Steven Tyler has denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in 1973 and forced her to have an abortion.
The Aerosmith frontman recently filed a lengthy response to the claims filed in the December 2022 lawsuit, arguing that the plaintiff consented to their sexual relationship and that he once had immunity as her legal guardian, according to the claims. Documents obtained by Rolling Stone.
Tyler, now 75, additionally asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed, citing 24 affirmative defenses denying the allegations.
At one level, Tyler even asserted that plaintiff Julia Missley, formerly often referred to as Julia Holcomb, “suffered no harm or injury by reason of any solicitation of the defendant.”
In addition, he found that “Whether or not the plaintiff was broke, the defendant did not cause such damage.”
The response comes three months after Misley accused the rocker of sexual harassment, assault and in addition claimed he forced her to have an abortion during their relationship in the nineteen seventies.
In court documents, Misley alleged that Tyler “coerced and persuaded” her to believe they had a “romantic affair” that began when she was 16 and he was 25.
While she didn’t immediately call him out on the swimsuit issue, Misley has spoken publicly about her relationship with Tyler over time.
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The musician also admitted in his memoir, ‘Does the Noise in My Head Disturb?’, that he had a relationship with a then-unnamed 16-year-old lady?
In fact, he revealed in the e-book that he “almost took a teenage bride” because “her father and mother fell in love with me.” [and] signed me over to custody so I wouldn’t be arrested if I took her out of state.”
In her swimsuit, which was filed just days before the statute of limitations for reporting child sexual abuse offenses was set to expire, Missley said the rock star “performed a variety of legitimate sexual acts” toward her after being picked on during an Aerosmith live performance in Portland. .
Misley claims that Tyler was able to convince his mother to let him become her legal guardian in 1975 after flying her to several cities where he toured and engaged in same-sex acts.
However, Missley said she was not looked after as promised by Tyler, claiming he “continued to travel, assault and supply her with alcohol and drugs”.
He also claimed that after he finally got her pregnant, according to court documents, and forced her to have an abortion, he would no longer help her.
Missley claimed that his behavior caused her to leave him and move back to Portland to start a new life as a religious Catholic.
Misley’s lawyer, Jeff Anderson, criticized the rocker’s presence, saying he was using a “bogus legal guardianship to avoid prosecution for sex crimes.”
“He further hurts Misley and gaslights her by falsely claiming that she ‘consented’ and that the pain she caused was ‘justified and in good faith,'” Anderson said in a press release to Rolling Stone.
“We’ve never encountered a mandated defense as obnoxious and certainly harmful as what Tyler and his lawyers launched this week. they declare that authorized custody is consent and authorization for sexual abuse.”
Tyler’s representatives did not immediately respond to Page Six seeking comment.