Aerosmith rock band singer Steven Tyler could be heading to the big house.
A woman who has claimed for years the rock legend made her abort their baby in the 1970s when she was just 17 has sued the rock star under a California law.
The suit, filed by Julia Holcomb in Los Angeles was first reported by Rolling Stone, it does not specifically name Tyler, but quotes his 2011 memoir, in which he described the relationship.
“With my bad self being twenty-six and she barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just fell madly in love with her,” Tyler, who referred to the girl as “Diana,” wrote. “She was a cute skinny little tomboy dressed up as Little Bo Peep. She was my heart's desire, my partner in crimes of passion.”
Holcomb said met Tyler after an Oregon Aerosmith concert not long after she turned 16. She claims she followed him to Seattle as their sexual relationship continued. Tyler allegedly obtained guardianship around 1974.
Holcomb previously aired her story during an interview with Fox News Tucker Carlson but had just days remaining to sue under the state law that tolls the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse crimes.
According to The Daily Wire, the lawsuit was filed under California's Child Victims Act, a law that allows for a three-year window, ending on Dec. 31, for filing a civil suit involving alleged child sexual abuse.
The claims line up with Tyler's admissions in the book that he “almost took a teen bride” whose “parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn't get arrested if I took her out of state.” In the lawsuit, Holcomb accuses Tyler of sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The same year Tyler released his memoir, Holcomb published her own account of his fight to obtain guardianship to the pro-life website LifeSiteNews.
“He had mentioned that he wanted guardianship papers so I could travel across state lines when he was on tour,” Holcomb wrote in 2011 on LifeSiteNews.com. “I had told him my mother would not sign me over to him. I asked him how he had got her to do it. He said, ‘I told her I needed them for you to enroll in school.'”
Holcomb claims she became pregnant in 1975 with Tyler's child after he reportedly threw her birth control off the balcony of a hotel room. However, the singer pressured her into an abortion after a fire in her apartment when she was five months pregnant, telling her the baby might have been injured in utero.
Later in life Holcomb converted to Catholicism and has become a pro-life activist.
“I met Steven Tyler when I was just 16 years old, and he became my legal guardian,” she told Carlson in 2020. “He made the decision that he wanted me to have an abortion…and it didn't really matter how I begged to keep my baby, that decision really wasn't going to be in my hands.”
Tyler, now 74, has yet to speak out over the claims. The singer “voluntarily” checked into rehab in May.
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Well duh he had a thing for children his whole life. And the way he treated his daughters like girlfriends was always creepy
saw him once at the old fillmore east, he was the opening act #3, and almost the entire theatre spent that time partying in the ladies lounge, we didn’t miss anything!!!
Where is the #MeToo movement? Why are they not speaking out regarding rock star Steven Tyler and actor Warren Beatty, who are facing these last-minute, eleventh-hour allegations by women who were underage at the time of the alleged assaults and have only a short time under California law to hold their alleged sexual abusers responsible for acts of statutory rape with minors who could not give consent.
Tyler seems to have already put it in writing in his memoirs, and Beatty has remained silent.
But there are many more men who should face justice, including any of those men who cavorted with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who were known sex traffickers of young girls aboard the “Lolita Express.” We all know their names by now, but will we as a nation hold these rich and powerful men responsible for their alleged heinous crime against underaged girls? Statutory rape is still a crime in most states. Why the delay?
So, this is quite interesting. The problem here is that it happened 50 years ago! So, it’s just too long ago for me to even consider any consequences now. If this woman were really a Christian then she would let this go. It’s just been way too long!
They’ll like him in prison!
I do not agree with what has happened here. There is a very long list of people that let this happen. Parents start with them then onto the venues, security, police, hotels, band and all those other bands the lists go on and on Jimmy Page, Jerry Lee Louis yes even Elvis but most of all Us the Government change the rules check the IDs over and over. Not the ok and move on. Even restrooms bars and patents need to be checked for at least Guardian like a theater everywhere. Search a bag but not check for minors bad Idea. All goes back to laws and adults involved. Don’t even get me started on the drugs and all that just slides by too.
In the real world they call that a no,no,statutory rape is just not ok, anymore,can be very costly,even if she is your sweetheart,the state don’t really care.