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NewsNovember, 10 New Trial Date Set in Steve Tyler Abuse Lawsuit
Steve Tyler now has a date for the courtroom showdown in his long-running sex abuse lawsuit. The case, which accuses the Aerosmith frontman of abusing a minor back in the 1970s, is set to go to trial on 3 May. The fifth judge to handle the matter, Lawrence Riff, promised on Monday that he would guide it to a finish. His most recent predecessor, Patricia Young, left the case in September, only two weeks before a previously scheduled trial date. Speaking at a hearing in downtown Los Angeles, Riff added that he was open to revisiting rulings made by the judge before him. Lawyers for the plaintiff, Julia Misley, formerly known as Halcomb, signalled that they intend to contest a significant decision by Young. That ruling threw out Misley's claims tied to alleged misconduct in Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington, leaving only the California allegations standing. Misley filed the suit in December 2022. In it, she says Tyler abused her sexually over a period of years starting in 1973, when she was a high school student and he was 25. Tyler has denied the allegations. His position is that he and Misley lived together in Boston for most of their relationship, where the age of consent was 16. Misley says she was groomed into a relationship lasting three years, and that during that time Tyler became her legal guardian so she could travel with him. She has said that reading his memoir prompted a series of realisations about the trauma she had gone through. In his 2011 book, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, Tyler looked back on the guardianship arrangement. He wrote that he was so in love he almost took a teen bride, that he stayed at her parents' house for a couple of nights, and that her parents grew fond of him and signed papers giving him custody so he would not be arrested for taking her out of state.
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