by Simona Marchetti
According to documents filed by Sheila Kennedy in New York Supreme Court, the Guns N’ Roses frontman allegedly dragged her by the hair, tied her up and raped her in 1989
Dragged by her hair, tied up and brutally raped. This is the story told by former Penthouse model Sheila Kennedy in the lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court against Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose (i.e. William Bruce). The episode dates back to 1989, when the woman who won Pet of the Year in 1993 was 26 and the now 61-year-old rocker was at the peak of his career. As we read in Rolling Stone magazine, which gained access to the case’s documents, Kennedy met Rose at a club in New York and then followed him to his hotel for a private party with champagne, cocaine and alcohol.
At first, the model would have accepted the singer’s advances, but then she changed her mind when he started insisting that they have group sex with another model and his girlfriend Riki Rachtman. However, when the woman expressed her desire to leave, Rose allegedly “pushed her to the ground and dragged her into her bedroom by her hair like a caveman” and then tied her hands behind her back “with her knees bloody.” sexually assaulted her and sodomized her against her will. As the lawsuit states, Kennedy “felt she had no way out and decided to lie on the bed and wait for Rose, whom she treated as the object of her sexual pleasure, to finish raping her. “
The former model’s lawyers accuse the singer of “using his fame, celebrity status and power in the music industry to gain access to manipulate, control and violently attack the woman.” Kennedy, who is now demanding compensation and claiming that what happened “damaged my love life,” had previously spoken about the attack in his 2016 biography “No One’s Pet” and in a subsequent 2021 documentary. For now, the leader of Guns N’ Roses has not released a statement.
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November 23, 2023 (modified November 23, 2023 | 12:54)
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