Kari Krome, a songwriter for the 1970s all-female rock band the Runaways, has filed a lawsuit against the group’s late manager, Kim Fowley, and longtime KROQ DJ and nightclub owner Rodney Bingenhei…
“Plaintiff, Kari Krome [legal name: Carrie Mitchell] is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, sexual battery, assault, and molestation at the hands of Defendant Rodney Bingenheimer,” the lawsuit, obtained by Variety, reads in part.
However, the new suit represents the first time she has publicly accused Bingenheimer of sexual assault. “You can come to a conclusion or think that something isn’t right, but if you’re speaking on something too soon, a lot of times you’ll get nothing but blowback and you have to wait until the time is right,” Mitchell told Rolling Stone. “I never shut up about it. Just nobody wanted to hear it. Nobody seemed to care.
In his role at KROQ and as owner of the English Disco, Bingenheimer played a major role in the rise of glam rock and, later, punk rock in Los Angeles. However, the Disco was “notorious for allowing underage kids to come inside,” as the suit alleges, and was a popular destination for many rock stars of the era . The suit alleges that Bingenheimer, who was 28 at the time, started grooming Mitchell “to believe they were becoming friends and that she could trust him.
The suit also states that Fowley signed Mitchell to a publishing deal on her 14th birthday, and she claims he took credit for numerous songs she’d written for the group, most notably their hit “Cherry Bomb.” “Especially when you’re young and you may not be happy at home, you’re rebelling against your parents, you have a rich fantasy world. I know I did,” Mitchell continued. “You go to Rodney’s, it was like walking into Oz. I was looking at the posters, the marquee, the people. It was so overwhelming for me, I couldn’t take it all in fast enough. The real side of that was dealing with grown men who had really rampant sexual energy. But I was wearing Wallabees and denim jackets. I was out of place.
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