Steven Tyler in New York City in May 2016.Photo:Theo Wargo/Getty
Theo Wargo/Getty
A second woman has filed asexual assault lawsuitagainstSteven Tyler, alleging the Aerosmith rocker assaulted her twice in one day when she was a teenager in 1975.
Jeanne Bellino filed a complaint against Tyler, 75, in New York on Thursday, claiming she suffered “physical, psychological and emotional injuries” after the musician groped, kissed and simulated sex without her consent.
“Jeanne is now 66 years old and suffered in silence and humiliated shame for so many years, and had the courage to now tell her story,” her attorney Jeff Anderson tells PEOPLE. “As horrific as it is, it’s powerful, and she wanted Latina women and girls to know they can stand up and speak out.”
A rep for Tyler, as well as an attorney, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Eventually, Bellino, who says she was around 17 years old at the time, and her friend met up with Tyler, then around 27, and his entourage, and the group walked together down 6th Avenue.
Steven Tyler performing in Philadelphia in September 2023.Lisa Lake/Getty
Lisa Lake/Getty
The complaint alleges that Tyler “stuck his tongue down her throat” while “holding her captive” in the booth, and “put his hands upon her body, her breasts, her buttocks and her genitals, moving and removing clothing and pinning her against the wall of the phone booth.”
Bellino says she tried to fight back against the “much stronger” Tyler despite weighing just 115 lbs., and that she eventually freed her right arm and grabbed the back of his head, pulling on his hair and raising her knee. He allegedly stopped the encounter “suddenly” and left the phone booth.
Afterward, the complaint says, a “dazed, confused and shocked” Bellino went with her friend back to the hotel because she had no way to get home. As the group entered the hotel through a bar entrance, Tyler allegedly pinned Bellino against the wall, “put his tongue down her throat and started humping [Bellino], simulating sex.”
Steven Tyler in 1976.Fin Costello/Redferns
At that point, Bellino got into a cab outside with the help of a doorman, and the driver allowed her to go back to Queens even though she could not pay the full fare. She says that upon returning home, she cried “uncontrollably” as she shared her experience with her sister.
The complaint says that as a result of the incident, Bellino suffered “severe and permanent emotional distress, physical manifestations of emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, physical, personal and psychological injuries.”
In April, Tylerrequested the lawsuit be dismissed, alleging that Misley consented to their sexual relationship, and that he had immunity as her legal guardian at the time the events allegedly occurred (Her lawyer suggested Tyler was “gaslighting” her).
Then in May, the rocker’s legal team filed documents claiming Misleycannot use his memoirs as causefor “emotional distress” in court, as the book is “free speech” and he does not identify her in his writing.
Tyler is currently healing from a fractured larynx; Aerosmithpostponed their farewell tourin September due to the setback.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.
source: people.com
