According to a source, that got the court documents, a woman sued Steven Tyler in Los Angeles, claiming that he sexually assaulted her when she was a child in the 1970s.
The source says that the accuser, Julie Holcomb, did not name Steven Tyler in her lawsuit. Instead, she called the defendants “Defendant Doe 1” and “Defendant Does 2 through 50.” But the source said that the documents had details that were clearly about Steven Tyler, like direct quotes from his 1997 autobiography.
Holcomb is said to have said in her lawsuit that she met Tyler at an Aerosmith concert in Portland, Oregon, not long after she turned 16. Holcomb said she went back to Tyler’s hotel room with him, where the singer “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct on her” while he knew how old she was.
Holcomb’s lawsuit also claimed that Steven Tyler was granted guardianship over her, allowing her to live with him and cross state lines with him. Holcomb’s lawsuit said that during this time, Tyler sexually assaulted her, sexually battered her, and caused her emotional distress on purpose.
Her lawsuit says that she got pregnant with Tyler’s child when she was 17, but Tyler pushed her to have an abortion even though she didn’t want one. She claimed that Tyler had threatened to stop giving her money and had persuaded her that the baby had suffered harm from breathing in smoke from an apartment fire.
Holcomb has talked and written in the past about what she says about Tyler. In an essay she wrote in 2011, Holcomb talked about how Tyler put pressure on her to end her five-month pregnancy.
He said I had to have the abortion now. He said I was too far along to wait because it would be illegal for me to get an abortion in another week,
Holcomb wrote.
His guardianship of me complicated things further. I was subordinate to him as in a parent relationship and felt I had little control over my life.
The source said that Tyler’s own memoir has some of the same information that Holcomb’s lawsuit does. Tyler’s rumored memoir says that he “almost took a teen bride” and that “her parents fell in love with me and signed a paper giving me custody so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state.” It is said that the memoir talks about the apartment fire and the abortion, but he said that the girl he was with was named Diana and was 14 when they met.
A source asked Tyler for a comment, but his representative did not respond right away.
If you have experienced sexual assault, you can get support by calling the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673) or visiting its website.
