A brand new lawsuit accuses Weapons N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose of violently sexually assaulting a lady in a “unstable rage” in 1989.
The civil lawsuit from former “Penthouse” mannequin Sheila Kennedy alleges that Rose violently assaulted her in his New York lodge room in 1989 after the pair, each of their mid-20s on the time, met at a nightclub earlier within the night. In her lawsuit, Kennedy alleges a disturbing sequence of occasions by which Rose grew more and more aggressive as soon as they returned to his lodge room, dragging her throughout the ground bleeding earlier than forcibly penetrating her.
Kennedy first went public along with her accusations towards Rose in her 2016 autobiography, however her lawsuit was solely not too long ago made doable by New York’s Grownup Survivors Act, which for one yr waives the statute of limitations on civil fits regarding sexual misconduct. That is the final week that plaintiffs can file fits underneath the act.
In response to the lawsuit, Kennedy went with the Weapons N’ Roses frontman, TV character Riki Rachtman and one other mannequin from the membership again to Rose’s lodge suite, the place a number of individuals have been there partying with medication and alcohol. Kennedy was initially open to a sexual encounter with Rose, however his habits started to alarm her after he cleared the suite of everybody however him, her, Rachtman, and the opposite mannequin, with whom Rose started to have intercourse.
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“Kennedy shortly turned uncomfortable. Rose was aggressive in a approach that appeared painful for the mannequin,” the lawsuit alleges. When Kennedy left the room, she allegedly heard Rose scream on the mannequin, “You’re a fucking whore. Get the fuck out of right here!”
Rose then sought out Kennedy in one other room and turned his aggression towards her, the lawsuit claims.
“Rose grabbed Kennedy by her gown and knocked her to the ground within the hallway exterior Rachtman’s bed room door,” the lawsuit states. “Whereas Kennedy was nonetheless on the bottom, Rose grabbed her by the hair and dragged her throughout the suite again to his bed room. This was very painful for Kennedy and brought about her knees to bleed from scraping on the rug.”
Kennedy frantically tried to rise up from the ground and collect her belongings after Rose “dragged [her] to his bed room like a caveman,” the lawsuit alleges, however Rose then picked her up, threw her on the mattress and tied her fingers behind her again with a pair of pantyhose.
“Rose then sexually assaulted Kennedy,” the lawsuit continues. “Rose forcibly penetrating Kennedy’s anus along with his penis. Rose made no try and 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.”
The expertise has left Kennedy with “lifelong emotional, bodily, psychological, and monetary impacts.”
An agent for Weapons N’ Roses didn’t instantly return a request for touch upon the lawsuit.
Kennedy’s submitting additionally claims that Rose “had a status throughout the music trade for incessantly aggressive, violent, and sexually hostile habits” and factors to a number of different allegations towards him, together with one which he participated within the gang-rape of his 15-year-old girlfriend in 1985 when he was 23, and one other that he threw a lady down the steps in 1990 when she refused to have intercourse with him.
Need assistance? Go to RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Online Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website.
