Steven Tyler is demanding a six-figure sum from his accuser after securing a small win in the sexual assault case.
The Aerosmith frontman hit back at Julia Misley, formerly known as Julia Holcomb, as he asked the court that the accuser should pay him to cover legal bills in the ongoing case. The woman sued Tyler in 2022 for sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress after an alleged incident at an Aerosmith concert when she was 16 and the rocker was 25.
In the new court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, the rocker demanded Misley award him $155,423 after the judge approved his team's motion to dismiss the emotional distress claim in March.
"These public statements-whatever their alleged impact on [Misley]-constitute quintessential protected speech. Moreover, they were made in 1997 and 2011-more than eleven years before her bringing suit," Tyler's legal team said in a statement. "[Misley] therefore recklessly caused Mr. Tyler to incur over $142,000 in legal fees to challenge her baseless claim, plus approximately $12,930 in additional fees for having to file this Motion and the anticipated reply and argument on this Motion."
Misley has yet to respond to Tyler's demand, but the win for the frontman happened after the accuser claimed the singer "performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct" at the time of the assault.
Tyler wrote in his 2011 memoir that he almost took a teen bride after the girl's parents reportedly fell in love with him.
According to Misley, she got pregnant with Tyler's child in 1975, but he asked her to terminate her pregnancy. They broke up afterward.
In January, Misley and her team responded to Tyler's attempt to dismiss her claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress in the sexual assault case.
She alleged that the singer published his book "his own profit and grotesque sense of prestige."
"Through these publications, Tyler identified [Holcomb] to the public and prompted [Holcomb] to realize the true extent of the psychological harm she had suffered as a result of his childhood sexual abuse of her," the accuser's lawyer said.
The filing continued, "To be clear: [Holcomb] is not suing Tyler because Tyler has exercised his right to free speech or petition; rather, [Holcomb] is suing Tyler because of the wildly disturbing and outrageous childhood sexual abuse Tyler perpetrated against [Holcomb]."
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