Axl Rose has settled a sexual assault lawsuit first brought against him by a former model in November 2023, PEOPLE has learned. News of the settlement comes nearly nine months after the rocker attempted to have the lawsuit alleging sexual assault and battery dismissed in March.

The Guns N' Roses frontman was accused of attacking a former Penthouse model in a Manhattan hotel room in 1989

Last year, the former model Shelia Kennedy filed a lawsuit against Guns N’ Roses leader Axl Rose in the New York Supreme Court. Just before the expiration of New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which relaxed the statute of limitations for survivors of sexual abuse,

Axl Rose, who was slapped with a sexual assault lawsuit by ex-'Penthouse' model Sheila Kennedy last year, settled out of court.

Last year, former 'Penthouse' model Sheila Kennedy accused the musician of a violent assault dating back to 1989

Axl Rose was sued, in November 2023, by former Penthouse model Sheila Kennedy, who alleged that the Guns N’ Roses frontman had sexually assaulted her in a New York hotel room in 1989. Now, according to court filings viewed by Pitchfork,

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has reached a private settlement with a former model who accused him of sexual assault in 2023. Rose, in a statement, maintained that he did not attack and rape Sheila Kennedy in a Manhattan hotel room in 1989.

Guns N’ Roses‘ Axl Rose has settled the sexual assault lawsuit that was filed against him in November of 2023 over an alleged incident that took place in 1989. Former model Sheila Kennedy filed the suit,