Steven Tyler’s name has been removed from an upcoming gala where he was to be honored following a decades-long sexual assault allegation against the rocker.
The Aerosmith singer, 74, was originally listed as the celebrity honoree for Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Power of Love gala, but links to the original announcement of the honor have since disappeared. Las Vegas Review Magazine informed.
DailyMail.com has contacted Tyler’s managers and the organizers of the gala for comment.
Last month, Tyler was sued by Julia Holcomb, who claims he sexually abused her, administered drugs and alcohol and even pressured her to have an abortion, starting when she was just 16 and he was 25.
Missing: Steven Tyler, 74, has been removed from publicity materials for the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Power of Love gala in Las Vegas following allegations of sexual assault, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported; seen in 2019 in Los Angeles
The Review Journal notes that Tyler’s name does not appear on the Keep Memory Alive website’s link to the gala, which is scheduled for February 18 at the MGM Grand Garden.
He was announced in September as the highest-profile celebrity honoree at the event, while philanthropist John Paul DeJoria, who co-founded hair care company John Paul Mitchell Systems, would join him.
DeJoria’s name is still included in promotional materials, but the Tyler connection is now absent.
Despite Tyler’s disappearance from marketing materials, the gala organizers have not announced that he has been removed from the event.
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The Power of Love Gala helps raise funds to fight Alzheimer’s disease and help people affected by brain disease and their families.
Aerosmith recently canceled the final six shows of their Deuces Are Wild residency at Dolby Live in Las Vegas due to Tyler’s failing health, though the nature of his health issues has not been disclosed.
The frontman has been embroiled in controversy in recent days after a woman named Julia Holcomb filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles in recent days over a California law that temporarily lifts the statute of limitations on sexual assault allegations under a ‘look back’ window. which is now closed.
The lawsuit, first reported by Rolling Stonehe does not name Tyler, identifying him as ‘Defender Doe’, but directly cites Tyler’s 2011 memoir describing the relationship.
Serious charges: Julia Holcomb sued him in December for sexual assault (pictured)
Holcomb had already spoken publicly about his alleged relationship with the rock star.
In the lawsuit, she accuses the music legend of sexual assault, sexual battery and intentionally inflicting emotional distress, alleging that he drugged her after gaining conservatorship from her mother and pressured her to have an abortion.
A representative for Tyler did not immediately respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment.
Although he did not name Holcomb, Tyler’s memoir fondly described his approximately three-year sexual relationship with a teenage girl in the 1970s.
“She was sixteen, she knew how to be nasty and she didn’t have a hair,” Tyler wrote in the book, which names the girl “Diana.”
Tyler wrote in the book that he “almost married a teenager” and that “her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper for me to have custody, so they wouldn’t arrest me if I took her out of state.”
“With my bad twenty-six year old self and her barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I fell head over heels for her,” he wrote. ‘She was a cute skinny tomboy dressed as Little Bo Peep. She was my heart’s desire, my accomplice in crimes of passion.
His own words: The lawsuit does not name him, but cites portions of Tyler’s 2011 memoir in which he described a relationship with a 16-year-old girl when he was 20; seen in 1976
Holcomb’s lawsuit alleges that 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 claims that after discussing Holcomb’s age, Tyler “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct upon her.”
According to the lawsuit, the relationship progressed, and Holcomb was “unable to resist the power, fame, and substantial financial ability” of Tyler.
In 1974, Tyler convinced Holcomb’s mother to grant him guardianship of her so they could travel across state lines, the lawsuit alleges, echoing Tyler’s memoir.
Although Tyler had promised to take care of the teen and pay for her education and medical care, “instead, he continued to travel, assault, and supply plaintiff with alcohol and drugs,” the lawsuit states.
Under her thumb: The lawsuit says Holcomb’s relationship with him lasted from 1973 to 1976. She accuses him of sexual assault, harassing her with drugs and pressuring her to get an abortion; seen in 2005
The following year, Holcomb says she became pregnant with Tyler’s child when she was 17, but that he pressured her to have an abortion after an apartment fire, claiming the baby might have been injured by smoke inhalation.
Tyler mentions the fire in his memoir, but not the abortion. However, a 1997 Aerosmith autobiography references a relationship with a teenage girl, the apartment fire, and an abortion.
Holcomb converted to Catholicism after her alleged relationship with Tyler and became an anti-abortion activist who has repeatedly spoken out about her experience.
In 2011, after Tyler published her memoir, she wrote an essay for the anti-abortion website LifeSiteNews.com, claiming that Tyler snorted cocaine at her bedside during her abortion.
In charge: In 1974, Tyler convinced Holcomb’s mother to grant him guardianship of her so they could travel across state lines, the lawsuit alleges, echoing Tyler’s memoirs; seen in 1978
Holcomb also appeared in foxnews in 2020, telling host Tucker Carlson about the alleged relationship and the abortion.
“I met Steven Tyler when I was just 16 years old and he became my legal guardian,” she said in the interview.
“He made the decision that he wanted me to have an abortion…and really no matter how I begged him to keep my baby, that decision was really not going to be in my hands.”
The lawsuit was filed under the California Child Victims Act, which created a three-year window to file civil lawsuits for child sexual abuse claims. The window expired on December 31, 2022.