Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is the target of a complaint from a woman he allegedly had a relationship with in the 1970s when she was just 16.
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According to Rolling Stone magazine, Julia Holcomb filed a complaint against the 74-year-old singer for events that occurred in 1970.
In the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone, the plaintiff alleges that Steven Tyler convinced his mother to grant him custody when she was only 16 and he was 25.
Holcomb claims they were together for three years, from 1970 to 1973.
If Steven Tyler is not directly mentioned in the lawsuit, the plaintiff quotes passages from his memoir, published in 2004.
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Tyler wrote in the memoir, without naming the young woman, that he almost had a “teenage wife” and that her parents “were in love with him”. He writes that his parents gave him custody of the girl so he wouldn’t be arrested if he took her on tour with him.
In the lawsuit, Julia Holcomb alleges that she had “not the strength to resist the power” of Steven Tyler, arguing that he would have convinced them that they were having a “romantic affair”.
Hoclomb and Tyler reportedly met after a concert in Oregon. The singer would have taken the girl, then 16 years old, to his hotel room to perform sexual acts. He would then have returned the teenager to her home in a taxi the next morning, according to the lawsuit.
During their relationship, the man would also have provided a significant amount of drugs and alcohol to the young woman.
The suit alleges that Julia Holcomb would have become pregnant by Steven Tyler in 1974, but that he would have convinced her to have an abortion, otherwise he threatened to cease all financial support.