Steven Tyler wants trial to proceed on time, denies wrongdoing in sexual assault case

Steven Tyler wants his sexual assault trial to proceed on time instead of having delays.

According to Billboard, the rockstar wants the case against him to go forward this fall as scheduled; however, the jury trial for the lawsuit has been postponed by several months.

Tyler, who has been accused of alleged sexual assault in the 1970s, says he wants his “day in court” rather than have the case “continue to drag on.” The case, which was supposed to go on trial this October, was filed by Julia Misley, who claimed that he “groomed” and “manipulated” her as a teenager decades ago.

Tyler's lawyer, David Long-Daniels stated:

“For the past two and a half years, Tyler has been diligently preparing for and awaiting his day in court to defend against Plaintiff’s unmeritorious accusations. Tyler deserves to see this matter resolved on the current trial timeline, so that it may have his day in court and not have this case continue to drag on.”

Assault allegations against Steven Tyler

Julia sued Tyler in 2022, claiming she was allegedly the unnamed person referred to in his memoir as a “teen bride” he almost married. She reportedly claimed that he used his fame to control her, including signing an agreement with her parents to take legal guardianship, and from then on started sexually assaulting her for three years, starting in 1973 at the age of 16.

According to her, he also insisted that she get an abortion in 1975 when she was 17 and pregnant with his child. In response to this, Steven Tyler and his defence team have denied the allegations, stating that it was a consensual romantic relationship between the two. Furthermore, Tyler’s attorney Shawn Holley stated that Misley “has not suffered any injury or damage as a result of any action by Defendant,” and that “if it is determined that Plaintiff has been damaged, then any such damages were not caused by Defendant.”

Misley’s attorney, Jeff Anderson, stated in response to Tyler’s denial, baffled by the denial from Steven Tyler.

“He’s heaping more pain on Misley and gaslighting her by falsely claiming that she ‘consented’ and that the pain he inflicted was ‘justified and in good faith. Never have we encountered a legal defense as obnoxious and potentially dangerous as the one that Tyler and his lawyers launched this week: Their claim that legal guardianship is consent and permission for sexual abuse.”

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