Source: rollingstone.com 1/28/26
The Aerosmith musician asked the court to dismiss the entire lawsuit, saying he lived with Julia Misley in Boston during their relationship, where the age of consent was 16
After a series of hearings, a judge said Wednesday that the California-based claims in the child sex abuse lawsuit brought by Julia Misley against Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler would survive a challenge and proceed to trial. But in a partial victory for Tyler, the judge said she would toss out Misley’s separate claims tied to alleged abuse in Oregon, Washington, and Massachusetts.
“I have clearly signaled how I intend [to rule],” Los Angeles County Judge Patricia A. Young said from the bench, promising a written decision in the coming days. “I’m not moving the trial.”
The judge was so explicit about her views that Misley’s lead lawyer at one point suggested that his side could simply file an amended complaint limited to claims arising in California, in an effort to “streamline the process.” But the judge said she was more inclined to grant Tyler’s motion to terminate the non-California claims, which would bar them from being refiled. She asked for additional time, explaining that she needed to craft a tailored ruling that could narrow the lawsuit’s causes of action — sexual battery, sexual assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress — without dismissing them altogether. Such rulings typically dismiss entire causes of action, not portions of them.
In her lawsuit initially filed in December 2022 and first reported by Rolling Stone, Misley claimed that Tyler sexually abused her for years beginning in 1973, when she was a…
In the age of hedonism, groupies are on the prowl for their actions from yesteryear…all the big name bands of then better get some money to their attys on retainer if this flies successfully through the courts. Of course, the lead singer should’ve kept his mouth shut initially…
Had Aerosmith and Tyler not made it big, I seriously doubt this woman would be reclassifying her relationship back then – likely with enthusiasm and apparently supported by her parents – as abuse.