Former teenage model couldn’t recover damages from the 76-year-old under a 2000 New York City law protecting victims of gender-motivated violence.
A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed for good a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one day in the mid-1970s.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Jeanne Bellino cannot recover damages from the 76-year-old Tyler under a 2000 New York City law protecting victims of gender-motivated violence.
Tyler had “vehemently” denied Bellino’s allegations, which included that he assaulted her in a phone booth as others in his entourage stood by laughing, and later assaulted her in a hotel. The alleged assaults occurred in the summer of 1975, when Bellino was 17 and Tyler was 27.