A woman who has long claimed Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler made her abort their baby in the 1970s when she was just 17 has sued the musician under a California law that is set to expire Saturday.
The suit, filed by Julia Holcomb in Los Angeles and first reported by Rolling Stone, does not name Tyler directly, but quotes his 2011 memoir in which he described the relationship.
Holcomb has previously told her story, but under the California law that tolls the statute of limitations for certain sexual abuse crimes, she had just days remaining to sue or take legal action against Tyler.
“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 wrote, referring to the girl as “Diana.” “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 claims that she met Tyler at a Portland, Oregon, concert in 1973, just after she turned 16. She claims that after the show, she went to the singer’s hotel room. The suit alleges that this would be the beginning of a three-year affair fueled by drugs, which Tyler allegedly conducted with the blessing of Holcomb’s mother.
The claims line up with Tyler’s own writings, after his book said 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.
Holcomb claims she became pregnant in 1975, but that he pressured her into an abortion following a fire in her apartment, telling her the baby may have been injured in utero.
Holcomb later converted to Catholicism, becoming a pro-life activist. In 2020, Holcomb appeared on Fox News where she told her story to Tucker Carlson.
“I met Steven Tyler when I was just 16 years old, and he became my legal guardian,” she said. “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.”
Holcomb’s lawsuit was filed under the California’s Child Victims Act, a law that allowed for a three-year window, ending on Dec. 31, for filing civil suit involving alleged child sexual abuse.
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