Metal Anarchy

As previously reported, former Penthouse model Sheila Kennedy made headlines late last year after accusing Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose of sexual assault in a civil suit. However, according to Radar, lawyers representing the frontman have since filed a motion to dismiss the case.

Kennedy previously claimed that Rose physically and sexually abused her during a disturbing incident at a hotel back in 1989. She was seeking unspecified damages for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and gender-motivated violence.

For their part, Rose‘s representatives denied the accusations, citing Kennedy‘s 2016 memoir “No One’s Pet.” Rose‘s attorney said the following about that:

“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.’”

They also cited past interviews:

“In an interview for the 2021 documentary Look Away, Kennedy described the alleged sexual encounter this way: “[i]t was consented”; Rose was “not trying to hurt me”; and Rose acted “gently.” Kennedy reiterated: “It was okay. He was fine. … I did not consider it rape. It was consensual.”

Rose‘s lawyer also added:

“Despite having made clear and definitive statements, both before and after the height of the ‘Me Too’ movement, that her alleged sexual encounter with Rose was consensual, her position has now shifted. The belief that the statute of limitations had re-opened and that she could profit from claiming—for the first time, nearly 35 years later—that the incident had not in fact been consensual, was apparently too great an opportunity to pass up, and so she filed this false Complaint a mere two days before its expiration.”

Rose is try to get the case dismissed, while also having Kennedy and her lawyers sanctioned for “engaging in frivolous conduct, making materially false statements, engaging in conduct undertaken primarily to harass and maliciously injure Defendant, and failing to conduct reasonable inquiry and diligence.”