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Posted: 2023-11-22T21:18:55Z | Updated: 2023-11-22T21:18:55Z

A new lawsuit accuses Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose of violently sexually assaulting a woman in a volatile rage in 1989.

The civil lawsuit from former Penthouse model Sheila Kennedy alleges that Rose violently assaulted her in his New York hotel room in 1989 after the pair, both in their mid-20s at the time, met at a nightclub earlier in the evening. In her lawsuit, Kennedy alleges a disturbing sequence of events in which Rose grew increasingly aggressive once they returned to his hotel room, dragging her across the floor bleeding before forcibly penetrating her.

Kennedy first went public with her accusations against Rose in her 2016 autobiography, but her lawsuit was only recently made possible by New Yorks Adult Survivors Act , which for one year waives the statute of limitations on civil suits concerning sexual misconduct. This is the last week that plaintiffs can file suits under the act.

According to the lawsuit, Kennedy went with the Guns N Roses frontman, TV personality Riki Rachtman and another model from the club back to Roses hotel suite, where several people were there partying with drugs and alcohol. Kennedy was initially open to a sexual encounter with Rose, but his behavior began to alarm her after he cleared the suite of everyone but him, her, Rachtman, and the other model, with whom Rose began to have sex.