Guns N’Roses leader Axl Rose targeted by sexual assault complaint – Libération

2023-11-22 20:56:34

Violence against women

Sexual violence file It was Sheila Kennedy, an American model, who sued the rock star this Wednesday, November 22, for facts which allegedly occurred in 1989 in New York.

The #MeToo of rock continues to make headway. After Marylin Manson and Till Lindemann, singer of the German group Rammstein, it is the turn of the leader of the American hard rock group Guns N’Roses Axl Rose to be the subject of accusations for sexual violence. A complaint was filed against William Bruce Rose (real name) by Sheila Kennedy, an American model and actress.

According to this civil complaint filed in New York on November 22, Axl Rose, now 62 years old, is responsible for “sexual assault” and “violence” against this woman, who is the same age as her attacker. presumed. The facts allegedly occurred in 1989 in a New York hotel room, after a meeting in a nightclub.

“Rose used her fame”

“Rose had targeted Kennedy in 1989 when he was at the height of his commercial success” with the group Guns N’Roses, formed in 1984 and inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, supports the complaint targeted by justice new -york. “Rose used her fame, status and power as a celebrity and artist in the music industry to be able to manipulate, control and sexually and violently assault Kennedy,” according to the complaint before the court. Supreme Court of the State of New York for the City of New York, a trial court. “As a result of Rose’s sexual assault, Kennedy suffered emotional, physical, financial and psychological distress,” the document further notes.

This civil legal action is made possible by a New York State law which since November 2022, but only for one year, allows victims of sexual violence to file a civil complaint for prescribed criminal or tort acts. Friday evening, American hip-hop star Sean Combs, Puff Daddy on stage, and his ex-partner Casandra Ventura, alias Cassie, reached an “amicable” agreement the day after a civil complaint against him for rape and violence between 2005 and 2018 filed thanks to this legislation.