Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has argued that a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor should not use his memoir to recount their relationship in a lawsuit against him – reports TMZ.
Tyler, 75, was named in December in a lawsuit filed by a woman who has publicly identified herself as Julia Misley, who claims he sexually assaulted her when she was 16 and he was 25 in the 1970s.
In the legal filing, Misley accused the Dream On singer of sexual assault and assault, as well as intentional infliction of emotional distress, linked to when she was a teenager. Misley has claimed that she became pregnant with Tyler in 1975 at age 17 and that he forced her to have an abortion.
Tyler has denied all allegations of sexual assault and said his relationship with Misley (who was once known as Julia Holcomb) was consensual.
In legal documents obtained by TMZ, Tyler claims that the alleged distress Misley experienced in 2011 was not due to his memoir – Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? – is published, in which he used a pseudonym to describe their sexual relationship.
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has argued that a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor should not be allowed to use his memoir to recount their relationship in a lawsuit against him – reports TMZ (photo Nov 2022)
Tyler claims her grief was fueled by a Star Magazine article published months before the release of his memoir — and that he “on purpose” didn’t mention her in his memoir when discussing their relationship.
Tyler also says Misley has no problem using their relationship to “promote herself in the media.”
The documents also state that Misley waited 11 years to sue Tyler after the memoir’s release — saying Misley “is prevented from suing Tyler for intentional infliction of emotional distress because of a two-year statute of limitations on such claims.” .”
The legal documents also state that Tyler’s memoir is intended to share his own experiences from his own “newsworthy life” and that Misley’s deliberate infliction of emotional distress is therefore barred by the First Amendment.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Tyler’s representatives for comment.
Tyler was originally charged with sexually assaulting Holcomb in a December 2022 lawsuit.
Julia Misley has filed a lawsuit accusing Steven Tyler of molesting her as a teenager
Holcomb filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles in the dying days of a California law temporarily lifting the statute of limitations for such claims under a “look-back” window.
The suit, first reported by Rolling stonedid not name Tyler, identifying him as “defendant Doe,” but quoted directly from Tyler’s 2011 memoir detailing the relationship.
Holcomb has previously spoken publicly about her alleged relationship with the rock star.
Holcomb charged the music legend in the lawsuit with assault, assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, claiming he drugged her after gaining custody of her mother and pressuring her into having an abortion.
Though not named Holcomb, Tyler’s memoir described his roughly three-year sexual relationship with a teenage girl in the 1970s.
Tyler wrote in the book that he “almost took a teenage bride” and that “her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper that I got custody so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state.”
“With my twenty-six bad self and she barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just fell madly in love with her,” he wrote. “She was a cute skinny little tomboy dressed up as Little Bo Peep. She was my heart’s desire, my partner in crime passionnels.’
In legal documents obtained by TMZ, Tyler claims that the alleged distress Misley experienced in 2011 was not due to his memoir – Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? – is published, in which he used a pseudonym to describe their sexual relationship
Pictured: Tyler and Misley are photographed in California in 1975
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler performing live on stage at RFK Stadium in Washington DC in 1976. According to the lawsuit, Misley’s relationship with him lasted from 1973 to 1976
Holcomb’s lawsuit claims she met him in 1973, shortly after her 16th birthday, when she attended an Aerosmith concert in Portland, Oregon and returned to Tyler’s hotel room after the show.
The lawsuit alleges that after discussing Holcomb’s age, Tyler “committed various criminal sexual acts” to her.
According to the lawsuit, the relationship developed and Holcomb was “unable to resist Tyler’s power, fame and substantial financial means.”
In 1974, Tyler convinced Holcomb’s mother to grant him custody of her so they could travel across state lines, the lawsuit alleges, echoing Tyler’s memoir.
Although Tyler had promised to care for the teen and pay for her education and health care, “he instead continued to travel, assault, and provide alcohol and drugs to Plaintiff,” the lawsuit alleges.
The following year, Holcomb says she became pregnant with Tyler’s son when she was 17, but that he pressured her into having an abortion after an apartment fire, claiming the baby may have been injured from smoke inhalation.
Tyler mentions the fire in his memoir, but not the abortion. However, a 1997 autobiography by Aerosmith refers to a relationship with a teenage girl, the apartment fire, and an abortion.
Tyler told the court that he was Misley’s legal guardian at the time, giving him immunity from related laws, past and present.
In 1974, Tyler convinced Holcomb’s mother to grant him custody of her so they could travel across state lines, the lawsuit alleges, echoing Tyler’s memoir.
The Massachusetts resident requested that the court dismiss the case in its entirety.
Lawyers for Misley said the rock singer “gaslighted” their client and the court with his defense.
Misley “has not suffered any injury or damage as a result of any action by defendant,” Tyler’s attorneys said, “and if plaintiff is found to have suffered damages, then no such damages were caused by defendant.”
Misley said she moved back home after the abortion, got married and embraced religion.
Her attorney Jeff Anderson said Tyler’s responses were examples of “gaslighting” and that he “used sham legal custody to avoid prosecution for sex crimes” in the 1970s.
Anderson said, “He causes further pain to Misley and excites her by falsely claiming that she “consented” and that the pain he inflicted was “justifiable and in good faith.”
“Never have we come across a legal defense as obnoxious and potentially dangerous as Tyler and his attorneys this week: their claim that legal custody is consent and consent to sexual abuse.”