Axl Rose, vocalist of exhausting rock titans Weapons N’ Roses, has settled the sexual assault lawsuit that was filed towards him in November of 2023. The swimsuit was filed by ex-Penthouse mannequin Sheila Kennedy over an incident alleged to have taken place again in 1989. In her unique swimsuit, Kennedy alleged that Rose had forcibly dragged her by the hair again to his room from a neighboring room in a NY resort.
The swimsuit alleged that Rose then tied her fingers behind her again with panyhose, earlier than forcibly penetrating her anus. That swimsuit went onto declare:
“He handled her like property used solely for his sexual pleasure. He didn’t use a condom. Kennedy didn’t consent and felt overpowered. She felt she had no escape or exit and was compelled to acquiesce. She believed Rose would bodily assault her, or worse, if she mentioned no or tried to push him away. She understood that the most secure factor to do was to lie in mattress and await Rose to complete assaulting her.”
A number of months later in March of this yr, Rose sought to have the swimsuit dismissed, citing conflicting accounts of what transpired, together with a passage from Kennedy‘s personal 2016 memoir. Rose‘s authorized group argued:
“In her 2016 self-authored memoir, No One’s Pet, Kennedy described the alleged incident within the Grievance as consensual intercourse, and particularly famous: ‘I used to be okay with this. I had wished to be with him because the minute I’d first laid eyes on him, and now I used to be getting him.’”
In her swimsuit she listed assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, and gender-motivated violence as causes of motion. Rose for his half denied the incident ever passed off. Rolling Stone, now report that the swimsuit has since been settled out of court docket.
The phrases of that association weren’t disclosed. Nevertheless, in a press release supplied to the aforementioned publication, Rose maintained his innocence, providing: “As I’ve from the start, I deny the allegations. There was no assault.”
Rose‘s lawyer E. Danya Perry added: “Mr. Rose has suffered vastly from this lawsuit, and I’m happy that he’ll now be capable of transfer on together with his life.” The settlement finds the case being discontinued with prejudice, which means it could’t be revived down the road. Moreover, Rolling Stone be aware that that the 2 events agreed to cowl their very own authorized prices.
The swimsuit was filed throughout the the restricted window of final yr’s grownup survivors act. That initiative enabled alleged victims of sexual assault to file swimsuit towards their attackers with out being blocked by the usual statute of limitations imposed upon such claims.
