00:42:31,830 --> 00:42:33,497
And it was fun, it was a fun event.

714
00:42:33,521 --> 00:42:35,857
Just rave music —
Whatever that was back then.

715
00:42:35,881 --> 00:42:37,001
I was never a big raver.

716
00:42:38,591 --> 00:42:40,926
Ron was paid to be there,
and he was the emcee.

717
00:42:40,950 --> 00:42:44,080
And they had a dance contest, and
the winner got a nice cash prize.

718
00:42:45,881 --> 00:42:47,806
The witness, Jane Doe 5,

719
00:42:47,830 --> 00:42:51,727
says she was 15 years old at
the time of the attack.

720
00:42:51,751 --> 00:42:55,671
Jeremy's assistant offered
her his vodka cranberry cocktail.

721
00:43:06,671 --> 00:43:09,217
So, that would have you.
That's absolutely me.

722
00:43:09,241 --> 00:43:11,697
I'm the only one who's ever
been Ron's assistant.

723
00:43:11,721 --> 00:43:14,567
At that rave, I certainly
didn't give anyone alcohol.

724
00:43:14,591 --> 00:43:18,417
And then, she says that Ron
inserted a finger into her vagina.

725
00:43:18,441 --> 00:43:21,857
I, you know, whenever I
went out with Ron,

726
00:43:21,881 --> 00:43:25,447
I was never around him
100% of the time.

727
00:43:25,471 --> 00:43:26,857
Does it worry you, though,

728
00:43:26,881 --> 00:43:29,217
that people might think
that you saw stuff?

729
00:43:29,241 --> 00:43:31,527
If you were with him 5-6 nights
a week, surely you must know

730
00:43:31,551 --> 00:43:33,006
where the bodies are buried.

731
00:43:33,030 --> 00:43:36,367
No, I don't lose any sleep
over my relationship with Ron.

732
00:43:36,391 --> 00:43:39,056
If I was culpable in any way,
I'd have been arrested, too.

733
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,727
I'm not — and I never will be,
because I had nothing to do with

734
00:43:42,751 --> 00:43:46,167
the highly inappropriate things
that he's accused of.

735
00:43:46,191 --> 00:43:48,936
I mean, I'm so conflicted,
because Ron was so close to me...

736
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:49,977
And still is.

737
00:43:50,001 --> 00:43:52,006
But I have a lot of compassion

738
00:43:52,030 --> 00:43:55,111
and understanding for the women
that have accused Ron.

739
00:44:07,030 --> 00:44:10,087
The man that I have been
friends with this whole time

740
00:44:10,111 --> 00:44:13,697
has been an absolute monster
in disguise.

741
00:44:13,721 --> 00:44:16,647
You wouldn't think that
this is the kind of stuff

742
00:44:16,671 --> 00:44:19,577
that he's really doing when
no—one's looking...

743
00:44:19,601 --> 00:44:22,217
But he's doing it when
we are looking,

744
00:44:22,241 --> 00:44:24,521
and everyone's just
looking the other way.

745
00:44:28,030 --> 00:44:32,417
I think Ron was a sex addict
at the top of the scale.

746
00:44:32,441 --> 00:44:39,087
It's a guy who's lost complete
perception of morality and reality.

747
00:44:39,111 --> 00:44:43,111
I mean, literally a guy like that
could assault 3-4 women in a night.

748
00:44:44,721 --> 00:44:47,297
He had a lot of women
that were thrown at him.

749
00:44:47,321 --> 00:44:51,857
So, imagine those women
at his feet, at his mercy.

750
00:44:51,881 --> 00:44:54,857
I think there's hundreds...

751
00:44:54,881 --> 00:44:56,391
of victims out there.

752
00:45:01,441 --> 00:45:06,607
People don't want to hear
bad stories about their heroes.

753
00:45:06,631 --> 00:45:11,016
People don't want to think that
a man that they've watched

754
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,447
have sex with thousands of women,

755
00:45:13,471 --> 00:45:16,167
and they pleasured
themselves to it...

756
00:45:16,191 --> 00:45:20,217
They don't want to hear that
that person's a predator.

757
00:45:20,241 --> 00:45:24,527
My friend, 100%, became a predator.

758
00:45:24,551 --> 00:45:26,377
Right in front of me!

759
00:45:26,401 --> 00:45:29,321
Right in front of my eyes.

760
00:45:31,351 --> 00:45:35,377
Ron had the ability to
persuade people,

761
00:45:35,401 --> 00:45:39,327
to fool people,
to think he was a nice guy.

762
00:45:39,351 --> 00:45:43,417
So, for me, I need closure.

763
00:45:43,441 --> 00:45:46,377
Ron is in prison right now,
and I hope he stays there

764
00:45:46,401 --> 00:45:47,401
till the day he dies.

765
00:45:49,401 --> 00:45:53,777
Ron has had free rent
in my head for 20 years.

766
00:45:53,801 --> 00:45:56,777
I refuse to allow him to
let me be a prisoner

767
00:45:56,801 --> 00:45:58,321
of his actions any longer.

768
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,686
He needs to pay for what
he did to these women,

769
00:46:02,710 --> 00:46:05,297
and for what he did to me.

770
00:46:05,321 --> 00:46:07,737
I'm going to pray for him
for the rest of his life,

771
00:46:07,761 --> 00:46:11,297
and hopefully,
he asks for forgiveness.

772
00:46:11,321 --> 00:46:12,777
I'll pray for him.

773
00:46:12,801 --> 00:46:15,521
But that's all I want for him.
That's all I'll do for Ron.