LOS ANGELES — The case against Ron Jeremy for multiple sexual assaults and rapes has been continued until Nov. 9.
A progress report hearing had been scheduled for Monday, but Jeremy’s attorney, Stuart Goldfarb, confirmed to XBIZ this afternoon that the case has been postponed until the fall.
The judge presiding over Jeremy’s case ruled on Jan. 17 that the former adult performer and media personality was “not competent” to be tried for the multiple counts of rape and sexual assault alleged against him.
Judge Robert S. Harrison considered two medical reports, by the defense and the prosecution, which agreed that Jeremy suffers from an “incurable neurocognitive decline” and cannot be tried for the alleged sex crimes.
As XBIZ reported, a Los Angeles district attorney spokesperson reported on Feb. 7 that Jeremy had been committed to a state mental hospital after being found incompetent to stand trial.
District attorney’s office spokesperson Greg Risling told Reuters at the time that the next hearing on Jeremy’s progress was scheduled for Monday, May 8 and that he could be held for up to two years.
Jeremy Housed at Patton State Hospital
Goldfarb confirmed to XBIZ today that Jeremy is "still at Patton State Hospital," a forensic psychiatric hospital in San Bernardino.
Previously, conflicting information on this topic had surfaced in different media outlets.
Before Harrison’s ruling, Jeremy had been awaiting trial in Los Angeles, where he had remained in custody since his arrest in June 2020.
However, Jeremy’s sister, Susan Billotte, filed a petition in March to appoint a conservator for the former performer. The existence of Billotte’s petition was first reported by gossip news site TMZ, which obtained a copy of it.
According to TMZ, Billotte asked 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 explained, while urging the judge to appoint a conservator to help with Jeremy’s transfer to a “private secured perimeter facility specializing in treatment of dementia.”
The petition said Jeremy was “incarcerated at the Twin Towers-Men’s Central Jail” in Los Angeles, but this seemed at odds with a statement made by Risling in early February.
When XBIZ contacted Risling for clarification, he only repeated what he told Reuters in February without addressing the seeming contradiction between that announcement and Jeremy’s sister’s petition.
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