Ron Jeremy‘s sister Susan Billotte has requested that his lawyer Ellen Finkelberg be appointed as a conservator for the adult film star.

TMZ first broke the news about the petition to the courts.

The docs state, Ron is “concurrently incarcerated at the Twin Towers-Mens Central Jail. He has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal case due to a diagnosis with symptoms of Lewy body dementia and has a pending transfer to a state hospital.”

According to the docs, there is urgency to get a conservator now so Jeremy can get to a “private secured perimeter facility specializing in treatment of dementia.”

In other words, his sister says he’s in desperate need of a conservator but is unable to make the call due to his deteriorating health.

To be clear, despite contradictory reports, Ron Jeremy’s sister isn’t requesting she take over as his conservator. She in fact is asking that his lawyer be given authority to make decisions regarding the former porn star’s finances and health care.

A few months ago Run Jeremy was committed to a state-run mental hospital in California, after being deemed unfit to stand trial due to his mental state. Like Bruce Willis, Ron Jeremy has been diagnosed with dementia, although in the case of Ron Jeremy, he’s progressed much further along and can’t care for himself anymore.

According to our sources, Ron Jeremy has been in the state mental home for months, where he receives round-the-clock care.  This however directly contradicts the documents filed by his sister which claim that he’s still pending transfer to the medical facility.

The need for a conservator is something that anyone with the inability to make decisions for themselves must have. If you can’t remember to eat or not urinate only yourself, then you’re not really in a position to decide much else for yourself, which is why his sister is asking the courts to appoint Ron’s lawyer in this position.

Lewy body dementia is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory, and movement (motor control).

Lewy body dementia causes a progressive decline in mental abilities. People with Lewy body dementia might have visual hallucinations and changes in alertness and attention. Other effects include Parkinson’s disease signs and symptoms such as rigid muscles, slow movement, walking difficulty, and tremors.

Lewy body dementia is progressive. Death, on average about seven to eight years after symptoms start in common.