Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten Sued for Assaulting Assistant
Stop press! This guy may be angry and violent!
There may be problems ahead for Sex Pistols mouthpiece Johnny Rotten (or John Lydon, if you’re not nasty), as the perennially assholish punk icon has been sued by a (presumably former) assistant, Roxane Davis. Yesterday, TMZ.com reported that a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims that “the Sex Pistol singer allegedly beat the crap out of a female assistant after calling her every horrible name in the book after the taping of a television show in 2007.”
The suit suggests that Rotten “cocked back his fist … and punched her in the face” when Lydon found himself in a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton that, for whatever reason, didn’t share a door with another assistant named Rambo. It was then that Rotten and Rambo allegedly starting berating Davis verbally. Davis reportedly brought this incident to the attention to her supervisor on the show Rotten was working on at the time, but her complaints were ignored.
No word yet on whether this suit will affect the Pistols’ plans to tour the world this summer. And on June 30, Fremantle Entertainment will release a DVD of recent live Sex Pistols performances entitled There’ll Always Be an England.
(This video has nothing to do with Rotten allegedly beating the crap out of any assistants, however, it’s a swwww interview from The Greatest Talk Show That Ever Was, and this is only Parte Primo – be sure to check Partie Deux when you’re done diddling with One.)