{"id":620456,"date":"2026-05-03T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620456\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:33:08","slug":"child-sexual-assault-lawsuit-which-aerosmiths-steven-tyler-hoped-to-get-dismissed-is-heading-for-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620456\/","title":{"rendered":"Child sexual assault lawsuit which Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler hoped to get dismissed is heading for trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aerosmith<\/a> singer Steven Tyler is set for trial in August in a child sexual assault lawsuit first filed in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit filed by Julia Misley \u2013 formerly known as Julia Holcomb \u2013 included charges of sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n

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Misley alleged that Tyler coerced and persuaded her into believing that their three-year relationship, which began in 1973, was a \u201cromantic love affair.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She said that she hoped the lawsuit would expose the corrupt nature of the entertainment industry, and hold those who have exploited and allowed exploitation to occur accountable.<\/p>\n

This week, a judge dismissed the majority of the lawsuit under statutes of limitations \u2013 meaning too much time had passed since the alleged crimes were committed.<\/p>\n

Tyler and Misley lived in Massachusetts during their three-year relationship. As per the state’s statute of limitations rules, all of the charges alleged to have taken place there have now been thrown out.<\/p>\n

But Tyler, 78, will go to trial on August 31 at Los Angeles County Superior Court on a part of the case.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports that California’s “lookback window” allows alleged victims to file lawsuits regardless of a statute of limitations.<\/p>\n

Tyler allegedly crossed state lines with Misley, including to California. He was 26 at the time, while she 16. The age of consent in California was, and still is, 18.<\/p>\n

On the news that the judge had dismissed most of the case, Tyler’s lawyer David Long-Daniels, says: “This is a massive win for Steven Tyler. Today, the Court has dismissed with prejudice 99.9% of the claims against Mr. Tyler in this case.<\/p>\n

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“The court has decided that only one night, 50-plus years ago, out of a three-year relationship is allowed to remain.”<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges Misley fell pregnant with Tyler’s child and that she was pressured into having an abortion.<\/p>\n

It also claims that Tyler wrote about their relationship in his 2011 memoir, writing: “She was 16, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn\u2019t a hair on it … with my bad self being 26 and she barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just fell madly in love with her.<\/p>\n

“She was my heart\u2019s desire, my partner in crimes of passion. \u2026 I was so in love I almost took a teen bride. I went and slept at her parent\u2019s house for a couple of nights and her parent\u2019s fell in love with me, signed paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn\u2019t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour with me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is set for trial in August in a child sexual assault lawsuit first filed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-620456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}