In the same year, Fowley and the group parted ways amid disagreements about money. Fowley, who died in January from bladder cancer, always denied that he any improper sexual contact with members of the band. Besides Fuchs, two other women in the article said they were sexually assaulted by the Runaways’ manager when they were teenagers. She said seeing her Runaways bandmates staring at her was her “last memory of the night.” 
 
 Gems/Redferns From left, Lita Ford, Joan Jett, Jackie Fox (real name Fuchs), Sandy West and Cherie Currie made up all-girl rock group the Runaways. Jackie Fuchs, the bassist for the seminal all-female rock group that launched Joan Jett into stardom, said the band’s founder and manager, Kim Fowley, drugged and raped her when she was 16 years old. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Fuchs, whose stage name was Jackie Fox, alleged the assault took place at a party following the Runaways’ New Year’s Eve show in Orange County, Calif., in 1975. Do you keep them in a cage?’ He obviously had a lot of control over them.” After the final set, at around 1 a.m., Fowley took the band to a drab motel near the club, where they started celebrating with friends. Kesha has accused Dr Luke of drugging and assaulting her, while he has countersued, accusing her of lying to get out of her contract. Witnesses claim she was given a number of Quaalude sedatives, before Fowley allegedly asked if one of the roadies at the party would like to have sex with Fuchs. “You don’t know what terror is until you realise something bad is about to happen to you and you can’t move a muscle,” Fuchs is reported as saying. “I can’t move. I can’t speak. All I can do is look him in the eye and do the best I can do to communicate: please say no ... I don’t know what it looked like from the outside. But I know what was going on inside and it was horror.” The roadie declined Fowley’s offer, and soon after, Jackie says she started to slip in and out of consciousness. Fuchs, 55, said a man she believed was a roadie told her to take Quaaludes “no questions asked,” a claim backed up by witnesses at the party, with one describing it as a “date-rape type situation.” 
 
 In her first time publicly recounting the alleged incident, Fuchs said she slipped in and out of consciousness as Fowley raped her, “gnashing his teeth and growling like a dog.” 
 
 “I remember opening my eyes, Kim Fowley was raping me, and there were people watching me,” Fuchs said, referring to bandmates Jett and Cherie Currie. Previous Next 
 
 
 
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 When asked to comment on the allegations, Jett was said to have “denied witnessing the event as described here.” Currie, for her part, said that she “spoke up and stormed out of the room.” 
 
 Fuchs exited the Runaways two years later, and cited the assault as why she chose to leave. Fowley always denied any sexual impropriety with members of the Runaways, including in a 2013 band biography: “They can talk about it until the cows come home but, in my mind, I didn't make love to anybody in the Runaways nor did they make love to me.” Victory Tischler-Blue was Jackie’s replacement on bass, and one of her main memories from her time as a Runaway was how some of the other members made fun of what happened to Jackie. Meanwhile, it emerged on 6 July that Cosby obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with. According to the article, Fuchs said she was unwilling to make her alleged rape public until the recent number of high-profile sexual assault cases involving prominent individuals such as Bill Cosby and Kesha’s producer Dr Luke.
– The allegations of sexual assault plaguing Bill Cosby have inspired a former member of the all-girl rock band the Runaways to come forward with her own story of rape. Bassist Jackie Fuchs, aka Jackie Fox, says male band manager Kim Fowley raped her at a motel party in 1975 when she was just 16. Now 55 and a lawyer, Fuchs says an apparent roadie told her to take a Quaalude "no questions asked" after the Runaways performed a New Year's Eve show in Orange County, Calif., reports the Huffington Post in a lengthy profile of the band. Witnesses share their recollection of the moment with HuffPo: As Fuchs lay unconscious on a bed in a crowded room, Fowley took off her clothes, raped her with the handle of a hairbrush, and then had sex with her. "I remember opening my eyes, Kim Fowley was raping me," Fuchs says. She recalls seeing bandmates Joan Jett and Cherie Currie watching. "Jackie was dead, dead, dead drunk—like corpse drunk. She was just laying down on her back, sound asleep, out of it," says Runaways co-founder Kari Krome, who was 14 at the time, adding Fowley sexually assaulted her several times when she was a young, aspiring songwriter. Fowley, who died of cancer in January, maintained he had no inappropriate sexual dealings with the bandmates, reports the Guardian. A rep for Jett says she denies "witnessing the event as it has been described." However, a witness says Jett told him he "needed to deny being in the motel room that night" in case Fuchs tried to sue when she left the band in 1977. Fuchs says the assault was behind her departure, per the New York Daily News. Read "The Lost Girls" in full.