Like leaves in autumn, one by one our idols from past decades are falling. Today it is the turn of Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, who is being accused for the second time of sexual assault against minors. Yesterday, according to information from Rolling Stone magazine, a woman named Jeanne Bellino filed a lawsuit in New York against the rockstar for a sexual assault committed in 1975, when she was 17 years old and he was 27. According to Bellino’s testimony, it was precisely in New York City where she met Tyler, at the Warwick Hotel.
A public humiliation
Bellino relates that the group and other people close to her were walking down Sixth Avenue when Tyler forced her into a telephone booth where he held her captive while she stuck his tongue down her throat, and touched her body, breasts, glutes, and genitals:
“While Tyler groped and groped the plaintiff, pretending to have sexual relations with her. Others stood outside the phone booth laughing and while passersby watched and witnessed, no one intervened.”
This is how Bellino’s defense team relates to the event. They also reported that the victim freed himself from the situation by pulling the singer’s hair and hitting him with his knee, actions to which Tyler’s team reacted only with laughter. But things didn’t stop there, there was a second attack at the hotel. Steven Tyler is also accused of inviting her into her room, forcibly kissing her, and hitting her. Bellino alleges that these two events, at such a young age, caused the following in her:
“Great mental and bodily pain, severe and permanent emotional distress, physical manifestations of emotional distress, shame, humiliation, and physical, personal and psychological injuries.”
It’s not the first time
A few months ago, Julia Misley, also known as Julia Holcomb, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against Steven Tyler, also accusing him of a sexual assault committed in the 1970s.
This story was written in Spanish by Carmen Guerrero in Cultura Colectiva
