39 Facts About Ron Jeremy

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt was born on March 12,1953 and is an American former pornographic actor, and actor.

Jeremy has made a number of non-pornographic media appearances, and director Scott J Gill filmed a documentary about him and his legacy, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy, released in 2001.

Ron Jeremy was initially jailed awaiting trial, but in January 2023, a judge found him mentally unfit to stand trial due to "incurable neurocognitive decline"; he was released to a private residence in November 2023.

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt was born in Queens, New York City, to a middle-class Jewish family from Russia and Poland.

Ron Jeremy left the teaching profession to pursue a legitimate acting career on Broadway.

Ron Jeremy said that he learned then what it was like to be broke, making no money as an actor who "starved Off-Broadway".

Ron Jeremy soon found work posing for Playgirl after his then-girlfriend submitted his photo to the magazine.

Ron Jeremy utilized this opportunity as a springboard into the adult film industry, which he viewed as a reliable means of supporting himself.

Ron Jeremy had the nickname "The Hedgehog" bestowed upon him by fellow porn actor William Margold in 1979 after a situation on the set of the porn film Olympic Fever.

Ron Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Appearances in Adult Films"; his entry on the Internet Adult Film Database lists more than 2,000 films in which he has performed, and an additional 285 films which he directed.

Ron Jeremy played the monster "Blisterface" in ABC's children's show Bone Chillers.

Ron Jeremy appeared in the 1999 film The Boondock Saints, played a bartender in 2002's Spun and acted in 2003's Zombiegeddon.

Ron Jeremy was an extra in Ghostbusters, played a male strip-club announcer in Detroit Rock City, and had a cameo in Killing Zoe and in the porn spoof, Orgazmo.

Ron Jeremy was the subject of a feature-length biographical documentary, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy, released in 2001 and widely distributed on DVD by mainstream retailers.

Ron Jeremy was featured in the music video "The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle" by A Day to Remember in 2007 from their CD entitled For Those Who Have Heart.

Ron Jeremy starred in 2008 in the erotic horror film I Am Virgin, which was released in 2010.

Ron Jeremy has a cameo in Crank: High Voltage, playing himself as a protester angry at the low salaries porn stars get.

Ron Jeremy appears as himself in the 2009 release One-Eyed Monster, a horror film parody predicated on the premise that an alien force takes over Jeremy's penis and begins killing people in the woods.

Ron Jeremy appeared in the second season of The Surreal Life, during which he developed a close friendship with Tammy Faye Bakker despite her devout Christianity and disapproval of pornography, and returned to the franchise for the ninth season of The Surreal Life: Fame Games, in which he finished second to Traci Bingham on the season finale, which aired on March 25,2007.

Ron Jeremy appeared in a segment on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show.

Ron Jeremy made a brief cameo on Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, in the episode "YouTube VS Porn", in a short segment where people on the street were shown a video of hardcore pornography, and Ron Jeremy was the only one disgusted by the video.

Ron Jeremy was seen in the Robot Chicken episode, "A Piece of the Action", in which he was voiced by Michael Benyaer.

Ron Jeremy appeared as himself in the 2001 Family Guy episode "Brian Does Hollywood", in which he is a presenter at an adult industry award show in which Brian Griffin is a nominee.

Ron Jeremy has appeared in a part on the Comedy Central show Tosh.

In 2003, Ron Jeremy appeared on The Frank Skinner Show and performed a duet with former Cabinet minister Mo Mowlam.

Ron Jeremy appeared on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, as himself, in Bourdain's "Food Porn" and "Food Porn 2" episodes.

Ron Jeremy introduced Boston ska punk band Big D and the Kids Table at the 2011 and 2013 Vans Warped Tour in Carson, California, and Ventura, California, respectively, and appeared in their new video for the song "One Day".

Ron Jeremy was featured as a playable character in the 2003 video game Celebrity Deathmatch video game.

Ron Jeremy appears in the 2011 video game Postal III as Raul Chomo, the mayor of the fictional town of Catharsis, Arizona.

Ron Jeremy appeared in a series of viral video spoofs for video sharing website Heavy.

In October 2013, Ron Jeremy appeared in Bart Baker's parody of Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball".

Television ads for the rum featuring Jeremy proclaim that it's rum "Ron Style".

On January 29,2013, Ron Jeremy drove himself to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after experiencing severe chest pain.

Ron Jeremy was accused of raping a 25-year-old woman at a home in West Hollywood in May 2014.

Many of the alleged assaults occurred at the Rainbow Bar and Grill where Ron Jeremy was a regular.

Three days after Ron Jeremy was initially charged, prosecutors said they had an additional 25 allegations of misconduct involving Ron Jeremy had been made, 13 of which had occurred in Los Angeles County.

On March 17,2022, Ron Jeremy's trial was suspended pending a mental health examination, after Ron Jeremy was reported to be "incoherent" and unable to recognize his own lawyer, and was transferred to a mental health facility.

On January 17,2023, Ron Jeremy was found by the judge to be mentally unfit to stand trial due to "incurable neurocognitive decline".

Per California law, the Los Angeles district attorney's office stated that Ron Jeremy can be committed for up to two years.