Axl Rose has reportedly settled a sexual assault lawsuit filed in 2023, with a brand new assertion by the rock star denying its allegations.
The Weapons N’ Roses frontman was alleged to have assaulted former mdoel Sheila Kennedy in a Manhattan resort room in 1989, a lawsuit filed in New York’s Supreme Courtroom on November 22, 2023 said.
In March 2024, Rose filed a movement to dismiss the lawsuit, which his authorized group described as an “unscrupulous try at a monetary windfall”.
Now, per Rolling Stone, Rose and Kennedy have reached a non-public settlement, with an announcement supplied by the singer to the publication – sustaining his innocence, he stated: “As I’ve from the start, I deny the allegations. There was no assault.” The phrases of the non-public pact had been undisclosed.
In a submitting obtained by Rolling Stone, each events had reportedly filed paperwork in New York at a current undisclosed date. It said that they’d agreed to discontinue the case with prejudice – which implies that it can’t be filed once more at a later date. They additional agreed to cowl their very own authorized prices, the submitting said.
In a separate assertion, Rose’s lawyer informed Rolling Stone that the 62-year-old “suffered significantly from this lawsuit,” and that “he’ll now be capable of transfer on along with his life”. Rolling Stone added that Kennedy and her lawyer had been unable to be reached for remark.
Within the 2023 lawsuit, Kennedy claimed that she was 26 and he was 27 after they first met at a nightclub in New York. Upon assembly, Rose is claimed to have invited Kennedy to his resort room.
At first, there was an preliminary consensual kiss, the place Rose is alleged to have “pushed Kennedy in opposition to the wall”. Moreover, the lawsuit states that Kennedy “was open to sleeping with him if issues progressed.” Nonetheless, she maintains that she didn’t consent to alleged additional violent encounters later that night.
The lawsuit claims that Rose then “knocked her to the ground and “grabbed her by the hair and dragged her throughout the suite again to his bed room.” This induced “her knees to bleed from scraping on the rug.”
Rose went on to allegedly throw her on the mattress, tying up her arms behind her again with pantyhose after which forcibly penetrating her. The lawsuit claimed Rose was in “a sexual, risky rage”.
“He handled her like property used solely for his sexual pleasure,” the swimsuit went on to allege. “Kennedy didn’t consent and felt overpowered.”
The lawsuit claimed that Kennedy suffered from PTSD-like signs, together with anxiousness and despair. Moreover, Kennedy claimed her profession was compromised by the alleged assault. Kennedy sought unspecified damages from the courtroom for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery and gender-motivated violence.
Rose’s legal professionals said earlier this yr that Kennedy described the alleged incident as “consensual intercourse” in her 2016 memoir No One’s Pet, whereas claiming that she stated she “didn’t contemplate it rape, it was consensual” within the 2021 documentary Look Away.
In addition they claimed that Kennedy realised she “might revenue from claiming that the incident had not in actual fact been consensual”, as a consequence of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act, a one-year ruling that prolonged the statute of limitations for sexual assault allegations.
