Weapons N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday over allegations that he sexually assaulted a Penthouse mannequin in 1989.
In a grievance filed Wednesday in New York court docket, attorneys for Sheila Kennedy declare that Rose “used his fame, standing, and energy as a star and performer within the music trade to realize entry to govern, management, and violently sexually assault” her.
The alleged assault – in a New York Metropolis resort room in February 1989 — has brought on her to endure “extreme emotional, bodily, monetary and psychological misery” ever since, Kennedy’s attorneys say.
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“Kennedy has skilled signs akin to post-traumatic stress dysfunction each time she hears Rose’s identify or the music of Weapons N’ Roses,” her attorneys wrote. “Different sexual encounters have drawn her proper again to the evening that Rose had assaulted her.”
A rep for Rose didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
The case in opposition to Rose is the most recent in a string of sexual misconduct lawsuits filed during the last month in opposition to males within the music trade, together with trade executives like L.A. Reid and celebrity artists like Sean “Diddy” Combs. The spike in instances is as a result of looming expiration on Thursday of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act, which created a one-year window for alleged survivors to take authorized motion over years-old accusations that will usually be barred underneath the statute of limitations.
In her grievance in opposition to Rose, Kennedy makes graphic allegations of sexual assault.
After first assembly the rock star at a nightclub, Kennedy says Rose invited her again to a celebration at his resort room, alongside together with his pal David Andrew “Riki” Rachtman and one other mannequin. After offering his company with “cocaine, champagne, and alcohol,” the lawsuit claims Rose then “pushed Kennedy in opposition to the wall and kissed her.”
“Kennedy discovered Rose engaging and didn’t thoughts this encounter,” her attorneys write. “She was open to sleeping with him if issues progressed and in the event that they continued to search out one another engaging.”
However Kennedy says the evening then obtained darker – first when she witnesses Rose having “painful” intercourse with the opposite mannequin, then when she thought he was encouraging group intercourse. After she exited the room, she claims Rose stormed right into a rage, dragged her again into the room, by her onto the mattress, and certain her palms.
“Rose then sexually assaulted Kennedy,” Kennedy’s attorneys write. “Rose forcibly penetrating Kennedy’s anus together with his penis. Rose made no try to ask for or examine that Kennedy was consenting. He handled her like property used solely for his sexual pleasure. He didn’t use a condom.”
Confronted with the continuing assault, Kennedy’s attorneys say she “felt she had no escape or exit and was compelled to acquiesce” to the assault. “She understood that the most secure factor to do was to lie in mattress and watch for Rose to complete assaulting her.”
Learn Kennedy’s full lawsuit right here:
