Steven Tyler is being sued by a lady who alleges that the Aerosmith frontman sexually assaulted and sexually battered her when she was a minor within the Seventies, Rolling Stone reviews. The lawsuit, as Rolling Stone notes, may very well be filed resulting from California’s Little one Victims Act, which briefly lifted the statute of limitations for alleged survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file complaints.
Within the lawsuit, the plaintiff, Julia Holcomb, alleges that she met Tyler in 1973 when she was 16 years previous and he was 25. The 2 apparently had a relationship that lasted three years, and Holcomb now alleges that she “was powerless to withstand” the singer’s “energy, fame, and substantial monetary skill,” and that he “coerced and persuaded Plaintiff into believing this was a ‘romantic love affair.’”
Along with sexual assault and sexual battery, Holcomb is suing Tyler for intentional infliction of emotional misery.
Steven Tyler is just not particularly named within the lawsuit, however contemporaneous particulars align with the singer being the criticism’s defendant. For instance, Julia Holcomb is called in Rolling Stone’s 1976 profile of Aerosmith, with journalist Ed McCormack writing, “Properly—Julia Holcomb is at all times close by, trailing in her wistfully towering means off his arm like a shawl—however Steven Tyler is wedded to his profession and picture 24 hours a day.” As well as, Tyler apparently wrote a couple of relationship with an underage lady in his 2011 memoir.
Holcomb additionally named Tyler in a press release she launched concerning the lawsuit. “I would like this motion to show an business that protects superstar offenders, to cleanse and maintain accountable an business that each exploited and allowed me to be exploited for years, together with so many different naïve and weak youngsters and adults,” she wrote. “As a result of I do know that I’m not the one one who suffered abuse within the music business, I really feel it’s time for me to take this stand and convey this motion, to talk up and stand in solidarity with the opposite survivors. I hope that from this motion, we are able to make the music business safer, expose the predators in it, and expose these forces within the business which have each enabled and created a tradition of permissiveness and self-protection of themselves and the superstar offenders amongst them.”
Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Steven Tyler for remark and extra info.
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