Steven Tyler, the leader of the group Aerosmith, accused of sexual assault on a minor – Liberation

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Ex-girlfriend of the singer of the American rock group, Julia Holcomb filed a complaint for sexual assault when she was 16 years old, in the 1970s.

She was only 16 years old. Julia Holcomb has filed a complaint against the singer of the American group Aerosmith for sexual assault and deliberate intention to inflict emotional distress, the magazine revealed on Thursday evening. Rolling Stone. The facts alleged by the complainant date back to the 1970s and their relationship, known to the general public. The relationship reportedly lasted three years.

The complaint in question does not directly mention the name of Steven Tyler, but evokes passages from the memoirs of the singer. He himself wrote in this book having “almost married a teenager”whose parents had “signed a paper for [lui] entrust custody in order to prevent[il] be arrested if[il] made her travel to another state”. Elle “barely old enough to drive” and 26-year-old Steven Tyler took her on tour with Aerosmith.

According to the complaint, the two met after the rock band’s concert in Oregon in 1973. Steven Tyler then allegedly drove her back to his hotel, discussed her age with her and then allegedly addicted to “various criminal sexual acts”, she says. Julia Holcomb, “powerless to resist” au “power, fame and significant financial capacity” of the singer, nevertheless continued to see him. The singer of “Dream on” allegedly succeeded in convincing Julia Holcomb’s mother to obtain custody of the young woman who was still a minor, and continued to travel with the plaintiff, sexually assaulting her and supplying her with drugs and alcohol during her tour.

The complaint also mentions the pregnancy of Julia Holcomb, who became pregnant with the singer at age 17. Under the threat of Steven Tyler, she would have aborted. Before breaking up with him and joining Portland, Oregon, where she rebuilt her life, until the publication of the memoirs of the leader of Aerosmith in 2011. Julia Holcomb had already mentioned her relationship with him and had accused of sexual assault on a far-right, anti-abortion website, Lifesitenews, when the memoir was released, and later in a documentary in 2021.

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