Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has been accused of violent sexual assault by a former mannequin, based on a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday. The incident allegedly befell greater than 30 years in the past.
Sheila Kennedy, a former Penthouse mannequin, alleges that she was “violently” sexually assaulted by the singer in 1989 after they met at a nightclub in New York City. She has sued Rose for battery, assault, gender-motivated violence and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
Kennedy is in search of unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for bodily damage, ache and struggling, extreme emotional misery, psychological anguish, humiliation, embarrassment, nervousness and financial hurt. She says the alleged incident left her with nervousness and melancholy and harmed her profession.
Pethouse Pet Sheila Kennedy attends Bob Guccione’s Cocktail Party for 1983 Penthouse Pet of the Year.
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The lawsuit comes simply someday earlier than a short lived New York regulation, the Adult Survivors Act, expires. The regulation permits grownup victims to sue over assaults that occurred even when the statute of limitations on their claims has expired.
According to the lawsuit, reported by Rolling Stone, Kennedy says Rose invited her again to his lodge room for a celebration after assembly at a nightclub. Kennedy alleges Rose provided get together friends cocaine and alcohol on the get together.
At one level, whereas leaving the lavatory, Rose was allegedly ready for Kennedy outdoors. He “pushed Kennedy against a wall and kissed her,” which the previous mannequin “did not mind” and “was open to sleeping with him if things progressed.”
As the night time went on, Kennedy claims Rose started encouraging among the get together friends to have group intercourse and says she grew to become “uncomfortable” as she watched him have intercourse with one other mannequin. The grievance alleges she left the room and later heard him throwing glass and screaming insults on the mannequin.
Later that night time, Kennedy alleges Rose, now 61, “knocked her to the floor,” dragged her by the hair, tied her fingers behind her again with a pair of pantyhose and proceeded to sexually assault her “while he was in a sexual, volatile rage.”
“Kennedy did not consent and felt overpowered,” the grievance reads, based on Rolling Stone. “She understood that the safest thing to do was to lie in bed and wait for Rose to finish assaulting her.”
“Rose made no attempt to ask for or check that Kennedy was consenting,” the lawsuit contines. “He treated her like property used solely for his sexual pleasure.”
The lawsuit mentioned the assault left Kennedy with lifelong emotional, bodily, psychological and monetary injury and “symptoms akin to post-traumatic stress disorder whenever she hears Rose’s name or the music of Guns N’ Roses.”
Portrait of American mannequin and actress Sheila Kennedy as she leans on the balcony on the Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris, France, August 1981. A photograph from this session later appeared on the duvet of the October 1987 difficulty of Penthouse journal.
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Rose’s lawyer, Alan S. Gutman, denied the allegations, telling CNN in an announcement, “Simply put, this incident never happened.”
“Notably, these fictional claims were filed the day before the New York State filing deadline expires. Though he doesn’t deny the possibility of a fan photo taken in passing, Mr. Rose has no recollection of ever meeting or speaking to the Plaintiff, and has never heard about these fictional allegations prior to today,” the assertion continued. “Mr. Rose is confident this case will be resolved in his favor.”
Kennedy has made the allegations about Rose prior to now, together with in her 2016 memoir, No One’s Pet, and in a 2021 documentary, Look Away, about ladies sexually abused within the music trade.
Axl Rose performs on the Guns ‘N’ Roses ‘Not In This Lifetime’ Tour at QSAC Stadium Brisbane on Feb. 7, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia.
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According to People, Rose has confronted different accusations of sexual abuse prior to now, together with an arrest for alleged statutory rape (the costs have been later dropped), and in 1994 two of his former companions, Erin Everly and Stephanie Seymour, advised the journal that Rose had abused them however each settled lawsuits in opposition to the singer out of court docket.
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If you or somebody you understand is experiencing abuse or is concerned in an abusive state of affairs, please go to the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime for assist. They are additionally reachable toll-free at 1-877-232-2610.
— With recordsdata from The Associated Press
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