Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been charged with sexual assault, sexual battery and intentionally causing emotional distress in a new lawsuit filed by a girl who claims she had a relationship with him when she was a youngster.
Julia Holcomb claims that Tyler convinced Holcomb’s mother to grant him custody of her when she was 16, paving the best way for a sexual relationship from around 1973 to 1976. in keeping with a Rolling Stone report published on Thursday. Tyler, who was born in 1948, would have been in his twenties on the time.
Holcomb reportedly doesn’t name Tyler in the lawsuit, as a substitute referring to the defendants as Defendant Doe 1 and doing 2 to 50.
The Post reached out to Tyler’s representatives for comment. Tyler, 74, relapsed into drug addiction and “voluntarily” checked himself into rehab in May.
Holcomb claims in the lawsuit that she was “powerless to withstand” Tyler’s power, fame and considerable financial opportunities, in keeping with press reports.
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She allegedly claims that Tyler “forced and convinced” her to imagine they were having a “romantic affair”.
Rolling Stone notes that Tyler’s 2011 memoir “Does the noise in my head trouble you?” refers to a relationship with a 16-year-old girl and mentions Julia Halcomb in the acknowledgments.
Holcomb has previously opened up a few relationship she says she shared with a former American Idol judge whom she said she met at an Oregon Aerosmith concert shortly after she turned 16. She claims to have followed him to Seattle while their sexual relationship was ongoing. Tyler allegedly gained custody around 1974.
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“He mentioned he wanted custody papers so I could travel across state lines while he was on tour” Holcomb wrote in 2011 on LifeSiteNews.com. “I told him my mother would not sign me up for it. I asked him how he got her to do it. He said, “I told her I needed them so you possibly can enroll in school.”
Holcomb – which in recent years has turn into, amongst others, anti-abortion activist — previously claimed she became pregnant in 1975 after Tyler threw her contraception pills off the balcony of a hotel room. While he was playing shows across the country, the couple’s apartment reportedly caught fire when Holcomb was five months pregnant.
She reported crawling to the door, which she wrote had three locks. “Steven insisted on keeping them locked in any respect times as he normally kept drugs in the home and our previous apartment had been broken into,” she wrote.
He claims that Tyler “told me I needed to have an abortion as a consequence of smoke damage to my lungs and lack of oxygen.”