“The time for reckoning of Steven Tyler for crimes against a child in California draws near.” – Jeff Anderson
(Los Angeles, CA) – Until now, Julia Misley has chosen to try to keep this as private as possible to protect her family. Steven Tyler and his lawyers have now foolishly and wrongfully harassed Julia and released to the media gross misrepresentations about the case and the Court’s rulings.
Julia Misley has, therefore, decided it’s time to respond and reveal the truth about the horrors inflicted upon her as a child by Steven Tyler and to this day.
On Monday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled that Julia, a child victim of repeated sexual assaults by Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, can proceed to a jury trial. The ruling comes on the heels of Tyler’s attempts to have Julia Misley’s case dismissed entirely, arguing that she consented to Tyler’s sexual assaults.
Misley had just turned 16 when she was first groomed and sexually assaulted by Tyler in 1973, a pattern that Tyler repeated for years as Tyler toured the country as a rising rock superstar. This pattern included Tyler convincing the teenager and all of those around him that he had become her guardian.
Tyler previously wrote in his biography, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, that he convinced Julia’s parents sign “papers over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state.” However, Tyler now denies that he ever obtained guardianship over Julia or convinced her that he did. He also denies impregnating her when she was under 18, despite previously writing about fathering the child and being present for a saline abortion performed upon her.
Specifically, the Court ruled that Julia’s Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Claim against Tyler for his sexual assaults in California must be heard by a jury:
“The Court cannot say as a matter of law that defendant engaging in an act of childhood sexual assault does not qualify as extreme and outrageous conduct with reckless disregard of the probability of causing plaintiff emotional distress.”
Under the Court’s Order, misstated by Tyler’s attorney, the sexual assault, sexual battery, and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress claims that occurred in California are to proceed to a jury trial. This includes multiple sexual assaults in California, opposed to the one occasion publicly claimed by Tyler’s attorney.
A hearing is set for May 13th at 8:30 a.m. PT to determine whether Julia will be permitted to obtain information about Tyler’s finances pursuant to her claim for punitive damages.
“This reflects years of resilience and courage by Ms. Misley, driven by an unwavering pursuit of truth and justice. It is time for justice and for Tyler to be held accountable by a jury.”
– Jeff Anderson
RECORD EVIDENCE OF STEVEN TYLER’S SEXUAL ABUSE OF JULIA MISLEY
I. Tyler Sexually Assaults Julia, a Minor, in California on Multiple Occasions
While Julia was under 18 years of age, she was fraudulently convinced by Tyler that he was her guardian and she was his ward. Convincing her he was her guardian, Tyler brought her to California on multiple occasions. On these numerous occasions in California, Tyler forced her to sleep nude with him, brought her to strip clubs, provided her alcohol, sexually assaulted her, and instructed her to call him “my lord.”
Tyler wrote about his trips to California with Julia in Walk This Way: “I had a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel … Diana was with me, sixteen years old and pregnant.” (Walk This Way at 260.) Tyler also testified that he stayed with Julia at the Beverly Hills Hotel “many times.”
Julia, a minor incapable of consenting to any sexual conduct in California, testified about one of these trips:
“One of the worst ones was in California. I was 16, and we were in a hotel. We had come out here for The Midnight Special. I remember being in a hotel with him, naked. He was having intercourse with me, and he decided he wanted to have sex with me in the hot tub at the hotel.
And he threw some shorts on, and he grabbed me by the arm. I was completely naked, I tried to get a towel, and he was like, no. It was in the middle of the night. There wasn’t anybody idling around in the hotel. And he said no one would see us.
And he just grabbed me and started running out of the room with me, naked. I had no clothes on. He took me down into the pool area where there was a hot tub. He had sex with me in the tub. He had intercourse.
When he was finished, he – still, I didn’t get to grab a towel, and he took me upstairs, we were in an elevator, and some people came upon us. And his managers received phone calls about this incident. They were disturbed that this had happened. They were – the management of the hotel was upset. And I felt completely humiliated.”
In his book, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, Tyler admits this crime while ignoring that it was statutory rape in California:
“One time we started out in a hot tub on the roof and wound up in the lobby. We got out of the hot tub naked and into the elevator and dared each other we couldn’t make it all the way down to our room without being seen. We hit every floor starting with the lobby … unfortunately, it went there first …. When the doors opened, there was an Amish family staring at us like figures in an oil painting.” (Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? at 143.)
However, in this litigation, when requested to admit that he had sexual intercourse with Julia in California, Tyler responded under the penalty of perjury:
“He has no recollection of engaging in sexual intercourse with Plaintiff in California, and as such, cannot admit or deny Request No. 9.”
II. Tyler Sexually Assaults Julia in Oregon and Washington
As a tenth-grade high school student, Julia met Tyler while attending an Aerosmith concert in Portland, Oregon. Tyler was 26 years old, and Julia had just turned 16. The age of consent in Oregon was 18. Despite that, Tyler brought Julia to his hotel room where he proceeded to provide her cocaine and sexually assault her.
Tyler admitted under oath:
Anderson: You had sex with Julia that night?
Tyler: Yes.
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Anderson: It was oral copulation wasn’t it?
Tyler: Yes, it was.
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Anderson: And you contributed to it, did you not?
Tyler: Yes.
For his part, Tyler testified that he “wasn’t thinking about [her age] at the time,” and that “he can’t even tell you” how old Julia was. However, Tyler wrote in his 2001 biography that Julia “was 16, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn’t a hair on it.” (Does the Noise in my Head Bother You? at 141) Tyler also wrote: “[w]ith my bad self being twenty-sex and she barely old enough to drive and sexy as hell, I just fell madly in love with her.” (Does the Noise in my Head Bother You? at 141)
The next night, Tyler brought Julia, 16-years-old, with him to his concert in Seattle, Washington. Like Oregon, Washington’s age of consent was 18. Despite this, Tyler again sexually assaulted Julia in his hotel room, admitting in his book: “[m]y little oral Annie came back with me to the hotel, the Edgewater Inn in Seattle, where we sat in the tub for two hours, naked with no water ….” (Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? at 142.)
III. Tyler Doesn’t Allow Julia to Finish her Tenth Grade Year and Moves her to Boston Where He Continues to Have Sex With Her as a Minor.
Tyler testified that he moved Julia to Boston because he was “in love and having an affair” with her. Again, Tyler disregarded that Julia was underage, even in his home state of Massachusetts where a “minor” was “any person under eighteen years of age.” (Mass. G.L. § 7, Chp. 4, Sec. 48 (1973)) Although “people said she looked young,” it did not stop Tyler from bringing Julia across the country from her family in Portland.
In Boston, Tyler left Julia, a minor, alone in his apartment for long periods of time, admitting in his book that “[s]he was really too young to leave alone at home, but I couldn’t take her on the road with me either.” (Walk This Way at 243.) Tyler also did not allow Julia, who had not yet finished tenth grade, to attend school while living with him in Boston. Tyler testified that he “didn’t give it that much thought.”
IV. Tyler Fraudulently Convinces Julia, her Mother, and the Rest of the World, that he is her Guardian and she is his Ward, Breaking his Promise to Provide her Education, Medicine, and Basic Needs.
During the course of litigation, Tyler has simultaneously claimed to be immune from legal responsibility for his sexual assaults of Julia as her “caretaker and/or guardian,” while also denying that he told Julia and others that he had become Julia’s guardian.
In March 2023, Tyler asserted that he is immune from legal responsibility because he was Julia’s “caregiver and/or guardian.” (Answer of Tyler, at 5:6-7) However, after testifying in October 2024 that he could not recall whether he became her guardian, Tyler amended his defenses and dropped his assertion that he was immune as “caregiver and/or guardian.” (Amended Answer of Tyler) Then, on July 21, 2025, Tyler again switched positions and denied that he ever became Julia’s guardian or told anyone that he was Julia’s guardian.
Tyler’s recent denial contradicts years of statements by himself and others that he convinced Julia and the rest of the world that he was her guardian.
“I was told [Julia] was under 18; and that’s why, as I understood it, there was a document prepared by the legal team in Boston for Steven guardian – guardianship of some sort by an attorney in Boston, which made it none of my business, which made it okay.”
“What I directly know is that I met [Julia] for the first time on tour, I was told that Frank Connelly had gotten [Julia’s] guardianship to Steven Tyler, that her mother had signed off, and that’s what I know.”
- Julia’s stepfather, who was present when the guardianship was signed, testified:
Q: And what did Steven say to you and [Julia’s mother] in presenting the paper?
A: He realized that he had a minor with him and needed to have our – well, to have [Julia’s mother’s] guardianship assigned to him.
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Q: And what was – what – how was the paper described to you and [Julia’s mother] as – as being and accomplishing?
A: It was described as being a release of guardianship.
- Terry Hamilton, wife of Aerosmith member Tom Hamilton, wrote in Aerosmith’s 1997 book Walk This Way:
“Steven was living with a very young girl named Diana Hall [Editor’s note: This is a pseudonym.] in a little carriage house on Goddard Avenue in Brookline. Diana was a sweet little girl, fifteen years old, whose parents had signed her over to Steven as her legal guardian so she could be with him.” (Walk This Way at 225)
- Laura Kaufman, Aerosmith’s publicist in the 1970s, wrote in Walk This Way:
“Steven met Diana in Portland. She was cute, innocent, fourteen, way too young. But he fell for her and I truly believe Steven was really in love with her, because he had to sign guardianship papers for her to come and live with him. Her parents had to agree to this and I remember it took lawyers and cost real money.” (Walk This Way at 225)
“He dressed her up as Little Bo Peep, made her wear outfits, for God’s sake, little schoolgirl frocks. No one could believe this, it was so outrageous.” (Walk This Way at 225)
- Tyler, in his 2001 biography, Does the Noise in my Head Bother You?, admitted:
“I was so in love I almost took a teen bride. I went and slept at her parents’ house for a couple of nights and her parents fell in love with me, signed papers over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state.” (Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? at 143.)
Tyler’s admission in Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? is striking, as he publicly stated through his publisher that the biography “is the unbridled truth, the in-your-face, up-close and prodigious tale of Steven Tyler straight from the horse’s lips.”
Despite this, Tyler now enters trial denying that he convinced Julia and the rest of the world that he was Julia’s guardian.
V. Tyler Impregnates Julia, a Child
When Julia was still a child, Tyler impregnated her. In Aerosmith’s 1997 Memoir, Walk This Way, Tyler admitted this, giving Julia a pseudonym and writing: “Diana was with me, sixteen years old and pregnant … There’d already been abortions with her,” and “[i]t’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a woman, but they convinced us Diana was too young and it would never work out and ruin our lives.” (Walk This Way at 260.)
However, in July 2025, Tyler switched course. When asked to admit that he impregnated Julia prior to her turning 18 years of age, Tyler answered under the penalty of perjury that he “lacks sufficient information to either admit or deny.”
Tyler also denied being present when the child he fathered was delivered and “contests the use of the term ‘fathered.’”
VI. After Julia Almost Dies in a Mysterious Fire in Tyler’s Apartment, Tyler Coerces her to Undergo a Late-Term Abortion and Consume Heroin.
Julia testified that while pregnant and alone in Tyler’s Boston apartment, she was running out of food, living only on milk. When she called Tyler and told him that she was going hungry, Tyler told Ray Tabano to take her to a grocery store. Tabano was a long-time friend, employee, and original member of Aerosmith. When Mr. Tabano arrived, he told Julia that Tyler directed him to give Julia cocaine, which Mr. Tabano did, and which Julia consumed.
Tyler told Julia, a minor he impregnated, that cocaine was safe. Julia testified:
“What Steven told me was cocaine was a safe drug. That’s what he told me. He told me it wasn’t like heroin. It was a safe stimulant, like coffee. That was what he personally told me.”
Julia testified that after she consumed the substance purported to be cocaine as directed that she became extremely tired. The next thing she recalls is waking up in a fire in the apartment, she could not see through the smoke and was choking. Pregnant, she crawled to the front door, but the lock was jammed.
Trapped, Julia crawled to a fireplace where she went unconscious, but was later rescued and revived by firefighters. In the hospital, Julia was told that the unborn child’s heartbeat was good and that the baby was healthy. However, after the doctor left the room, Tyler told Julia that the baby was harmed and needed to be aborted. Julia begged to keep the child, but Tyler told her he would no longer support her if she kept the child.
Julia testified about what happened next:
“I remember being wheeled in there. I was in a cart. I was naked. I had a sheet over me. I remember the doctor saying hold still … you could be killed or hurt. And he stabbed me with a large needle, and injected saline into my belly.”
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“He was in the room with me, and he was there for a few days. I mean, it was a long time I was in there, waiting for the baby’s body to be delivered.
And he was doing drugs on the table beside me. The nurse came in and caught him. They wanted to kick him out, but his lawyers were there and insisted they be allowed to stay.”
Tyler wrote about watching the late-term abortion in Aerosmith’s memoir, Walk This Way:
“You go to the doctors and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devasted. In my mind, I’m going, Jesus, what have I done?” (Walk This Way at 275)
Ray Tabano, Tyler’s long-time friend, employee, and former member of Aerosmith also wrote:
“I said, ‘Steven, if she has the fuckin’ baby, you’re gonna be stuck with this girl for life. C’mon, man, do the smart thing.’ So they had the abortion, and it really messed Steven up because it was a boy. He was there, he saw the whole thing, and it fucked him up big time.” (Walk This Way at 274)
However, when asked under oath to admit that he was present and witnessed the abortion, Tyler’s recollection changed, claiming:
“Defendant was not present during Plaintiff’s abortion that occurred in late October 1975, and as such denies Request No. 18.”
Following the abortion, Tyler brought Julia to a hotel where he forced her to consume heroin. Julia testified:
“He gave it to me repeatedly telling me to take it, that I need to have – at this moment it was after the fire and the abortion. We had come back to the hotel. I was really disturbed and unwell, and he handed me a different looking drug that he hadn’t given me. It wasn’t cocaine. And he said, ‘This is heroin. I want you to snort a little of this.’
And I said, ‘No.’ It was something that frightened me. I didn’t want anything to do with that. He repeated to me that I needed to take it because what I had been through, and he thought it was something to help me feel better, and I still said ‘No.” And then he kept pressing me. I did eventually take a little bit of it and laid down on the bed, and I felt the sense of despair come over me. It was a horrible feeling. It didn’t make me feel better. It made me feel terrible.”
Tyler now enters trial denying that he was present for the abortion of his child.
VII. Tyler’s Lack of Recognition for the Harm he Caused
Despite having sexually assaulted a child legally incapable of consenting in Oregon, Washington, and California, Tyler believes that he did nothing wrong and that the law does not apply to him.
In public filings, Tyler’s attorneys have continued to assert that a minor under the legal age of consent is somehow capable of consenting, writing:
“Outside of the legalistic framework of the capacity to consent, Plaintiff has not pointed to any facts that support a claim that she was not a consenting participant.”
Such statements are not only false – because a minor under the age of 18 legally cannot consent in Oregon, Washington, and California under any circumstance – but also continue to blame Julia for the crimes committed upon her by an adult who convinced her he was her guardian.
“Tyler’s repeated predatory sexual assaults of a child in California are malicious, oppressive, and continued under a veil of fraud. This case has been allowed to proceed to trial by jury. We are grateful to Julia Misley to be willing to stand up for herself and others.”
– Jeff Anderson