LOS ANGELES — A girl who has earlier said Steven Tyler had an illicit sexual partnership with her when she was a teen is now suing the Aerosmith frontman for sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The lawsuit brought by Julia Misley was submitted Tuesday beneath a 2019 California law that gave grownup victims of childhood sexual assault a a few-yr window to file lawsuits for many years-previous circumstances of assault. Saturday is the deadline to file such claims.
The 65-12 months-outdated Misley, formerly known as Julia Holcomb, mentioned in a statement that she wanted to seize “a new possibility to acquire authorized motion towards these that abused me in my youth.” The Affiliated Push does not identify victims of sexual assault unless they publicly discover themselves.
Though the lawsuit doesn’t title Tyler, Misley recognized him by title in the statement, issued via the law company Jeff Anderson & Associates. She has also recounted her experiences with Tyler in prior interviews, and Tyler reviewed a romantic relationship with a teenage woman in two books, printed in 2011 and 1997. The acknowledgements segment of his memoir “Does The Sound In My Head Bother You?” many thanks a “Julia Halcomb,” which Misley has said is a reference to her.
Associates for Tyler did not right away return requests for remark Friday. Rolling Stone first claimed the lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges Tyler “used his role, status, and electric power as a well-known musician and rock star to obtain access to, groom, manipulate, exploit, sexually assault,” Misley in excess of a period of three decades. Some of the abuse happened in Los Angeles County, the lawsuit mentioned. As a final result, she has experienced extreme psychological injury as well as economic losses, the lawsuit stated.
The lawsuit says that Misley met Tyler in 1973 at just one of his exhibits in Portland, Oregon, and was afterwards invited to Tyler’s resort home, where she said she informed him she was 16 years previous. Tyler would have been 25 or 26 at the time. It suggests he engaged in “various acts of prison sexual conduct” from Misley.
He engaged in sexual acts with her pursuing various other exhibits, and in 1974 he turned her lawful guardian so that she could vacation to him with shows, the lawsuit alleged.
The lawsuit alleged that Misley became expecting in 1975 as a outcome of possessing sex with Tyler, and that he afterwards coerced her into obtaining an abortion.
Tyler even further harmed Misley by publishing memoirs that detailed parts of their connection with no her understanding or consent, the lawsuit alleged. Accomplishing so subjected Misley to public awareness and scrutiny, which retraumatized her and designed it harder for her to recuperate, the lawsuit mentioned.
In Tyler’s 2011 memoir, he mentions conference an unnamed 16-yr-old “girlfriend to be.” He wrote that he pretty much “took a teen bride” and obtained her mother and father to signal more than custody so he wouldn’t get arrested when she went on tour with him out of state.
“By which include Plaintiff’s title in the acknowledgements, he still left the readers and the public with no any question of Plaintiff’s identity,” the lawsuit states, including that she was confronted with a photo of her have experience on a tabloid include at a grocery shop soon after the book’s publication.
Tyler’s romantic relationship with a teenage woman is also referenced by quite a few people today in “Walk This Way,” a 1997 “autobiography” of Aerosmith in oral heritage structure. The teenager is specified the pseudonym “Diana Hall” and, at a single stage, is explained as pregnant. Tyler stated he was pondering about marrying her, referenced abortions, and named it a “tricky problem all about.”
The lawsuit seeks monetary payment of an unspecified amount of money.