Axl Rose was sued, in November 2023, by former Penthouse mannequin Sheila Kennedy, who alleged that the Guns N’ Roses frontman had sexually assaulted her in a New York lodge room in 1989. Now, in response to court docket filings considered by Pitchfork, Rose and Kennedy have agreed to discontinue the case with prejudice, which means it can’t be refiled. As well as, in response to Rolling Stone, the events reached a personal settlement, the phrases of which haven’t been made public.
In an announcement shared with Pitchfork, Axl Rose stated, “As I’ve from the start, I deny the allegations. There was no assault.”
Rose’s lawyer, E. Danya Perry, added, “Mr. Rose has suffered enormously from this lawsuit, and I’m happy that he’ll now be capable of transfer on along with his life.”
Kennedy beforehand mentioned her experiences with Rose in No One’s Pet, her 2016 autobiography, and within the 2021 documentary Look Away. In an announcement to Pitchfork on the time of the unique submitting, an lawyer for Rose, Alan S. Gutman, wrote “Mr. Rose has no recollection of ever assembly or talking to the Plaintiff, and has by no means heard about these fictional allegations previous to at the moment.”
Kennedy’s attorneys didn’t instantly reply to Pitchfork’s request for remark.
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