Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose made a massive legal move after a former model named him in a sexual assault lawsuit.
RadarOnline.com cited the court documents Rose filed in response to the sexual assault and battery case filed by Sheila Kennedy in 2023. The former model accused the musician of sexually assaulting her in a New York City hotel in 1989.
Axl Rose Asks Court To Dismiss the Case
As stated in the legal documents, Rose denied all the allegations Kennedy made against him and requested the court to dismiss the lawsuit.
According to the singer, the Penthouse's Pet of the Year in 1983 "repeatedly acknowledged" that he never sexually assaulted her - contradicting her latest claims.
"In her 2016 self-authored memoir, No One's Pet, Kennedy described the alleged incident in the Complaint as consensual sex, and specifically noted: I was okay with this. I had wanted to be with him since the minute I'd first laid eyes on him, and now I was getting him,'" Rose's lawyer wrote in the legal documents.
The representative continued, "In an interview for the 2021 documentary Look Away, Kennedy described the alleged sexual encounter this way: '[i]t was consented"; Rose was 'not trying to hurt me'; and Rose acted 'gently.' Kennedy reiterated: 'It was okay. He was fine. ... I did not consider it rape. It was consensual.'"
Rose branded Kennedy's filing of the lawsuit as an "attempt to rewrite history" due to New York's Adult Survivors Act, which allowed victims to file legal cases past the statute of limitations.
His lawyer added that Kennedy used the act in an alleged attempt to profit from the rocker after more than three decades.
What To Know About Sheila Kennedy's Filing Against Axl Rose
Kennedy brought the legal filing on November 22, 2023, recalling the time they met at a local nightclub before the alleged incident. She accused Rose of using his fame and celebrity status to sexually assault her.
The former model claimed the Guns N' Roses singer grabbed her by the hair and dragged her back to the bedroom before forcibly penetrating her private parts without her consent.
The alleged incident reportedly left her with "lifelong emotional, physical, psychological, and financial impacts," thus, she sought compensatory damages and other fees.
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