LOS ANGELES—The West Hollywood-based Rainbow Bar & Grill has reached confidential legal settlements with multiple women who filed negligence complaints against the Sunset Strip venue after they alleged that they were sexually assaulted there by former adult actor Ron Jeremy.
Settlement agreements were reached in a local court on Tuesday.
“This is pretty much as close to closure as we can get for our victims,” explained attorney Aaron Osten, who represents two of the women, in a statement to Rolling Stone.
Osten said that the court will keep settlement amounts and key details confidential and sealed.
Jeremy, 72, was charged in 2021 with 34 criminal counts of sexual assault committed against 21 victims aged 15 to 51. Attacks date back to 1996. As AVN previously reported, Jeremy was ruled incompetent to stand trial in 2023 due to a cognitive decline that is "incurable."
He was transferred from a prison to a private residence to receive around-the-clock treatment. His charges were also dropped under California Penal Code Section 1385, which permits a court to dismiss any criminal charges "in furtherance of justice," per AVN's reporting.
The charges dismissed include felony counts of forcible rape, sexual penetration with force, sexual battery, lewd acts upon a child, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration of an unconscious victim with a foreign object.
According to the New York Daily News, Jeremy is still targeted in a civil lawsuit brought by a victim who alleges being drugged at the Rainbow Bar and led away to an apartment where she was assaulted.
