A woman who claims porn star Ron Jeremy sexually assaulted her inside The Rainbow Bar & Grill four years ago sued the West Hollywood establishment for negligence Tuesday, claiming it allowed the “dangerous, highly sexualized and hostile environment” where the alleged attack took place.
The new lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, follows three months after two other Jeremy accusers filed a similar complaint against the same Sunset Strip venue and its parent company, Rockin’ Horse, Inc.
The latest Jane Doe claims her assault took place on April 14, 2019 — a year before Jeremy was first charged with raping four women. By August 2021, he was indicted on 34 counts of sexual assault involving 21 victims, including minors. The stunning list of alleged attacks stretched as far back as 1996 and involved women and girls ranging in age from 15 to 51. Several of the purported assaults took place at the Rainbow Bar, according to the grand jury transcript obtained by Rolling Stone.
Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, pleaded not guilty but was found “not competent” to stand trial last January. He remains in a state hospital.
According to the new complaint, Hyatt was at the Rainbow Bar on April 14, 2019 when he struck up a conversation with the new Jane Doe accuser and asked her to follow him outside to continue talking.
Instead of leading her to an exit, Hyatt allegedly blocked Doe in a corner of the restaurant and “demanded” she allow him to autograph her breast. Doe refused, and that’s when Hyatt reached into her shirt and yanked her breast “completely from her bra, exposing her breast,” the lawsuit alleges.
The filing claims Hyatt “then used a sharpie to write his name on her breast while holding and squeezing Jane Doe’s breast with his hand.”
“Ron Jeremy then proceeded to aggressively twist Jane Doe’s nipple, without her consent and despite her objections,” it alleges.
Doe claims a Rainbow Bar employee made eye contact with her during the assault but “simply looked away,” which “allowed” the assault “to continue.”
The lawsuit alleges Rainbow Bar management knew or should have known about Hyatt’s predatory behavior when it gave him “permission” to use various locations on the property, including the staff restroom.
“(Defendants) knowingly allowed a known sexual predator into their bar time and time again and allowed him a dungeon, the employee’s restroom, for committing heinous sexual acts,” the filing says.
Rolling Stone previously spoke to Emily J. Sullivan, a former employee at Rainbow Bar who alleged Jeremy was known for “grop[ing] patrons and waitresses.”
“He’d do this weird thing where he’d come up behind us and try to kiss our neck and our ears and grab our butts and call it the Ron Jeremy Tickle,” Sullivan said.
Two lawyers representing Rainbow Bar in the civil case filed last August did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment on the latest lawsuit Tuesday.
They answered the August complaint by stating Rainbow Bar “did not know and could not have reasonably foreseen that Ron Jeremey and/or another person would commit the alleged criminal and/or intentional acts alleged in the complaint.”
“(The) alleged acts, if any, were done without this answering defendant’s knowledge and consent and ratification,” the answer read.
The Tuesday lawsuit filed by attorney Aaron Osten on behalf of the new Jane Doe is seeking damages for past and present pain and suffering, medical expenses, past and future loss of earnings and the cost of the suit.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
