Julia Holcomb filed a lawsuit accusing Steven Tyler of abusing her as a teen
Aerosmith star Steven Tyler has been {accused} in a lawsuit of sexually abusing an underage woman when she was 16 and he was 25 within the Nineteen Seventies.
Julia Holcomb filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles within the last days of a California legislation that briefly lifts the statute of limitations for such claims beneath a ‘look-back’ window that ends on Saturday.
The swimsuit, first reported by Rolling Stone, doesn’t title Tyler, figuring out him as ‘Defendant Doe,’ but it surely quotes instantly from Tyler’s 2011 memoir describing the connection.
Holcomb has additionally beforehand spoken publicly about her alleged relationship with the rock star.
Holcomb within the lawsuit accuses the music legend of sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery, alleging that he plied her with medication after gaining guardianship from her mom and pressured her into an abortion.
A consultant for Tyler didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from DailyMail.com on Thursday evening.
The swimsuit, first reported by Rolling Stone, doesn’t title Tyler, figuring out him as ‘Defendant Doe,’ but it surely quotes instantly from Tyler’s 2011 memoir describing the connection
Although it didn’t title Holcomb, Tyler’s memoir fondly described his roughly three-year sexual relationship with a teen woman within the Nineteen Seventies.
‘She was sixteen, she knew methods to nasty, and there wasn’t a hair on it,’ Tyler wrote within the e book, which names the woman as ‘Diana’.
Tyler wrote within the e book he ‘nearly took a teen bride’ and that ‘her mother and father fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I would not get arrested if I took her out of state.’
‘With my unhealthy self being twenty-six and he or she barely sufficiently old to drive and horny as hell, I simply fell head over heels in love along with her,’ he wrote. ‘She was a cute skinny little tomboy dressed up as Little Bo Peep. She was my coronary heart’s need, my accomplice in crimes of ardour.’
Tyler described a relationship with a 16-year-old woman in his memoir
Holcomb’s lawsuit alleges that she met him in 1973 shortly after her sixteenth birthday, when she attended an Aerosmith live performance in Portland, Oregon and returned to Tyler’s resort room after the present.
The swimsuit claims that after discussing Holcomb’s age, Tyler ‘carried out numerous acts of legal sexual conduct upon’ her.
In keeping with the lawsuit, the connection progressed and Holcomb ‘was powerless to withstand’ Tyler’s ‘energy, fame and substantial monetary means.’
In 1974, Tyler satisfied Holcomb’s mom to grant him guardianship over her so they may journey throughout state traces, the swimsuit alleges, echoing Tyler’s memoir.
Although Tyler had promised to care for the teenager and pay for her schooling and healthcare, he ‘as a substitute continued to journey with, assault and supply alcohol and medicines to Plaintiff,’ the swimsuit claims.
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith performs stay on stage at RFK Stadium in Washington DC in 1976. The swimsuit says Holcomb’s relationship with him lasted from 1973 to 1976
The next yr, Holcomb says she grew to become pregnant with Tyler’s son when she was 17, however that he pressured her into an abortion after an house fireplace, claiming the newborn might need been injured by smoke inhalation.
Tyler mentions the fireplace in his memoir, however not the abortion. Nonetheless, an Aerosmith autobiography in 1997 references a relationship with a teen woman, the house fireplace, and an abortion.
Holcomb transformed to Catholicism following her alleged relationship with Tyler, and have become an anti-abortion activist who has repeatedly spoken out about her expertise.
In 2011, after Tyler printed his memoir, she wrote an essay for anti-abortion web site web site LifeSiteNews.com, claiming Tyler snorted cocaine at her bedside throughout her abortion.
In 1974, Tyler satisfied Holcomb’s mom to grant him guardianship over her so they may journey throughout state traces, the swimsuit alleges, echoing Tyler’s memoir
Holcomb additionally appeared on Fox Information in 2020, telling host Tucker Carlson in regards to the alleged relationship and abortion.
‘I met Steven Tyler after I was simply 16 years previous, and he grew to become my authorized guardian,’ she mentioned within the interview.
‘He made the choice that he wished me to have an abortion…and it did not actually matter how I begged to maintain my child, that call actually wasn’t going to be in my arms.’
The lawsuit was filed beneath the California’s Baby Victims Act, which created a three-year window for submitting civil swimsuit over youngster sexual abuse claims. The window expires on December 31.
