Gene Simmons Comments on Sexual Assault Allegation

07/04/2010
. Gene Simmons Comments on Sexual Assault Allegation was a top story in May/June. Here is the recap: he Gene Simmons camp issued a new statement about the KISS star's alleged sexual assault of an ESPN makeup artist. Here it is: Gene Simmons is challenging the claims of a makeup artist who falsely claimed that he assaulted her while visiting the ESPN studios in Los Angeles before a KISS concert last November at the Staples Center.

"I have no idea who this woman is and I deny her allegations," Simmons says. "I was only at the ESPN studios for a very short time, perhaps a half-hour, and was accompanied by KISS' drummer Eric Singer the entire time. I will not stand by and allow this baseless allegation to go unchallenged."

Makeup artist Victoria Jackson filed a lawsuit against Simmons in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 27, demanding that the KISS front man pay her $500,000 in damages for an assault that never took place - more on this story

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