Six ladies are accusing former KROQ DJ and LA membership proprietor Rodney Bingenheimer of molesting them once they have been underage. As Rolling Stone experiences, these accusers embrace Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s.
As a teen within the 1970s, Wiedlin frequented English Disco, Bingenheimer’s membership on the Sundown Strip, the place a few of the period’s well-known groupies just like the GTOs and Sable Starr used to carry courtroom. Dubbing themselves the Hollywooders, Wiedlin and her buddies would sneak out of their dad and mom’ houses to bop, watch dwell music, and meet rock stars on the membership. In Rolling Stone’s report, Wiedlin says one night time on the membership Bingenheimer took her to an remoted again room and sexually assaulted her.
“I keep in mind [the room] being very darkish and chilly,” Wiedlin tells RS. “I used to be a virgin. I didn’t have a lot expertise with boys; boys tended to disregard me…. He picked me out that night time. I didn’t know what was going to occur earlier than, however he began rubbing towards me together with his crotch towards my crotch. I didn’t know what to do; I used to be just about frozen. I didn’t say something; I didn’t attempt to cease him.”
Wiedlin says that after asking her to take away her belt, which was “getting in the way in which,” Bingenheimer ejaculated on her garments. She beforehand described the identical incident with out naming names in John Doe of X’s ebook Beneath The Large Black Solar. She says it wasn’t till the rise of the #MeToo motion that she realized she had been sexually assaulted at age 15. Bingenheimer didn’t reply to Rolling Stone’s questions concerning the incident.
In April, Kari Krome of the Runaways sued Bingenheimer for sexual assault. 4 different ladies described comparable incidents to Rolling Stone.
Within the 1970s, Bingenheimer started internet hosting his influential KROQ present Rodney On The Roq and earned the nickname “The Mayor of the Sundown Strip” for his function within the metropolis’s nightlife. He was additionally a columnist for Go! journal and contributor to Phonograph Report. Rolling Stone dug up a 1969 story from their very own archives during which Bingenheimer is described as a power-broker who gloms onto bands after which connects them with groupies. Within the documentary about Bingenheimer, The Mayor Of The Sundown Strip, he mentioned of himself, “I’m the designated driver between the well-known and the not-so-famous.” He presently hosts a weekly present on SiriusXM’s Underground Storage