A US judge on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, dismissed a lawsuit that accused the Aerosmith frontman, Steven Tylerthat he sexually assaulted a former teenage model twice in one day in Manhattan nearly 50 years ago.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said Jeanne Bellino waited too long to sue Tyler, 75, who strongly denied her allegations, under a New York law that protects victims of gender-motivated violence, according to the “Guardians”.

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And in a ruling that could affect other cases, Kaplan said two state laws, the Child Victims Act and the Adult Survivors Act, preempted Bellino’s claim.

Bellino was a teenager working a fashion show in Manhattan in the summer of 1975 when she claims a friend arranged for her to meet Steven Tyler at a nearby hotel. In her lawsuit, she claims the singer, then about 27, sexually assaulted her twice, once in a phone booth and later at the hotel.

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The singer of the legendary rock group is also facing another lawsuit for sexual abuse against a woman, who was a minor at the time. The events, according to the complaint, occurred in the 1970s, when the plaintiff, named Julia Holcomb Misley, was 16 years old and Tyler was 25 years old. Misley claims that the singer, in addition to assaulting her, intentionally caused her emotional distress.

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In fact, the woman presented as proof of her accusation Steven Tyler’s own memoirs, where he claims that he “almost married a teenage girl” and that “her parents fell in love with me, they signed a document for me to have custody so that I would not get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her with me on tour.”