Aerosmith's Steve Tyler accused of assaulting teen model in a phonebox in 1975
Aerosmith's Steve Tyler has been accused of sexual assault in a new lawsuit filed against him by former model Jeanne Bellino.
The 75-year-old singer is alleged to have assaulted Jeanne by kissing and dry-humping her after they met in New York City in 1975, when she was 17 and he was 27. According to Rolling Stone, the cause of action listed in the suit is gender-motivated violence, and the plaintiff is seeking unspecified damages.
In the lawsuit, the former child model alleges that she met Tyler after a friend had arranged for them to meet Aerosmith at the Warwick Hotel in Manhattan. While walking down Sixth Avenue, Bellino claims Tyler "stuck his tongue down her throat" after he forced her into a phone booth.
The suit states: "While holding her captive, Tyler stuck his tongue down her throat, and put his hands upon her body, her breasts, her buttocks, and her genitals, moving and removing clothing and pinning her against the wall of the phone booth. As Tyler was mauling and groping Plaintiff, he was humping her pretending to have sex with Plaintiff.
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Steve has been accused of assault"Others stood by outside the phone booth laughing and as passersby watched and witnessed, nobody in the entourage intervened. Tyler’s penis was erect and it was evident to her as he rubbed it against her that he was not wearing underwear and wearing thin pants."
Bellion claims that the incident was her first sexual experience. The suit continues: "Plaintiff fought back and struggled to be free but Tyler restrained her." It concludes that Bellino was able to free herself from the phone booth and decided to stay with the group as she was relying on her friend for transportation.
As the group returned to the Warwick hotel, Tyler allegedly forcibly kissed and grinded against her, while Bellion claims she continued to resist. She claims he told he he had to return to his room quickly and shortly after, proceeded to call down to the lobby to invite her to his room.
The allegations reportedly took place in the 70s (Getty Images)Bellino claims she "couldn't talk and was paralyzed" but shook her head and made her way to the exit, where she was "flung into a car" and taken home and told her sister about the allegations. In her suit, she claims she was hospitalised and she "suffered and will continue to suffer, great pain of mind and body, severe and permanent emotional distress, physical manifestations of emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, physical, personal & psychological injuries."
The Mirror has reached out to Steve Tyler's representatives for comment.
The lawsuit comes a year after Tyler was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in 1970s. Julia Holcomb filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles and accuses her alleged abuser of sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, alleging that he plied her with drugs after gaining guardianship from her mother and pressured her into an abortion.
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