THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N C3Ron Jeremy Is Charged
With Rapes and Assault
The pornographic film actor Ron
Jeremy has been charged with
raping three women and sexu-
ally assaulting a fourth, the Los
Angeles County district attor-
ney’s office said on Tuesday.
According to the criminal
complaint, the attacks date back
to as far as 2014, with the most
recent having occurred in July
- Three of the incidents
detailed in the charges hap-
pened at the same bar in West
Hollywood, the district attor-
ney’s office said in a news re-
lease.
Allegations of sexual assault
against Jeremy, above, one of
the few in the pornographic film
industry whose name is familiar
in the mainstream, first surfaced
in the early days of the #MeToo
movement, when he was the
subject of a 2017 Rolling Stone
article in which more than a
dozen women came forward
with accusations. Jeremy denied
all of them to the magazine,
saying, “I have never raped
anyone.”
Golden Artists Entertainment,
the management company that
represented Jeremy, stuck with
him after the 2017 report, believ-
ing that he had shown them
proof of his innocence. But on
Tuesday, Dante Rusciolelli, the
owner of Golden Artists Enter-
tainment, announced that the
company was dropping Jeremy
as a client. Jeremy’s lawyer did
not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
According to the complaint,
Jeremy, 67, is accused of raping
a 25-year-old woman at a West
Hollywood home in 2014.
He is also accused of two
attacks that prosecutors said
took place in 2017 at the same
bar in West Hollywood. Jeremy
is charged with forcible rape
and sexual battery by restraint
in one case and with sexual
penetration by use of force and
sexual penetration by intoxicat-
ing substance in the second.
A fourth woman said that
Jeremy raped her at the same
bar last year, the news release
said.
The district attorney’s office
said that it had decided against
prosecuting an additional case
related to an incident in 2016
because of insufficient evidence.
Jeremy is scheduled to be
arraigned on Friday, and pros-
ecutors recommended setting
bail at $6.6 million. If convicted,
he could face a maximum sen-
tence of 90 years to life in pris-
on, the district attorney’s office
said.
JULIA JACOBSJimmy Kimmel Sorry
For Blackface Sketches
After weeks of criticism, the
ABC late-night host Jimmy
Kimmel has addressed his past
use of blackface in comedy
sketches, saying on Tuesday
that he apologized “to those who
were genuinely hurt or offended
by the makeup I wore or the
words I spoke.”
Kimmel, below right, the host
of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” used
blackface to play celebrities like
Karl Malone and Oprah Winfrey
on “The Man Show,” a Comedy
Central series he starred in from
1999 to 2003.
Kimmel said in a statement
that his impersonation of Ma-
lone had started when he was a
radio host for KROQ in Los
Angeles in the mid-1990s. When
he brought that impersonation
to TV, Kimmel said: “We hired
makeup artists to make me look
as much like Karl Malone as
possible. I never considered that
this might be seen as anything
other than an imitation of a
fellow human being, one that
had no more to do with Karl’s
skin color than it did his bulging
muscles and bald head.”
Kimmel, who did not use the
word “blackface” in his state-
ment, said that as he looked
back on his previous comedy
sketches, many of them had
become “embarrassing, and it is
frustrating that these thought-
less moments have become a
weapon used by some to dimin-
ish my criticisms of social and
other injustices.”
He added in the statement: “I
believe that I have evolved and
matured over the last 20-plus
years, and I hope that is evidentto anyone who watches my show.
I know that this will not be the
last I hear of this and that it will
be used again to try to quiet me.”
Kimmel made his remarks
after several weeks of sustained
criticism on social media that he
and other entertainers have
faced for using blackface.
On June 1, Jimmy Fallon, the
host of “The Tonight Show” on
NBC, apologized on his program
for a “Saturday Night Live”
sketch from 2000 in which he had
appeared in blackface to imper-
sonate Chris Rock.
Tina Fey, the creator of the
NBC comedy “30 Rock,” said that
she and her co-showrunner,
Robert Carlock, had asked for
several episodes of that show to
be pulled from streaming serv-
ices because they depict charac-
ters in blackface. Fey said in a
statement: “As we strive to do
the work and do better in re-
gards to race in America, we
believe that these episodes fea-
turing actors in race-changing
makeup are best taken out of
circulation. I understand now
that ‘intent’ is not a free pass for
white people to use these im-
ages.”
Episodes of other comedy
shows like “Little Britain” and
“The Mighty Boosh” have also
been pulled from streaming
services amid concerns about
blackface.
Kimmel, who is slated to host
the Emmy Awards in September,
announced last week that he
would be taking a vacation from
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” and would
have guest hosts fill in for him
throughout the summer. His
statement on Tuesday said that
this vacation had been planned
“for more than a year and in-
cludes the next two summers off
as well,” adding that he would
return to the show in September.
DAVE ITZKOFFArts, Briefly
NEWS FROM THE CULTURAL WORLDPAUL A. HEBERT/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESSEVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESSPennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday
said it agreed to hear part of Bill Cosby’s ap-
peal of his 2018 sexual assault conviction.
In December, a panel of three appellate
judges unanimously rejected his appeal to
the lower Superior Court, upholding his
2018 conviction in the drugging and sexual
assault of Andrea Constand at his home out-
side Philadelphia in 2004.
But in January, his lawyers petitioned the
Pennsylvania State Supreme Court to re-
view that decision, highlighting several is-
sues where they said the panel had erred in
supporting the trial judge’s decision.
The state’s Supreme Court does not nec-
essarily have to take up an appeal, and its
justices typically grant few of them. It re-
jected some of the issues Mr. Cosby’s lawyer
raised, but it said it would review the trial
judge’s decision to allow testimony from
five other accusers — women who, like Ms.
Constand, said Mr. Cosby had drugged and
sexually assaulted them.
The decision means Mr. Cosby’s lawyers
will now have another opportunity to chal-
lenge a verdict that represented one of the
most high-profile convictions of the
#MeToo era.
In particular, it gives them the chance to
fight the decision to include the testimony
from the so-called “prior bad acts” wit-
nesses, which many experts considered to
be one of the most significant moments of
the criminal trial.
In Pennsylvania and many other states,
testimony concerning prior alleged crimes
is allowed if, among other conditions, it
demonstrates a signature pattern of abuse.Such testimony by other accusers played a
role in the Harvey Weinstein case, where
their testimony was sought to demonstrate
a pattern of predatory behavior by Mr.
Weinstein. Mr. Cosby’s lawyers, however,
argue that he was denied a fair trial because
the allegations by the other women were
too remote in time and too dissimilar to the
case for which he was being tried.
The court will review whether the jury
should have heard testimony about Mr. Cos-
by’s use of quaaludes as part of his efforts to
have sex with other women, including his
own testimony in a separate civil case. And
it said it would also review the judge’s deci-
sion to allow the trial to go ahead even after
a former district attorney had given what
the district attorney said was a binding as-
surance that Mr. Cosby would not be
charged in the case. The Superior Court
panel said that a district attorney did not
have the authority to make such a promise.
Mr. Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-
year sentence at SCI Phoenix, a maximum-
security facility outside Philadelphia.
Ms. Constand reacted to the Supreme
Court’s decision, saying it was right that the
five other women were heard.
“While everyone deserves for their cries
and appeals to be heard, even convicted
criminals, if anyone’s cries matter most
right now, it’s the women who have lifted
their voices and selflessly put themselves in
harm’s way, such as the prior bad act wit-
nesses in my case,” she said in an emailed
statement.
In a separate statement, Mr. Cosby’s
spokesman said, “We’re extremely thankful
to the State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
for agreeing to review Mr. Cosby’s appeal.”
The Montgomery County District Attor-
ney’s office said, “We look forward to brief-
ing and arguing these issues and remain
confident in the Trial Court and Superior
Court’s previous decisions.”Bill Cosby, who was found guilty in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESSPennsylvania High Court
To Hear Cosby Appeal
Arguments on whether the
testimony of five women
should have been allowed.
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