Axl Rose‘s lawyers have filed a motion to have the sexual assault suit filed by Sheila Kennedy dismissed.
Kennedy sued the Guns n’ Roses frontman back in November, two days before New York’s Adult Survivors Act expired, claiming that her forced himself upon her in a hotel room in 1989.
Radar Online reports that in the motion for dismissal, Rose’s lawyers cite two examples where Kennedy publicly stated that the encounter was consensual.
The filing says, “In her 2016 self-authored memoir, No One’s Pet, Kennedy described the alleged incident in the Complaint as consensual sex, and specifically noted: ‘I was okay with this. I had wanted to be with him since the minute I’d first laid eyes on him, and now I was getting him.’”
The filing adds, “In an interview for the 2021 documentary Look Away, Kennedy described the alleged sexual encounter this way: ‘It was consented.'” Rose’s lawyers add, “She said Rose was ‘not trying to hurt me’ and Rose acted ‘gently.’”
The attorneys say that Kennedy is attempting to “rewrite history” by using the Adult Survivors Act, adding, “There was no financial motivation for Kennedy to do more than embellish the details of her alleged interaction with Rose. The ASA appears to have changed Kennedy’s calculus.”
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