Axl Rose has settled the sexual assault lawsuit that was filed towards him in November final 12 months. It’s understood that the Weapons N’ Roses frontman and plaintiff Sheila Kennedy have reached a non-public settlement and that the case has been closed with prejudice, which means that it can’t be filed once more. The phrases of the settlement haven’t been revealed.
“As I’ve from the start, I deny the allegations,” Rose tells Rolling Stone. “There was no assault.”
In a separate assertion, Rose’s lawyer, E. Danya Perry, stated, “Mr. Rose has suffered enormously from this lawsuit, and I’m happy that he’ll now be capable to transfer on together with his life.”
In accordance with the courtroom paperwork, the alleged assault passed off in 1989, after former Penthouse mannequin Kennedy met Rose in a nightclub. Kennedy claimed that she agreed to attend a celebration in Rose’s lodge suite, the place she and different company have been plied with cocaine and alcohol. After an preliminary encounter with Rose that Kennedy “didn’t thoughts”, the lawsuit went on to explain the alleged assault intimately, stating that Rose had “dragged Kennedy to his bed room like a caveman and acted with uncontrolled fury.” The go well with went on to allege that Rose forcibly penetrated Kennedy’s anus together with his penis.
On the time, Louder reached out to Rose’s representatives for remark, and acquired an announcement from his lawyer, Alan S. Gutman at Gutman Legislation in Los Angeles.
“Merely put, this incident by no means occurred,” stated Gutman. “Although he doesn’t deny the opportunity of a fan picture taken in passing, Mr. Rose has no recollection of ever assembly or talking to the Plaintiff, and has by no means heard about these fictional allegations previous to as we speak. Mr. Rose is assured this case can be resolved in his favour.”
Though Kennedy’s lawsuit was filed shortly earlier than the statute of limitations on sexual misconduct claims for civil fits – waived for 12 months underneath the phrases of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act – was reintroduced in November 2023, she additionally detailed the alleged assault in her 2016 autobiography, No One’s Pet, and in Look Away, a 2021 documentary about sexual misconduct within the music trade.
