Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler sued for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor – National | 24CA News
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been accused of sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery in a minor in a brand new lawsuit filed by Julia Holcomb — who says she was 16 years previous when Tyler first focused her in 1973.
The lawsuit, which was filed underneath a 2019 California legislation that quickly waives the statute of limitations for childhood sexual assault, claims that Tyler used his place as a wealthy, well-known rock star to govern her into having a sexual relationship with him when she was underage.
While the lawsuit doesn’t straight establish Tyler by identify, as an alternative referring to Doe 1 and Does 2 by means of 50, Holcomb has spoken publicly about her allegations in opposition to Tyler — and a number of the particulars within the go well with have been taken from the rock star’s personal memoir.
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Holcomb alleges that she met Tyler throughout an Aerosmith live performance in Portland, Ore., simply after her sixteenth birthday. Tyler, now 74, would have been 25 on the time.
According to the go well with, which was obtained by Rolling Stone, Tyler introduced Holcomb again to his lodge room they usually mentioned her age, in addition to her troubled house life. Tyler then allegedly “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct upon” her earlier than sending her house the subsequent morning.
Holcomb says she was “powerless to resist” Tyler due to his “power, fame and substantial financial ability.” The lawsuit reads that Tyler “coerced and persuaded Plaintiff into believing this was a ‘romantic love affair.’”
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In 1974, Tyler allegedly satisfied Holcomb’s mom to record him as her guardian, which might enable him to journey with Holcomb throughout state traces and convey the minor on tour with out the concern of prosecution.
Tyler writes of this incident in his personal memoir, saying he “almost took a teen bride,” and that “her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state.”
The lawsuit alleges that in 1975, Holcomb turned pregnant with Tyler’s son when she was 17 years previous, however was satisfied to get an abortion by the Aerosmith frontman — a declare she has spoken about earlier than at anti-abortion rallies and in public interviews.
Tyler allegedly insisted on the abortion following an residence fireplace, arguing that their unborn child could be harmed because of the smoke inhalation and the truth that Holcomb had been taking medicine throughout their relationship — medicine that, Holcomb claims, have been being supplied by Tyler.
According to the lawsuit, Holcomb went by means of with the abortion after Tyler threatened to cease supporting her. After terminating the being pregnant, Holcomb says she left Tyler and moved again to Portland, the place she turned a religious Catholic and finally met her husband.
Holcomb claims she buried these reminiscences of Tyler till the rock star wrote about them in his memoir and subjected her to “involuntary infamy” by framing her childhood sexual assault as a “romantic, loving relationship.”
The 1997 Aerosmith autobiography references Tyler’s relationship with an underage lady, the residence fireplace and abortion — although the sufferer in query is known as Diana. Tyler additional wrote about these occasions in his personal memoir and talked about the residence fireplace, however not the abortion.
The acknowledgments of Tyler’s memoirs embody Julia Halcomb, which could possibly be a misspelling of Holcomb.
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