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NextImg:Former Penthouse model accuses Axl Rose of violent 1989 assault; Rose attorney claims 'incident never happened'


Axl Rose, frontman of the rock band Guns N’ Roses, has been accused of “violently” sexually assaulting Penthouse magazine model Sheila Kennedy in a lawsuit filed Wednesday with the New York State Supreme Court.

Kennedy is suing Rose for battery, assault, gender-motivated violence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress in an incident at a New York City hotel room on Central Park West in 1989.

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The former model claims that she met him at a nightclub and that Rose allegedly invited her back to his hotel room. He allegedly told her that he did not want her friend to come along because the woman was “not hot enough” for his taste.

Kennedy claims that Rose provided cocaine, champagne, and other alcohol for his hotel guests, which included MTV host Riki Rachtman and another female model.

The former Penthouse model admitted to having been “open to sleeping with [Rose]," but the complaint said that the "encounter quickly became not just uncomfortable but disturbing.”

Kennedy claims she left Rose's room with Rachtman and that Rose found her and “knocked her to the floor.” The complaint claims he dragged her by the hair “like a caveman.” He was alleged to restrain her hands and violently assault her "in a sexual, volatile rage” in his hotel room.

“Kennedy did not consent and felt overpowered,” the complaint said. “She understood that the safest thing to do was to lie in bed and wait for Rose to finish assaulting her.”

Rose’s attorney Alan S. Gutman denied the allegations in a statement claiming the "incident never happened."

"Notably, these fictional claims were filed the day before the New York State filing deadline expires. Though he doesn’t deny the possibility of a fan photo taken in passing, Mr. Rose has no recollection of ever meeting or speaking to the Plaintiff, and has never heard about these fictional allegations prior to today. Mr. Rose is confident this case will be resolved in his favor,” Gutman said.

Her lawsuit is for an unspecified amount. She filed the lawsuit just before the deadline for the New York Adult Survivors Act expires on Thursday.

Kennedy made similar allegations in the 2021 British documentary Look Away.

This lawsuit comes a week after another music star, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, "vehemently" denied rape and abuse allegations from R&B singer Casandra Ventura, known as Cassie, who accused the rapper of “a cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking.”

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His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, called her lawsuit "offensive and outrageous allegations” and alleged that she was threatening to write a damaging book about Combs.

The day after Ventura filed the federal lawsuit in New York City, she and Combs quickly reached a settlement.