Judge Dismisses Suit Alleging Steven Tyler Sexually Assaulted Model When She Was 17
deadline.comA U.S. District Judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from a woman who alleges that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sexually assaulted her when she was 17.
The case was one of two pending against the Grammy winner. The other, filed in California in 2022, is still in process. The suit from Jeanne Bellino maintains that she was a 17-year-old model when a friend arranged for her to meet the singer, then 27.
Bellino’s complaint says Tyler sexually assaulted her twice over the next few hours, — once in a phone booth and once at a hotel — by forcibly groping, kissing and “humping” her.
The former American Idol star’s court filings have stated he “vehemently denies” the allegations. The suit was brought under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, which extends the statute of limitations for older cases, offering a new, two-year window in which they can make new claims for incidents that may have happened decades ago.
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