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United StatesSteven Tyler targeted by a complaint for sexual assault on a minor
The Aerosmith singer also allegedly forced the teenager to have an abortion following learning she was pregnant.
Steven Tyler has yet to respond to the accusations.
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The facts date back to 1973. Julia Holcomb, 16 at the time, claims to have had sex with Steven Tyler, then 25 years old. In the court documents consulted by “Rolling Stone”, the plaintiff does not directly mention the name of the rocker, but evokes passages from the book of the leader of Aerosmith.
The alleged victim explains having met the singer during a concert of the group in Portland, at the end of which he would have brought her back to her hotel. According to the complainant, now 65, she would have warned the American singer that she was a minor, which would not have prevented the latter from acting out and committing “various criminal sexual acts”.
Later, the rocker would have invited Julia Holcomb to another Aerosmith concert in Seattle, providing her with a plane to pick her up. After the show, Steven Tyler once once more sexually abused the teenager. Their relationship then lasted three years, during which she explains that she was powerless and unable to resist the “power, fame and significant financial capacity” of the star.
Alcohol, drugs and abortion
In 1974, the singer managed to convince Julia’s mother to let him become her legal guardian, who was supposed to ensure that the teenager went to school. But according to the complaint, “he broke his promises and continued to travel with her, abuse her and supply her with alcohol and drugs.” When in 1975, Julia Holcomb, then 17 years old, was pregnant, the singer would have forced her to have an abortion, threatening to no longer support her financially if she kept the baby. Julia would have had an abortion before leaving Steven Tyler and starting a new life in Oregon.
For the time being, the principal concerned has not responded to the accusations. He has, however, hinted in the past that he knows her. In his memoirs, published in 2011, Steven Tyler writes in particular that he “nearly married a teenager”, who was “barely old enough to drive”, and that her parents had “signed a paper to give her custody in order to avoid that he will not be arrested if he makes her travel to another State”.