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Kari Krome, co-founding member of The Runaways, has named deceased Runaways manager Kim Fowley and former KROQ DJ and club owner Rodney Bingenheimer in a sexual assault lawsuit. Krome alleges that Fowley and Bingenheimer separately groomed and then sexually assaulted her in the 1970s when she was a teenager. The lawsuit was filed at the end of last year, clearing the deadline for California’s Child Victims Act.
Kari Krome, a songwriter for The Runaways, has filed a lawsuit against the estate of deceased Runaways manager Kim Fowley and former KROQ disc jockey and nightclub owner Rodney Bingenheimer, accusing them both of sexually assaulting her in the 1970s when she was a teenager. The suit marks the first time Mitchell has publicly accused Bingenheimer of sexual assault. The suit alleges that Bingenheimer's English Disco was "a clearinghouse for grooming underaged girls and serving them to rock stars," adding that "he assaulted the girls themselves."