Published February 22,2024
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A U.S. choose on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage mannequin twice in sooner or later in Manhattan almost 50 years in the past.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan mentioned Jeanne Bellino waited too lengthy to sue the 75-year-old Tyler, who has “vehemently” denied her allegations, below a New York City regulation defending victims of gender-motivated violence.
The choose mentioned Bellino didn’t qualify for a two-year window to pursue claims that will in any other case prolong past statutes of limitations, as a result of she didn’t allege that Tyler’s conduct posed a “serious risk of physical injury.”
And in a ruling that would have an effect on different instances, Kaplan mentioned two state legal guidelines, the Child Victims Act and Adult Survivors Act, preempted Bellino’s declare, “substantially for the reasons” given by Tyler’s attorneys.
The attorneys mentioned these legal guidelines, whose home windows to sue have expired, “occupy the field regarding the revival of claims derived from state penal sexual assault law,” and Bellino confirmed a “lack of diligence” by not suing below the Child Victims Act.
A lawyer for Bellino didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
David Long-Daniels, a lawyer for Tyler, mentioned: “We agree with the judge’s reasoning, and are grateful for this result on behalf of our client.”
Bellino mentioned she was 17 in the summertime of 1975 when a good friend organized for her to satisfy Aerosmith after a Manhattan vogue present.
She alleged that as she walked down the road with Tyler and his entourage, Tyler, then 27, compelled her right into a telephone sales space the place he groped her, engaged in simulated intercourse and put his tongue down her throat, as others stood by laughing.
Bellino mentioned that as a result of she was sharing prices with the good friend to journey house to Queens, she went with the entourage to the Warwick Hotel, the place Tyler allegedly pinned her towards a properly and once more assaulted her.
Tyler has additionally defended towards a lawsuit in Los Angeles, the place one other girl, Julia Misley, claimed he sexually assaulted her in 1973 when she was 16 and he was 25. Bellino’s regulation agency has represented Misley in that case.
Tyler’s given identify is Steven Tallarico. Bellino’s case is Bellino v Tallarico, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 24-00712.
Source: www.anews.com.tr