Steven Tyler Accused Of Assaulting A Minor In The 1970s For A Second Time This Year

A second woman has stepped forward to say that Steven Tyler, the frontman of Aerosmith, assaulted her as a teenager.

The lawsuit was filed in New York on November 2.

The allegations stem from two same-day encounters in New York City, in 1975.

Plaintiff Jeanne Bellino seeks unspecified damages in the suit, which lists the cause of action as “gender-motivated violence.”

Bellino, who was 17 and a child model at the time, alleged that she met Tyler, 27 at the time, through a friend who had arranged to meet the band at a hotel after a fashion show that Bellino walked in.

From the hotel, Bellino and her friend followed Tyler and some of his friends down Sixth Avenue. Bellino says when she asked Tyler a question about a song lyric, he got upset and forced Bellimo into a nearby phone booth.

The lawsuit states, “While holding her captive, Tyler stuck his tongue down her throat, and put his hands upon her body … moving and removing clothing and pinning her against the wall of the phone booth.

Others stood by outside the phone booth laughing and as passersby watched and witnessed, nobody in the entourage intervened.”

Bellino finally managed to escape the phone booth. 

She stayed with the group, as she needed her friend for transportation.

Later, the group returned to the hotel. Bellino alleges that near the hotel bar, Tyler forcibly kissed her and ground against her while she tried to resist his advances.

He then allegedly whispered in her ear that he was “going in the room to do something quick,” and he’d call her to come to the room after.

When he called her, Bellino said she “couldn’t talk and was paralyzed.” A doorman who had witnessed the encounter near the bar helped her hail a cab. At home, she told her sister all the allegations.

Bellino’s accusations follow those of Julia Misely (formerly Julia Holcomb), who sued Tyler a year earlier for sexual assault when she was a teenager in the 1970s. She claimed that Tyler, 27 at the time, had begun to date her shortly after her 16th birthday. Her mother signed over her guardianship to Tyler, and the two moved in together into Tyler’s Boston home. 

Misely soon became pregnant, but after their house caught on fire, she ended up in the hospital, where Tyler allegedly forced her to have an abortion. Tyler and his attorneys denied these allegations.