Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is facing a lawsuit by a woman who claims he sexually assaulted her when she was 16 during a three-year-long relationship in the 1970s.

Julia Holcomb Misley, who has publicly spoken out for years about Tyler’s treatment of her as a minor, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Tuesday alleging childhood abuse, sexual battery, sexual assault, and intentional infliction of distress during a relationship in the 1970s, according to The Guardian report.

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Julia, 65, claims “American Idol” judge Tyler was granted guardianship of her when she was 16, which he used to engage in a sexual relationship.

“When Plaintiff was 16 years old, DEFENDANT DOE 1 used his role, status, and power as a well-known musician and rock star to gain access to, groom, manipulate, exploit, and sexually assault Plaintiff over the course of over three years,” the suit says, according to AFP.

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While the suit does not name Tyler, referring to him only as “Doe 1”, a well-known musician and rock star, the suit quotes directly from Tyler’s 2011 memoir, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, in which he talks about a relationship with an unnamed young woman whose “parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour with me.”

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However, Misley’s lawyers named Tyler in a press release about the case.

The suit mentions how Misley was unable to resist Tyler’s power, fame, and wealth and he “coerced and persuaded Plaintiff into believing this was a ‘romantic love affair’”.

The two met right after her 16th birthday in Oregon in 1973, when they went to Tyler’s hotel room, according to the suit.

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After a discussion of her age and her troubled home life, the singer “performed various acts of criminal sexual conduct” on her.

Tyler persuaded the youngster’s mother to grant him guardianship the following year, circumventing laws that would otherwise prohibit them from traveling together.

According to the lawsuit, “the showman continued to travel with Plaintiff, assault her, and provide alcohol and drugs to her.”

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The suit claims she became pregnant by Tyler in 1975, during which Tyler pressured her into having an abortion, claiming smoke inhalation during an apartment fire could have caused damage to the fetus.

As a result of the abortion, Misley returned home, became religious, and married.

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As Holcomb points out in her statement, a change in California law that gives claimants until December 31, 2022, to file suit against people who abuse them as children is an opportunity “to expose an industry that protects celebrity offenders, to clean up and hold accountable an industry that both exploited and allowed me to be exploited for years.”

A commercial speaking agency lists Holcomb on its website. According to her bio, she is pro-life, which mentions her relationship with Tyler.