LOS ANGELES — Ron Jeremy’s sister Susan Billotte has reportedly filed a petition to appoint a conservator for the former adult performer, who was recently declared unfit to stand trial for multiple alleged sexual offenses.
The existence of Billotte’s petition was first reported by gossip news site TMZ, which obtained a copy of it.
According to TMZ, Billotte is asking the judge to appoint attorney Ellen Finkelberg as Jeremy’s conservator, and for her to be given authority to make decisions regarding Jeremy’s finances and health care.
“He has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal case due to a diagnosis with symptoms of Lewy body dementia and has a pending transfer to a state hospital,” the document explains. It urges the judge to appoint a conservator to help with Jeremy’s transfer to a “private secured perimeter facility specializing in treatment of dementia.”
Where Is Ron Jeremy?
The petition says Jeremy is “incarcerated at the Twin Towers-Mens Central Jail” in Los Angeles, but this seems at odds with a statement made a month go by Los Angeles District Attorney spokesperson Greg Risling in early February.
As XBIZ reported, at that time Risling told Reuters that after being found incompetent to stand trial, Jeremy was committed to a state mental hospital where he could be held for up to two years, and that the next hearing on Jeremy's progress was scheduled for May 8.
When XBIZ contacted Risling for clarification today, he only repeated his previous statement without addressing the seeming contradiction between that announcement and the reported petition.
Jeremy has remained in custody since his arrest in June 2020.
After an August 2021 grand jury indictment was returned, Jeremy pled not guilty to 12 counts of forcible rape, seven counts of forcible oral copulation, six counts of sexual battery by restraint, four counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object, two counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious or asleep person and one count each of lewd act upon a child under the age of 14 or 15, sodomy by use of force and assault with intent to commit rape.
In Nov. 2021, XBIZ published a detailed account of the 21 accusations that form the Los Angeles County district attorney's case against Jeremy. It remains the only comprehensive journalistic account of the testimonies given before the grand jury.
For more of XBIZ’s coverage of the Ron Jeremy case, click here.
