Axl Rose responds to sexual assault lawsuit

Lawyers for Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose have filed a response to a lawsuit filed in November by former Penthouse Pet of the Year Sheila Kennedy, who claimed that back in 1989, the rocker sexually assaulted her in his hotel room after they met at a New York nightclub.

The first time was in 2016 in her memoir No One's Pet. "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," she wrote. The second time was in the 2021 documentary Look Away when she said of the encounter, "I did not consider it rape. It was consensual."