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infliction of emotional misery in a minor in a brand new lawsuit filed by Julia Holcomb — who says she was 16 years outdated when Tyler first focused her in 1973.
The lawsuit, which was filed beneath a 2019 California legislation that briefly waives the statute of limitations for childhood sexual assault, claims that Tyler used his place as a wealthy, well-known rock star to control her into having a sexual relationship with him when she was underage.
While the lawsuit doesn’t immediately determine Tyler by identify, as an alternative referring to Doe 1 and Does 2 by means of 50, Holcomb has spoken publicly about her allegations towards Tyler — and a number of the particulars within the swimsuit 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 swimsuit, which was obtained by Rolling Stone, Tyler introduced Holcomb again to his resort room and so they mentioned her age, in addition to her troubled residence life. Tyler then allegedly “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct upon” her earlier than sending her residence the following 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 checklist him as her guardian, which might permit him to journey with Holcomb throughout state traces and produce 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The lawsuit alleges that in 1975, Holcomb turned pregnant with Tyler’s son when she was 17 years outdated, however was satisfied to get an abortion by the Aerosmith frontman — a declare she has spoken about earlier than at anti-abortion rallies and in public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 condominium fireplace, arguing that their unborn child can be harmed as a result of smoke inhalation and the truth that Holcomb had been taking medication throughout their relationship — medication that, Holcomb claims, have been being offered 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 ultimately met her husband.
Holcomb claims she buried these recollections 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 woman, the condominium 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 condominium fireplace, however not the abortion.
The acknowledgments of Tyler’s memoirs embrace Julia Halcomb, which may very well be a misspelling of Holcomb.
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