Go-Go’s Guitarist Jane Wiedlin Alleges That Rodney Bingenheimer Sexually Abused Her

Note: This write-up consists of summaries of supposed sexual offense.

Jane Wiedlin, the guitarist in the Los Angeles rock team the Go Go’s, has actually charged the radio DJ and previous club proprietor Rodney Bingenheimer of sexually attacking her when she was a young adult. In a brand-new Wanderer record that consists of statement from 4 various other females, Wiedlin alleges that, when she had to do with 15 and he had to do with 27, Bingenheimer separated her in a back space of his Los Angeles club, Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Nightclub, and scrubed his crotch versus hers till he had an orgasm. “I didn’t know what to do; I was pretty much frozen,” Wiedlin informed Wanderer. “I didn’t say anything; I didn’t try to stop him.” Bingenheimer did not reply to the publication’s ask for remark.

The various other females that talked with Wanderer in-depth comparable experiences; the write-up adheres to a legal action, submitted late in 2015 and still energetic, in which the Runaways’ Kari Krome charged Bingenheimer and the late Kim Fowley of sexual offense her when she was a young adult. (Among the females ahead ahead in the brand-new write-up submitted an authorities record to the Los Angeles Authorities Division in 2018 that did not lead to costs, according to Wanderer.) Wiedlin claimed she is stepping forward, partly, to reveal Krome that she is not the only one.

Bingenheimer, a significant rock DJ that organized a program on KROQ from 1976 to 2017, still holds a regular radio program on SiriusXM’s Below ground Garage network. In the Wanderer write-up, Wiedlin included that she has actually blended sensations regarding Bingenheimer’s function as a very early champ of theGo-Go’s “The guy’s a fucking monster, but then he also helped us,” she claimed, including, “the Go-Go’s got our first exposure because of Rodney.”

She took place, “I should have said no [the night of the alleged assault], but I didn’t. It wasn’t anything I asked for, but at the same time I wanted to be a sexy young adult or whatever. It’s very tangly in my mind. At this stage, I think, ‘Fuck that guy.’ That was wrong. Even if I had asked him to do something, which I didn’t, it wouldn’t have been right. It was illegal and immoral.”

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