Former porn star Ron Jeremy is set to be released from jail and sent to a “private residence” less than a year after he was declared incompetent to stand trial on more than 30 counts of sexual assault due to his poor health.
A judge granted a request Friday to release Jeremy to a private residence where he will receive “round the clock medical care” after it was determined that “no medical facility will take him” due to his dementia, according to an email obtained by The Times.
Jeremy, who is suffering from dementia and was placed under a conservator earlier this year, has been in Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles for months, waiting to be sent to a state medical facility.
But the 70-year-old’s “medical condition has deteriorated to the point that he is essentially bedridden,” according to an email from Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Paul Thompson, sent to victims in Jeremy’s criminal case.
In objecting to the motion to release Jeremy, Thompson had cited public safety concerns, but was ultimately overruled, the email added.
“I feel very badly that this is where we are,
