Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler accused of ‘sexual assault of minor’ in lawsuit with shock ‘teen pregnancy and abortion’ claims
AEROSMITH frontman, Steven Tyler, has been accused of sexual assault of a minor in the mid-1970s by a woman claiming to be a former girlfriend.
The woman claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Tyler that began when she was underage, according to a lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone.
The relationship allegedly began in 1973 when the plaintiff, Julia Holcomb, was 16[/caption]
Holcomb alleged that Tyler ‘coerced and persuaded’ her into believing that they were having a ‘romantic love affair’[/caption]
Tyler is being accused of sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress by plaintiff Julia Holcomb.
The lawsuit alleges that Tyler convinced Holcomb’s mother to give him guardianship over her when she was 16, allowing the teen to live with him.
During this time, Holcomb claims the two had a sexual affair that last for three years.
Tyler wasn’t explicitly named in the suit as it named the defendants as Defendant Doe 1 and Does 2 through 50, however, Holcomb has publicly spoken about her alleged relationship with Tyler in the past.
The lawsuit also takes quotes from Tyler’s memoir, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, in which he said he “almost took a teen bride” and that “her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour with me.”
Tyler did not state the “teen bride’s” name in the memoir however, a Julia Halcomb was named in the acknowledgments.
Holcomb claimed in the suit that she was “powerless to resist” Tyler’s “power, fame, and substantial financial ability.”
She also alleges that Tyler “coerced and persuaded” her into believing that they were having a “romantic love affair.”
Holcomb claims that she met Tyler just after her 16th birthday – he would have been 25 years old at this time – when Aerosmith played a concert in Portland, Oregon, in 1973.
The suit alleges that Tyler took Holcomb back to his hotel, where they spoke about the teenager’s age before he allegedly “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct upon” her and then sent her home in a taxi the next morning.
Tyler allegedly bought Holcomb a plane ticket to the next Aerosmith show in Seattle, which the suit claims was due to the fact that she was a minor and could not legally travel with him across state lines.
After the Seattle show, Tyler allegedly performed more sex acts on Holcomb, who flew back to Portland in the morning.
After Tyler became Holcomb’s guardian, the suit claims that he was able to travel with her easily without worrying about criminal prosecution.
This timeline apparently matches Tyler’s own words from his memoir.
“She was sixteen, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn’t a hair on it,” Tyler wrote in his memoir.
“With my bad self being twenty-six and she barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just fell madly in love with her. She was a cute skinny little tomboy dressed up as Little Bo Peep. She was my heart’s desire, my partner in crimes of passion.”
Tyler allegedly told Holcomb’s mother that he would be able to give her better support than what she was receiving at home and promised to enroll her in school.
However, the suit claimed that he “did not meaningfully follow through on these promises and instead continued to travel with, assault and provide alcohol and drugs to Plaintiff.”
Holcomb also claimed that the relationship resulted in a pregnancy in 1975 when she was 17, however, she got an abortion at Tyler’s insistence following an apartment fire.
She claimed that Tyler said smoke inhalation and lack of oxygen would have been harmful to the baby, however, the lawsuit claimed that a medical professional told Holcomb the unborn baby wasn’t harmed by the fire.
The suit claimed that Holcomb was hesitant about getting the abortion but that Tyler threatened to stop supporting her if she didn’t have the procedure.
Holcomb allegedly left Tyler after having the abortion and returned to Portland, where she became a devout Catholic and met her husband.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Tyler’s reps for comment but has not heard back at the time of writing.