Aerosmith music video model Dean Kelly arrested over attempted rape: police

A former male model, who appeared in the music video for Aerosmith’s hit song “Crazy” in 1994, was arrested and charged with attempted rape earlier this week, meeting the women through dating apps, according to a report.

Dean Kelly, 52, was nabbed by police and booked on attempted third-degree rape and sexual battery charges stemming from an incident from October, the New Orleans Police Department announced on Thursday.

Kelly rose to fame for his cameo in the band’s music video where he played a young, shirtless farmer tilling farmland in a tractor, starring alongside actress Alicia Silverstone and frontman Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv.

A woman alleged in court documents obtained by WDSU that she met Kelly through a dating app and claimed he used a fake name and didn’t look like his photos before he allegedly assaulted her.

The former model turned predator is being held at the Orleans Parish Justice Center on $1.1 million bond and also received charges for failing to register as a sex offender and failing to notify of sex offender, jail records show.

The arrest is the latest in a string of legal problems for Kelly as he has faced several other similar arrests over the past decade.

Kelly was issued a 10-year suspended sentence and five years of probation for sexual battery and felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile in 2014, according to NOLA.com.

He was later sentenced to prison when a New Orleans judge ruled Kelly violated his terms of probation including not using aliases on social media and having to register all phones he used, the outlet reported at the time.

Kelly has also been accused of raping a 14-year-old and 17-year-old girl in two separate incidents in 2005, according to NOLA.com.

He was charged with forcible rape and felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile, second-degree kidnapping and possession of child pornography, but took an Alford plea where he did not plead guilty but acknowledged there was evidence against him.

Two years after his imprisonment in 2014, Kelly was charged with trying to hire a fellow inmate to kill former New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro along with the judge who worked the case and his defense attorney, the now Orleans Parish District Attorney, Jason Williams.

Kelly pleaded guilty to threatening a public official, and handed a 6-month suspended jail sentence and two years of probation.

He was released from prison in June 2022.

The music video, which was remastered and published on YouTube in 2009, has been viewed over 661 million times but was one of the most requested videos on MTV when it was first released, according to the music channel.