Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler has won a legal victory in his ongoing lawsuit over the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl he was involved with in the 1970s.
Tyler, 78, has previously denied allegations from Julia Misley, who says she was 16 years old when the singer allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted her.
With a trial scheduled for September 21, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia A. Young dismissed a number of claims Misley filed that were still in the case last Friday.
The judge ruled against Misley’s request to suppress evidence that she had consented in her relationship with Tyler, according to legal documents reviewed by the Daily Mail.
Under the judge’s ruling, she was also barred from speaking about an alleged abortion during her time with Tyler, and “alleged sexual assaults after the age of 18.”
The Daily Mail has reached out to Tyler’s representatives for further comment but has not yet heard back.
Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler scored a legal victory in his ongoing lawsuit over the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl he was involved with in the 1970s; seen in February
Tyler, 78, has previously denied allegations from Julia Misley, who says she was 16 years old when the singer allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted her; Tyler seen in 1978
The judge said Misley was allowed to present evidence that drugs and alcohol were consumed in incidents that occurred in California, the ruling said.
In the ruling, the judge said Misley cannot claim that she was “forced” to stay with Tyler, or that he was “forced to [her with] education, medical treatment or food as her legal guardian.”
She can provide evidence that Tyler “introduced himself as her guardian”; whether he had “made promises to care for her” or “how she felt about her circumstances at the time,” the ruling said.
Misley also cannot describe Tyler “as a human trafficker, sex slave owner, Nazi, someone guilty of war crimes, and equate what happened here with the Holocaust,” the judge ruled.
Misley can describe the alleged interactions with Tyler as “unlawful sexual intercourse” instead of using the term “statutory rape,” the judge ruled.
The judge ruled that Misley is prohibited from referring to Tyler as a “rapist” unless sufficient evidence is presented to support the claim.
Misley cannot call Tyler “a criminal,” but can use the phrase in connection with behavior that violates the law, the judge ruled.
The latest developments in the case come three months after the judge previously dismissed several claims in the case against the rock singer.
The judge in a number of states has dismissed all claims about the three-year relationship except those related to a one-time visit to California based on an alleged 1974 incident involving Tyler in a hot tub at a California hotel, according to the judge’s order reviewed by the Daily Mail.
The judge ruled against Misley’s request to suppress evidence that she had consented in her relationship with Tyler, as shown in legal documents reviewed by the Daily Mail; Tyler seen in 2023
“This is a huge victory for Steven Tyler,” Tyler’s attorney David Long-Daniels told the Daily Mail in a statement last May. “Today, the court dismissed with prejudice 99.9% of the claims against Mr. Tyler in this case.
“The court has decided that only one night, more than fifty years ago, can survive a three-year relationship.”
A judge had previously noted Massachusetts’ statute of limitations on April 28 in dismissing a significant portion of the case, as the rock singer lived there with Misley (who was then known as Julia Holcomb) during the three-year span they were linked.
The relationship, which moved from Massachusetts to other states while Tyler toured the country with Aerosmith, left part of the case under California’s Child Victims Act.
Misley said in her first lawsuit in 2022 in Southern California that the Janie’s Got a Gun singer “used his role, status and power as a well-known musician and rock star” to sexually abuse her, according to legal documents reviewed by the court. Los Angeles Times.
In the civil suit, Misley originally accused the Dream On singer of sexual assault and battery, as well as intentional infliction of emotional distress, dating back to when she was a teenager in the 1970s.
Misley filed the lawsuit days before the December 31, 2022 deadline to fall under the umbrella of California’s Child Victims Act.
The Love in an Elevator artist was photographed at an event on March 31 in LA
The legislation suspended the statute of limitations for people to report sexual abuse crimes committed against them when they were minors.
Misley said in her legal complaint that she and Tyler first crossed paths at an Aerosmith concert in 1973, when he was about 25 years old and she was 16.
Sources close to Tyler told the Daily Mail that Misley’s “recollection of what happened that one night more than fifty years ago is demonstrably inaccurate.”
They added: “The remaining allegation relates to one night in California, and we look forward to investigating that one matter.”
The following year, Tyler gained custody of her and she began traveling with him, Misley said in her lawsuit.
Misley said in a previous complaint that after Tyler persuaded her mother to grant him custody of her at age 16, she was “powerless to resist” the singer, who had “power, fame and substantial financial capabilities.”
Sources close to Tyler pushed back on that idea to the Daily Mail, saying that “it is well known that Steven … was in a consensual, loving relationship” with Misley for many years.
Tyler said in his 2011 book Does the noise in my head bother you? that, according to the court, he almost ‘brought a teenage bride’ in his past.
The rock staple said in the memoir, “She was sixteen, she knew how to be dirty…with my bad twenty-six self and her barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just fell madly in love with her.”
He wrote that “her parents fell in love with me and signed a document giving me custody so I wouldn’t be arrested if I took her out of state.”
Misley said in her first legal filing that she became pregnant by Tyler in 1975 and that he persuaded her to have an abortion based on inaccurate information about the possible health of the unborn child.
After the abortion, Misley said she moved back home, got married and embraced religion.
Misley’s attorney Jeff Anderson told The Los Angeles Times that the looming lawsuit “reflects Ms. Misley’s years of resilience and courage, driven by an unwavering pursuit of truth and justice,” adding, “It is time for justice and for Tyler to be held accountable by a jury.”
