from the yearly Adult Entertainment Expo and Awards, key industry events.) In 2017, one of Jeremy’s accusers, former performer Jennifer Steele, toldEj Dickson, “He hides behind other women’s scarlet letters, is what he does,” she said. “[He] know[s] if someone’s a porn star and they say they’ve been raped, people aren’t gonna take it seriously.” Just this week, he wasAdvertisement
Redd is not just describing her own experience, but also a known reaction that often happens during a sexual assault. “When someone is experiencing sexual assault or a violation, one of the most common reactions is a freeze response,” explained Laura Palumbo, To be perfectly honest, I was afraid,” she said. “I was afraid because Rico had mentioned in the past to me that, you know, if people fuck with his money he’s not going to have it. So if I were to call that scene in that moment he wouldn’t get paid, I wouldn’t get paid, and I didn’t know what could happen to me. I was in a warehouse, it was nighttime, there were multiple men on set, it was just me, I didn’t have a car.She added, “I just said to myself, ‘Let’s just get this over with.
The issue is not that performers and directors should be “clairvoyant,” as Ferrara put it, but rather that there has been a systemic failure to broadly adopt a production approach