New chapters of the process that accuses Steven Tyler of alleged sexual abuse in 1970 surfaced this week, and the lead singer of the band Aerosmith defended himself against the accusations.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, Tyler denied the accusations and claimed that the relationship with Julia Misley was consensual. At the time, the singer was 25 and Julia was 16 and he was her legal guardian. In addition, Steven asks for the filing of the lawsuit.
The process started in December last year and is still unfolding.
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The allegations say that Julia Misley (formerly known as Julia Holcomb) was sexually abused and assaulted by the singer when she was just 16 years old. In addition, the lawsuit also accuses him of intentionally inflicting emotional distress, and was filed in California, United States.
According to the lawsuit, at the time of the relationship, Tyler would have convinced Julia’s mother to place her under his guardianship so that they could continue with the relationship and live together. They dated for more than three years, and the young woman traveled alongside the star during some tours around the world.
Still according to Julia, the singer would have made her believe that it was a love affair and that, during tour trips, he would have supplied alcohol and drugs to the minor. In addition, Misley even recorded that she was forced to have an abortion and that the singer threatened to stop paying her bills if she did not.
The lawsuit even used excerpts from the Aerosmith frontman’s own book, in which they record when he would have married a teenager and convinced her parents to sign a document so that he would not be arrested if he took her out of the state.
In his defense, Tyler alleges that the entire relationship with Julia was consensual, that she suffered no harm or harm as a result of his actions, and that he would have immunity as her legal guardian at the time.
The latest updates were on Julia’s defense response. “He is causing Misley even more pain and gaslighting her with the false claim that she ‘consented’ and that the pain he caused was ‘justified and in good faith.’ We’ve never encountered a defense as distasteful and potentially dangerous as the one Tyler and her attorneys launched this week: the claim that legal guardianship is consent and permission for sexual abuse,” said Jeff Anderson, attorney for the American, in a statement at large.
Source: CNN Brasil
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