STORY: A U.S. decide has dismissed a sexual assault lawsuit in opposition to Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
The lawsuit alleged that Tyler had sexually assaulted former teenage mannequin Jeanne Bellino twice in in the future almost 50 years in the past.
A Manhattan District decide on Wednesday mentioned Bellino had waited too lengthy to sue the 75-year-old Tyler, who has denied the allegations.
Bellino mentioned she met Aerosmith in Manhattan in 1975 when she was 17.
She alleged that she was strolling down the road with Tyler, then 27, when he pushed her right into a cellphone sales space, groped her and put his tongue down her throat and later assaulted her once more on the Warwick Resort.
The decide mentioned Bellino didn’t qualify for a window to pursue claims that might in any other case prolong past statutes of limitations, as a result of she didn’t allege that Tyler’s conduct posed a “critical threat of bodily harm.”
A lawyer for Tyler mentioned they had been “grateful” for the consequence, whereas a lawyer for Bellino didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Tyler has additionally defended in opposition to a lawsuit in Los Angeles, the place one other lady, Julia Misley, claimed he sexually assaulted her in 1973 when she was 16 and he was 25.
The identical legislation agency that represented Bellino has additionally represented Misley in that case.
