A former Penthouse magazine model sued Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose on Wednesday, saying he raped her in a 1989 attack at a New York City resort that still left her with anxiousness and despair and harmed her profession.
Sheila Kennedy, 61, submitted the lawsuit in Point out Supreme Court in Manhattan, searching for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for physical damage, ache and struggling, extreme psychological distress, psychological anguish, humiliation, shame, stress and anxiety and economic hurt.
The lawsuit was filed in opposition to Rose, 61, of Malibu, California, below a momentary New York legislation, the Adult Survivors Act, that lets adult victims sue around assaults that occurred even many years in the past. The regulation expires right after Thursday.
Lawyer Alan S. Gutman reported in a assertion on behalf of Rose: “Simply put, this incident by no means took place. Notably, these fictional promises were being submitted the day prior to the New York Condition submitting deadline expires.”
He extra: “Though he does not deny the risk of a enthusiast picture taken in passing, Mr. Rose has no recollection of at any time meeting or speaking to the Plaintiff, and has hardly ever read about these fictional allegations prior to right now. Mr. Rose is self-confident this circumstance will be settled in his favor.”
In her lawsuit, Kennedy, of Palm Springs, California, alleges that she satisfied Rose in February 1989 in a Manhattan nightclub, exactly where the singer invited her to be a part of a occasion in his resort suite afterward.
According to the lawsuit, Kennedy noticed Rose have sex with another model prior to he turned angry with the female, buying her out of his suite.
He then turned toward Kennedy, dragging her throughout a flooring by the hair and tying her arms with each other with pantyhose, before assaulting her from guiding, the lawsuit reported.
“Rose manufactured no attempt to inquire for or examine that Kennedy was consenting,” the lawsuit mentioned. “He addressed her like property employed solely for his sexual enjoyment.”
The lawsuit claimed the assault left Kennedy with lifelong emotional, actual physical, psychological and economical harm and “symptoms akin to submit-traumatic strain disorder each time she hears Rose’s title or the audio of Guns N’ Roses.”
She was diagnosed with nervousness and depression since of the assault and her earnings have endured since she has prevented nightclubs and social situations wherever she could come across Rose or listen to his new music, and individuals social contacts are important for her profession, the lawsuit explained.
Kennedy has built the allegations about Rose in the earlier, which includes in a 2016 memoir, “No One’s Pet,” and in a 2021 documentary, “Look Absent,” about girls sexually abused in the music sector.
The Involved Push does not normally name folks who say they have been sexually abused until they appear ahead publicly, as Kennedy has performed.
