Porn Star's Elaborate Escape from Liability: Rainbow Bar Agrees to Settle, But Has The Real Question Been Answered?
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Imagine if the moon in Capricorn could choose its own social hangouts, would it frequent a legendary bar like the Rainbow Bar & Grill, or would it shimmy up to the counter to avoid the shenanigans of someone like … ahem well-known characters? As Gemini season might suggest, a place of many faces and unpredictable company has it’s perks, but on today’s alignment, caution is the word of the day. This is what I think would go through the mind of la Luna if it wanted to see a place where history could be told through legal settlements, ala the infamous Ron Jeremy.
In a move as sudden as a retrograde, just days after its 53rd birthday bash, the Rainbow Bar & Grill, the long-time West Hollywood rock ‘n’ roll spot, has sidestepped a scandal in high heels by settling a lawsuit over alleged sexual assaults committed by well … let’s just say our resident Vegas act got a bit too V'egas on the Sunset Strip. It appears that even with Ron Jeremy‘s legal health in mind, his legacy still rattles through the venue. According to the stars, which seem to demand settlements as sudden or cryptic as Mercury going backwards, they’ve wrapped it in a bow with a ” counsel indicates that a settlement has been reached.”
The noise around this case might not be surprising; dive bars and infamous patrons create unexpected news. For more on this, and the melodrama of the Sunset Strip scene, you can LEARN MORE here HERE.
UPDATE, 11:19 PM: Just days after celebrating its 53rd anniversary with a 1980s rock ‘n’ roll party, the Rainbow Bar & Grill in West Hollywood has settled a lawsuit over sexual assaults by now enfeebled porn star Ron Jeremy on its premises.
“Counsel indicates that a settlement has been reached,” reads an April 15 minute order from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark H. Epstein’s courtroom. News of the agreement with the multiple Jane Does alleging that Jeremy attacked them in bathrooms and backrooms of the Sunset Strip venue in 2016 was revealed during an early-morning status conference on the nearly two-year-old case.
No specifics were given but a “substantial” amount was paid out to the plaintiffs, I’m told.
A formal dismissal hearing is now set for July 2 in the Santa Monica Courthouse.
Jeremy, who was not a defendant in this matter, was arrested in June 2020 and indicted a couple of years later on 33 rape and sexual assault counts by the L.A. County D.A office, which could have resulted in 300 years behind bars if found guilty. Jeremy’s case never went to trial, however, dueto an acute case of dementia aka “incurable neurocognitive decline.” The now 72-year-old actor was moved to a a state mental health facility in 2023 for what will likely be the rest of his life.
PREVIOUSLY, August 28, 2023: Two women are alleging that veteran porn actor Ron Jeremy sexually assaulted them at the Rainbow Bar & Grill and are suing the Sunset Strip landmark for “negligence in maintaining a safe environment for their female patrons.”
“Defendant Rockin’ Horse, Inc. and Does 1 through 100, inclusive, knowingly allowed a sexual predator into their bar time and time again and allowed him a dungeon, the employee’s restroom, for committing heinous sexual acts against Defendant’s female patrons,” the August 21 complaint filed on behalf of Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 in Los Angeles Superior Court against the owners of the Rainbow bluntly claims (read the lawsuit against the Rainbow Bar & Grill here).
Referencing grand jury testimony that led to Jeremy’s arrest on multiple rape charges in 2020, the recent filing by Los Angeles-based firm Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP and Encino-set Nabati Law PC seeks a variety of unspecified damages for their clients arising out of the alleged March 17, 2017, attacks in the back bathroom of the rock ’n’ roll hangout.
With prudent description, the complaint detailed what allegedly happened six years ago in the back of the Rainbow after Jeremy walked the duo past numerous staffers:
Further laying out their case against Jeremy, the plaintiffs’ lawyers say, “Rainbow Bar employees would facilitate Ron Jeremy drugging women’s drinks. They note: “One woman [referred to as Jane Doe 9 in the grand jury transcript] met Ron Jeremy at Rainbow Bar. Ron Jeremy then told the bartender to ‘get her the Ron Jeremy special.’”
With the heinous acts that the much-accused Jeremy is alleged to have committed in this case alone, you perhaps are wondering why the slovenly adult movie actor isn’t named as a defendant in the matter along with the 1972-founded Rainbow. Well, facing over 300 years in prison if found guilty on 33 rape and sexual assault counts, 70-year-old Jeremy was deemed incompetent to stand trial earlier this year due to “incurable neurocognitive decline.”
Judge Ronald S. Harris pulled the plug on the case, and Jeremy then was moved from downtown LA’s Twin Towers Correctional Facility into a state mental health facility. Unless his condition dramatically changes, Jeremy will remain in said facility for the rest of his days.
Attempts to contact the Rainbow Bar & Grill about the suit were unsuccessful this morning. If and when we hear from the establishment, we will update this post.
If the name of firm Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP seems familiar to some it is because they represented widower Matthew Hutchins in his wrongful death suit against Alec Baldwin and others for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of indie Western Rust on October 21, 2021.
Altough Baldwin is facing a plethora of civil cases over the shooting and possible refiling of criminal charges, the Matthew Hutchins case never went to trial as the parties settled in October 2022. Among other aspects of that deal, the widower Hutchins was made an executive producer on the resurrected Rust, which finished production in Montana this spring, and is working on a documentary about his wife.
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