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Runaways Stars Respond To Jackie Fox's Rape Allegations

07/13/2015
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(Radio.com) Jackie Fox, original bassist of pioneering '70s all-female rock band the Runaways, shocked the world with a harrowing account of being raped by the group's notorious manager, Kim Fowley last week.

In her account of the incident, Fox claimed that at least two of her bandmates in the Runaways, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, were both witnesses to her brutal attack at the hands of Fowley, but did nothing to intervene or help.

Both Jett and Currie have since responded to the allegations on social media, refuting Fox's claims. "Anyone who truly knows me understands that if I was aware of a friend or bandmate being violated, I would not stand by while it happened," Jett stated on the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Facebook page. "For a group of young teenagers thrust into 70s rock stardom there were relationships that were bizarre, but I was not aware of this incident. Obviously Jackie's story is extremely upsetting and although we haven't spoken in decades, I wish her peace and healing."

Currie, the lead singer of the Runways, also used Facebook to make a statement about the incident, expressing her desire to clear her name in relation to the rape allegations:

"I have been accused of a crime. Of looking into the dead yet pleading eyes of a girl, unable to move while she was brutally raped and doing nothing. I have never been one to deny my mistakes in life and I wouldn't start now. If I were guilty, I would admit it. There are so many excuses I could make being only one month into my sixteenth year at the time that people would understand but I am innocent. When I return from Sweden I will seek a qualified polygraph examiner to put to rest any and all allegations. I will make public the questions, answers and results of that test." Read more here.

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