A woman is suing the frontman of the Aerosmith Steven Tyleraccused him of molesting her and sexually raped in 70swhen the now 65-year-old woman was 16. Julia Holcomb-Misley he had spoken of it repeatedly alleged abuses by Tyler, but now, thanks to a change in California law – reports the Guardian – it’s possible to sue him Los Angeles Courthouse. “Knowing I’m not the only one who has been abused in the music industry, I think it’s time my voice was heard,” Misley said. The woman added that her goal is to “make the music industry safer, i sexual predators this environment and, above all, to bring to light those forces that have made possible and created a culture in which everything seems permitted”. While the woman’s complaint does not specifically mention Tyler, it does include passages from his 2011 autobiography, in which the singer described his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl he met after a concert in 1973. Among those excerpts is the one where Tyler explains that he asked that legal custody of the girl to her parents «so don’t get arrested if I had to take her to another state.”
The meeting
The complaint says the Aerosmith frontman and the girl met after a concert 1973 in Portlandwhen she had just turned 16. Tyler took the girl to a hotel and there «he fulfilled various sex crimes» before booking her a taxi to take her home. Later, the complaint continued, Tyler invited her to another concert and also paid for her plane tickets to travel without him, since the rock star was already of legal age at the time and it would have been illegal. “Same pattern as conditioning, manipulation and abuse it would take three years in different US states».
He forced me to have an abortion
In 1975, Misley became pregnant, but Tyler, who was supposed to be the child’s father and legal guardian, told her not to expect any parental obligation from him as he would “get in trouble with the doctors”. During the pregnancy, Misley was trapped in a burning building and suffered health problems from inhaling the fumes. After the event, Tyler would have it forced to abortShe continues to complain, causing years of trauma.
The description in the book
The woman is today an anti-abortion activist. Tyler describes it this way in his autobiography. «My bad personality was 26 years old, while she was barely old enough to drive, and having a blast. I fell madly in love with her.” The passage is disputed by Misley, who does not accept being described so explicitly in the book.
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