A woman reported that she suffered sexual and psychological abuse by American singer Steven Tyler in the 1970s, when she was a minor.
Julia Holcomb filed a lawsuit in the Court of Los Angeles, California, collected this Thursday by Rolling Stone magazine. In the court document, the complainant recounts that she met the Aerosmith leader at a concert the band gave in Portland, Oregon, in 1973.
A year later, after having had several sexual encounters, the musician, who was already over 25 years old, went to his mother to request guardianship of her daughter, who was 16 years old, so they could live together.
The mother agreed and the couple lived together for three years, which resulted in the adolescent’s pregnancy at age 17, which, according to the woman’s account, was aborted at the artist’s insistence.
While Tyler’s name is not explicitly mentioned in the complaint, Holcomb went public with his past experience with the singer. In addition, the document cites the memoir of the rock legend, where he tells that he was about to marry a “teenage girlfriend” and that her parents signed a paper so that he would have custody and thus not have legal problems.
Likewise, the plaintiff accuses the musician of “coercing” and “persuading” her to believe that the abuse was simply part of a “romantic love story.”
