A woman who Alleging that she had an illicit relationship with Steven Taylor in the seventies when she was a child has filed a lawsuit against the Aerosmith singer, accusing him of rape, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The case was filed under a California law that temporarily waives the statute of limitations for child molestation charges.
In a lawsuit filed and received in Los Angeles Rolling StonePlaintiff Julia Holcomb alleges that Taylor convinced Holcomb’s mother to give him custody of her when she was 16, which in turn allowed her to live with him and have sex with him. He claims they were together for three years from 1973. Taylor himself is not named in the lawsuit, the defendants are named as Defendants Doe 1 and Does 2 through 50. But Holcomb – who Rolling Stone A 1976 profile of Bond mentioned Taylor’s romantic life—she had gone public about her experience with Taylor in the past, and cited the case directly. From Taylor’s own memoir. In his book, without giving his name, Taylor similarly states that he had “almost taken a young bride” and that “her parents loved me, for me to have custody of one.” “She signed the paper, so I won’t be caught if I deport her from the state. I took her with me on the trip.”
“I want this action to expose an industry that protects notorious criminals, clean up and hold accountable an industry that has exploited and allowed them to profit, along with many other poor and vulnerable children and adults, for years. I will.” Julia Mesley, under her current name, said in a statement about her suit. In the statement, she also referred to the law that allows her to face the suit and the “extraction” and trauma she claims she suffered from Taylor. “Because I know I’m not the only person who has faced abuse in the music industry, I feel it’s time for me to take this stand and take action, speak up and save the lives of others. I stand in solidarity with the rest.”
In the lawsuit, Holcomb alleges that she was powerless to resist Tyler’s “power, fame and considerable financial prowess, and that Tyler” coerced and convinced the plaintiff that it was “romantic.” “Love affair”. Holcomb alleges that she met Taylor (who would have been 25 at the time of their meeting) after her 16th birthday when Aerosmith played a concert in Portland, Oregon in 1973. hotel room, where they discussed Holcomb’s age. After he claims she was out all night by herself, Taylor and Holcomb talk about her problems at home. He then “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct” with her after taking her home in a taxi the next morning, the lawsuit says.
Taylor allegedly bought Holcomb’s plane ticket to his upcoming Aerosmith show in Seattle because she was a minor and could not legally travel with him across state lines. After the Seattle show, Taylor allegedly performed multiple sexual acts on her, and Holcomb flew back to Portland the next morning.
In 1974, as the suit alleges, Taylor convinced Holcomb’s mother to let him become her guardian, which would allow him to travel with her more easily without criminal prosecution — a time Distribution that matches Taylor’s own comments from the 2011 memo. Taylor allegedly told Holcomb’s mother that he would provide better support than she would receive at home, promising to enroll her in school and provide her with medical care. Taylor “did not meaningfully follow through on these promises and instead continued to travel with plaintiff, assault, and provide alcohol and drugs,” the lawsuit alleges.
Holcomb then claims she was pregnant with Taylor’s son in 1975 when she was 17 but had an abortion after Taylor insisted she terminate the pregnancy after hearing about the apartment. In arguing, he cited smoke inhalation and lack of oxygen to the child. However, the lawsuit alleges that a medical professional told her that the unborn child was not harmed by the fire.
According to the lawsuit, Holcomb was reluctant to have an abortion, but Taylor threatened to stop supporting her if she did not proceed with the procedure. After the miscarriage, she allegedly left Taylor and moved back to Portland to change her life. She became a devout Catholic, met her husband, and buried her past experiences with Taylor until she wrote about them in her book.
Holcomb says in the lawsuit that her life was further disrupted by the publication of Taylor’s memoir, which, without Holcomb’s consent, referred to a then-underage girl and made her “unintended defamation.” while framing the alleged abuse as “romantic, love”. affair,” the suit says. Taylor also spoke of an affair with an underage girl in his memoirs and in Aerosmith’s autobiography. Aerosmith’s autobiography, published in 1997, includes affairs, apartment burnings, and abortions. , but Taylor refers to the girl Diana and says she was 14 when she saw it. In her memoir, however, she says she was 16, and she writes about the fire but No abortion. In the lawsuit, Holcomb says she noted in the memoir confessions that she further removed her identity. (The confessions in the book include Julia Halcombwhich could be a misspelling of her name.)
“She was sixteen, she knew how to be naughty, and she didn’t have a hair on her,” Taylor wrote in his memoir before he became the girl’s bodyguard to avoid being caught if she caught them. Provide details about sexual endeavors. A few pages later. “My bad self who’s sixteen and she’s not old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just love her. She was a cute skinny little tomboy who dressed like little Bo Peep. She was my heart’s desire, my partner in crimes of passion.”
The lawsuit isn’t the first time Holcomb has shared these details about her alleged experience with Taylor. Before the complaint, she detailed many of the same allegations for the right-wing, anti-abortion website Lifesitenews in 2011, and she went on programs like The Tucker Carlson Show to share her experience as a pro-choice advocate. Holcomb also spoke about the experience in the 2021 documentary look the other way which focuses on sexual assault in rock music culture.
“I got lost in rock and roll culture. In Steven’s world it was sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but it didn’t seem any less chaotic than the world I left behind. I didn’t know it yet, but I Will barely make it out alive,” Holcomb wrote in 2011. “I couldn’t believe he was even asking me to have an abortion at this stage. He spent over an hour pressuring me to go ahead and have an abortion. He said I was too young to have an abortion. I gave birth to the baby and it must have been brain damaged because I was on fire and on drugs.”
Holcomb’s lawsuit comes in the final days of the California Child Victims Act, part of a 2019 law that lifted the statute of limitations and gave survivors of childhood sexual abuse three years to face their charges. Viewed period. The deadline to claim is December 31, 2022.
A representative for Taylor did not immediately respond Rolling StoneRequest for feedback.
New York has a law similar to the Adult Survivors Act, giving New Yorkers one year to file a complaint about sexual abuse allegedly experienced as an adult, unless the alleged incident occurred. Since last month’s enactment, two women have accused Rikard’s late chief executive, Ahmed Ertegun, of sexual assault in the 1980s and 1990s. California also passed legislation to lift the statute of limitations on adult rape cases for one year on January 1, 2023.
