Ron Jeremy denies the accusation publicly brought forth last night by Ginger Lynn on KSEXradio's "The Ginger Lynn Show" that Jeremy had raped her two decades ago in a Hawaiian bungalow, re-igniting a dispute between the two porn icons over the consensual nature of the sex that took place then.
Jeremy denies the accusation and expresses dismay that a topic he thought had been dropped has revived itself in so public a manner.
“That’s she’s been saying this is really bizarre,” Jeremy told AVN.com “Somehow her memory must be fucked. I don’t know why she’s doing this.”
The alleged rape took place during the shooting of A Little Bit of Hanky Panky in Hawaii during December 1983.
Lynn and Jerry Butler, also in the Hanky Panky, were on the beach having sex on their own time. Jeremy came up and asked to join in. According to Jeremy, he took part in a threesome.
Butler did write about a threeway involving himself, Lynn and Jeremy in his book Raw Talent. Lynn suggests that Butler is covering for Jeremy – Jeremy claims that’s ridiculous.
“He [Butler] insults me in the book," Jeremy said. "He has no reason to try to defend me. He says ‘oh, that lecher. It was the three of us on the beach.’ She’s claiming we never did it.”
After the sex on the beach was finished, be it a threeway or only with Butler, Lynn then went to her bungalow. So did Jeremy.
Lynn claims that Jeremy broke into her bungalow and then forcibly had sex with her, even after she had told him no. Jeremy says that he let himself in, but denies that the sex that took place was not consensual.
“After having sex with someone on the beach, why would you not want to have sex with them. I went up to the room with her to take a shower and then we messed around. No goodbye, no get lost…. We were very good friends, how can you rape a friend?”
The next day Lynn and Jeremy performed in a scene together. Two weeks later they did so again in a movie shot in New York.
Lynn didn’t say anything about the incident at first. However, as time went on she became vocal about it. After her return to the adult industry, Jeremy and Lynn had a meeting mediated by Veronica Hart, a mutual friend.
“She was sitting in front of [Veronica Hart] – ‘We never had a threesome on the beach’ Maybe you were high – we did,” said Jeremy, who suggested that her poor memory of that incident, which Butler corroborates, discredits her memory of what happened in the bungalow.
Hart, who seems to be the only common denominator, refuses to take sides.
“Ginger has always felt that Jeremy raped her. That’s been her story from the beginning, that’s how she remembers it,” Hart said. “She came home, he was at her place, he split a screen to come in. Ron does not remember it as a rape. They both believe their own story. Ron in his mind does not believe he raped her and she in her heart knows that he did. And never will the two meet.”
Hart does say that she has never heard any similar allegations from other women in the adult community.
After the attempted mediation, Lynn and Jeremy agreed to disagree about their past – until now
According to Lynn, the reason she has gone public with the accusation is that she feels that Jeremy is a serial sexual offender. She claims to know many women who have been allegedly raped by Jeremy, at least a dozen of whom have written her letters detailing their alleged rape. Most recently she ran into an adult retailer in St. Louis, Missouri, that claimed to have been raped by Jeremy when he did an in-store.
“People are very vocal in this business. If I had problems with girls in the past, don’t you think it would have been out there?” Jeremy asked.
Jeremy had no recollection of that the alleged St. Louis event and was unsure about who Lynn was referring to.
Jeremy is confused as to why Lynn renewed her accusations. “I hosted a show with her a year ago in Orange County, we got along great. I’ve hung out with her since then. She likes my girlfriend Natalie,” said Jeremy.
The Hedgehog even appeared on Ginger Lynn’s E! True Hollywood Stories special last year. “I said nice things,” he said.
Jeremy claims to be very upset that Lynn has taken her accusations to the public, suggesting that if this story ends up in mainstream media, Lynn may be facing charges of libel.
“A guy looks bad whether he’s innocent or not and that’s just not fair,” Jeremy said.
An update based on an interview with Ginger Lynn is forthcoming.....
