A federal choose in Manhattan has dismissed for good a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage mannequin twice in at some point within the mid-Nineteen Seventies.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan mentioned Jeanne Bellino can not get well damages from the 76-year-old Tyler underneath a 2000 New York City regulation defending victims of gender-motivated violence.
He mentioned it will be futile to file an amended criticism, and dismissed Bellino’s case with prejudice, which means it can’t be introduced once more. Kaplan rejected an earlier criticism in February.
Lawyers for Bellino didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Tyler had “vehemently” denied Bellino’s allegations, which included that he assaulted her in a cellphone sales space as others in his entourage stood by laughing, and later assaulted her in a resort.
The alleged assaults occurred in the summertime of 1975, when Bellino was 17 and Tyler was 27.
Bellino mentioned she encountered Tyler after a good friend organized for her to fulfill Aerosmith following a Manhattan trend present.
Kaplan mentioned town regulation was not retroactive, and that Bellino’s battery declare would have expired on her nineteenth birthday.
He additionally mentioned two more moderen state legal guidelines, the Adult Survivors Act and Child Victims Act, didn’t revive Bellino’s declare.
The choose mentioned the primary regulation coated solely individuals who had been not less than 18 after they grow to be victims, and the second didn’t cowl claims filed after August 2021. Bellino sued in November 2023.
David Long-Daniels, a lawyer for Tyler, in an e mail mentioned Kaplan “fastidiously applied the facts to the law. That is all we can ask from any judge. We are particularly happy for Steven and his family.”
Tyler has additionally defended in opposition to a lawsuit in Los Angeles, the place the plaintiff 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.
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