Guns’ and Roses singer Axl Rose has been sued for allegedly sexually assaulting Sheila Kennedy, a former Penthouse model, during a party in 1989, TMZ has reported.
Kennedy has filed a lawsuit alleging she was raped while hosting a party in February of that year. According to the plaintiff’s documents, it is transcribed that she met Axl at a New York nightclub, where the band was performing. Later, she attended a private party in her hotel suite invited by the artist.
The plaintiff claims that Riki Ratchman, an MTV presenter, and another model were present at that second meeting. At this event, the singer invited them to drink alcohol and consume cocaine. Shortly after, both of them kissed in a consensual manner, unlike the attack that happened much later.
Rose then had sex with the other woman and offered Ratchman and Sheila Kennedy a threesome, which they refused and decided to leave the room. When she came out, she heard the sound of a glass falling against the floor and Axl Rose calling the model she had been intimate with a “whore.”
Shortly afterward, he left the room toward Rachtman’s suite, where Kennedy was. He hit her, leaving her lying on the ground. Then he grabbed her by her hair and dragged her across the floor, taking her to her bedroom, causing injuries to her knees.
Once in the suite, he placed her face down on the bed, tied her hands behind her back with stockings and sexually assaulted her without giving prior consent, feeling “dominated.” She waited for the singer to stop raping her. “She “she was lying down, with her hands tied behind her back, bleeding, vulnerable and alone with Rose, while he was in a state of volatile, sexual rage,” the lawsuit states.
The events left Sheila Kennedy traumatized, stating that she has experienced anxiety and depression similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. She also claims that her love life “has been damaged” and is demanding damages from the singer.
Axl Rose has been accused of rape twice. In 1985, he was sued for abusing a 15-year-old girl. And in the nineties, his then-wife, Erin Everly, accused him of spitting on her, hitting her, tying her up, and dragging her by her hair on several occasions, as well as forcing her to have sexual relations with him.
This accusation occurred hours before the expiration – this midnight – of a one-year legal window to seek justice through civil means in cases of sexual crimes that occurred years ago and that had expired, enabled thanks to the Adult Survivors Law in the New York State.
This New York legal window to report these types of sexual crimes has led to thousands of actions, some against other high-profile figures, such as Donald Trump, rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs or New York Mayor Eric Adams .
