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Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Minor In Mid-1970s, New Lawsuit Alleges

<p>A woman named Julia Holcomb has filed a lawsuit against Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler&period; According to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rollingstone&period;com&sol;music&sol;music-news&sol;steven-tyler-sexual-assault-minor-lawsuit-1234653817&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Rolling Stone<&sol;a>&comma; Holcomb says she had an illicit relationship with Tyler when she was just 16 years old&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Holcomb is accusing Tyler of &&num;8220&semi;sexual assault&comma; sexual battery&comma; and intentional infliction of emotional distress&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1608850413700235267" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the outlet&comma; Holcomb&&num;8217&semi;s lawsuit was filed after California temporarily waived statutes of limitations for childhood sexual abuse allegations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A &&num;8220&semi;Teen Bride&&num;8221&semi; &amp&semi; Legal Guardianship<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Holcomb alleges that Tyler convinced her mother to grant him guardianship of the minor&comma; promising that he would take better care of her&period; Which then allowed the minor to live in his home&period; Tyler then took advantage of a sexual relationship&period; Holcomb says that she and Tyler were involved with one another &&num;8220&semi;from 1973 until about three years later&period; &&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is not the first time Holcomb has publicly shared her experience with Tyler&period; Additionally&comma; Tyler has even detailed his relationship with Holcomb in a previous memoir&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the outlet&comma; Tyler wrote that he &&num;8220&semi;almost took a teen bride&period;” He even addressed receiving guardianship of Holcomb from her parents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>her parents fell in love with me&comma; signed a paper over for me to have custody&comma; so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state&period; I took her on tour with me&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In the suit&comma; Holcomb alleges that Tyler &&num;8220&semi;coerced and persuaded Plaintiff into believing this was a &&num;8216&semi;romantic love affair&period;'&&num;8221&semi; She added that she &&num;8220&semi;was powerless to resist” the rock star&&num;8217&semi;s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;power&comma; fame&comma; and substantial financial ability&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">How Holcomb &amp&semi; Tyler Met<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Holcomb said that she met Tyler after her 16th birthday when Aerosmith performed at a concert in Portland&period; She recalled the year to be 1973&period; She then said that Tyler took her back to his hotel room and &&num;8220&semi;performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct upon&&num;8221&semi; her&period; Before sending her home in a taxi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Holcomb added that she and Tyler openly discussed her age&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"Wcr6Fg02tP0" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" dock&equals;"&num;dock-slot"><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From then on&comma; various sexual encounters would occur between the two&period; An excerpt from Tyler&&num;8217&semi;s memoir shows his acknowledgment of the pair&&num;8217&semi;s contrast in age&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>With my bad self being twenty-six and she barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell&comma; I just fell madly in love with her&period; She was a cute skinny little tomboy dressed up as Little Bo Peep&period; She was my heart’s desire&comma; my partner in crimes of passion&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;I Would Barely Make It Out Alive&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Holcomb would become pregnant with Tyler&&num;8217&semi;s son in 1975&period; She was 17 years old&period; However&comma; Tyler instructed her to abort the child due to an apartment fire the two had been involved in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I became lost in a rock and roll culture&period; In Steven’s world it was sex&comma; drugs&comma; and rock and roll&comma; but it seemed no less chaotic than the world I left behind&period; I didn’t know it yet&comma; but I would barely make it out alive&&num;8230&semi; I could not believe he was even asking me to have an abortion at this stage&period; He spent over an hour pressing me to go ahead and have the abortion&period; He said that I was too young to have a baby and it would have brain damage because I had been in the fire and taken drugs&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>After the abortion&comma; Holcomb left Tyler and relocated to Portland where she changed her life&period; And buried her experience with the rock star&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She says her world was then rattled with the release of Tyler&&num;8217&semi;s memoir&comma; recounting the events between the two&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1608857627840372741" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Holcomb adds that the memoir was published without her consent&period; 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