Steven Tyler gains legal victory as LA court dismisses claims that his memoir caused ’emotional distress’ to sexual assault accuser

Steven Tyler faced a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse, sexual battery and more filed by Julia Misley in December 2022.

Now parts of the case against the 75-year-old rock star – who is dating Aimee Preston, 36 – have been dismissed by a Los Angeles court.

This week, the court ruled that it would withdraw the portions of Misley’s complaint that stated she suffered intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED), based on the publications of Tyler’s two memoirs.

Misley, whose last name was previously Holcomb, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager in the 1970s.

She alleged that the music legend used his fame and status to “groom, manipulate, exploit and sexually abuse” her.

Now parts of the case against the 75-year-old rock star have been dismissed by a Los Angeles court

She also claimed that he gave her drugs after gaining custody of her mother so he could take her on tour.

In his memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? Tyler wrote that he “almost took a teenage bride” after falling in love with a woman Holcomb claimed was her.

“She was sixteen, she knew how to bully, and she didn’t have a hair in it,” he wrote in the book, which calls the girl “Diana.”

Another excerpt reads: “I went to her parents’ house for a few nights and her parents fell in love with me, signed papers for me to get custody so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of the house. stands. I took her on tour.”

Misley said the publication “retraumatized” her and her family, saying in a statement, “I am grateful for this new opportunity to take action and be heard.”

The complaint stated that Misley met Tyler in 1973 after attending an Aerosmith concert in Oregon.

She was then invited backstage and later to Tyler’s hotel room, where she accused the musician of sexually assaulting her.

He then allegedly flew her to an Aerosmith concert in Seattle, where he sexually assaulted her again.

The following year, Tyler met Misley’s mother and “convinced her to transfer custody of her daughter to him.”

In April 2023, Tyler told the court that he was Misley’s legal guardian at the time, granting him immunity from related laws past and present.

Julia Misley, formerly known as Holcomb, filed a lawsuit over a year ago accusing Steven Tyler of abusing her as a teenager

Tyler performing with his band Aerosmith in the 1970s

The court’s dismissal comes weeks after another civil lawsuit accusing the Aerosmith frontman of sexually assaulting a teenage model nearly 50 years ago was dismissed by a New York judge. TMZ.

In the November filing, plaintiff Jeanne Bellino claimed that Tyler forcibly kissed, groped and drugged her in 1975, when she was 17 and he was 27.

Bellino said the alleged attack cost her her lifee-lung bodily injury and she sought unspecified damages.

The lawsuit could be filed against Tyler due to NYC’s extended statute of limitations at gend-based violence.

But a judge ruled that the alleged abuse, while distressing, was not ‘pBellino alleged a serious risk of bodily harm and the lawsuit was dismissed.

She had until Wednesday March 13 to amend her complaint.