Steven Tyler has been charged with sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery on a minor in a brand new lawsuit that additionally alleges he pressured the minor to have an abortion.
The plaintiff, Julia Holcomb, claimed within the court docket paperwork obtained Thursday by Rolling Stone that she started a sexual relationship with the Aerosmith frontman in 1973 shortly after her sixteenth birthday – when Tyler would have been 25.
Regardless of not naming Tyler within the lawsuit and calling the defendants Defendant Doe 1 and Does 2 by way of 50, Holcomb has spoken publicly about her alleged relationship with him up to now.
In her go well with, she claimed she met the musician at an Aerosmith live performance in Portland, the place she lived, and that he took her again to his resort room after the present.
Holcomb claimed she advised Tyler her age and about her troubled dwelling life earlier than he “perpetrated varied acts of prison sexual conduct on” her. Holcomb claimed he despatched her dwelling in a taxi the following morning.
She additional claimed that the rocker flew her out to his upcoming Aerosmith present in Seattle, after which he allegedly carried out extra sexual acts on her, and flew her again to Portland the following day.
Holcomb claimed that, in 1974, Tyler satisfied her mom to permit him to develop into her authorized guardian allegedly by promising to ensure she was taken care of and enrolled at school.
However in line with Holcomb’s go well with, he “didn’t meaningfully comply with by way of on these guarantees and as an alternative continued to journey with, assault and supply alcohol and medicines to” her.
In 1975, when Holcomb was 17, she claimed that she grew to become pregnant with Tyler’s son and that the singer insisted that she terminate the being pregnant.
She claimed that he threatened to cease supporting her if she didn’t proceed with the process.
After the miscarriage, Holcomb claimed she left Tyler and moved again to Portland to start out a brand new life as a religious Catholic.
Nonetheless, in 20ll, Tyler revealed a memoir by which he wrote that he “nearly took a teenage bride” after the woman’s “mother and father fell in love with me [and] signed a paper for me to have custody so I would not be arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on a discipline journey.”
Holcomb claimed in her go well with that the ebook’s publication subjected her to “unintended infamy” by portray the false image of a “romantic, loving relationship.”
She additionally famous that she is talked about within the memoir’s acknowledgments – presumably with out consent – beneath the title Julia. Halcombwhich may very well be a misspelling.
Holcomb is seemingly talked about within the acknowledgments of the memoir beneath the title Julia Halcomb, which may very well be a misspelling.
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Holcomb is seemingly talked about within the acknowledgments of the memoir beneath the title Julia Halcomb, which may very well be a misspelling.
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Holcomb detailed her allegations towards Tyler a number of occasions over time, together with through the 2012 March for Life.
Representatives for Tyler, now 74, didn’t instantly reply to both Rolling Stone or Web page Six when contacted for remark.