A sexual assault case against Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been thrown out by a US judge who ruled that the singer's alleged actions at the time, back in 1975, did not pose “serious risk of physical injury” to the plaintiff.
The lawsuit against Tyler, filed in November last year under New York City's Victim of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, was brought by former model Jeanne Bellino, who was 17 at the time she met Tyler, who was then 27. Bellino claims that the singer pushed her into a phone booth as the pair walked down New York's Sixth Avenue with Tyler's entourage, and assaulted her.
The claim filed by Bellino's legal team, stated: “While holding her captive, Tyler stuck his tongue down her throat, and put his hands upon her body, her breasts, her buttocks and her genitals, moving and removing clothing and pinning her against the wall of the phone booth .As Tyler was mauling and groping Plaintiff, he was humping her pretending to have sex with Plaintiff. Others stood by outside the phone booth laughing and as passersby watched and witnessed, nobody in the entourage intervened.”
