Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter accused of rape in third lawsuit – Nationwide
A 3rd lawsuit has been filed in opposition to Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter, alleging the singer raped a 15-year-old lady 20 years in the past.
The lawsuit was filed Monday by an unnamed Pennsylvania girl in Clark County, Nev., in response to Las Vegas information station KTNV.
Within the authorized submitting, the lady, recognized solely as A.R., claims Carter sexually assaulted her a number of occasions in 2003, when Carter was 22 and 23 years outdated. She alleges Carter raped her in separate cases onboard a yacht and a ship in Florida, and sexually assaulted her on a bus.
A.R. claims Carter, now 43, instructed her “to maintain his sexual abuse of her a secret.”
She is the third girl to file a lawsuit of this nature in opposition to the Backstreet Boys star. Two different girls, Shannon Ruth and Melissa Schuman, have additionally accused Carter of rape and sexual assault. Ruth mentioned Carter raped her when she was 17 years outdated.
In February, Carter filed a countersuit and denied each girls’s claims. He referred to as Ruth and Schuman “opportunists” who’re benefiting from the #MeToo motion to “defame and vilify” him for monetary acquire.
On Tuesday, Carter additionally denied A.R.’s allegations by his lawyer. In an announcement to TMZ, Carter’s lawyer, Dale Hayes Jr., mentioned A.R. made the identical claims 20 years in the past, although authorities investigated and located no purpose to pursue prices in opposition to the singer.
Hayes mentioned A.R. is “repeating the identical false allegations in a brand new authorized criticism” and that it “doesn’t make them any extra true.”
“Nick is trying ahead to the proof being offered and the reality about these malicious schemes coming to gentle,” the assertion concluded.
Within the lawsuit, A.R. claims Carter raped her in a yacht cabin in Florida in August 2003 whereas she was an intoxicated minor.
A couple of days after that, Carter allegedly referred to as A.R. to fulfill him on a bus, the place he would sexually assault her.
In a 3rd occasion, A.R. claims Carter supplied her medication and alcohol at a celebration onboard a ship in October 2003. After she grew to become drunk, A.R. alleges Carter took her to a cabin the place he allowed three different males to observe him rape her.
A.R. claims she contracted human papillomavirus (HPV) from Carter.
She is suing for sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery and negligent infliction of emotional misery.
As a part of earlier lawsuits, Ruth mentioned Carter invited her onto a tour bus after a live performance in Tacoma, Wash., when she was 17 years outdated. She claims Carter gave her alcohol and compelled her to carry out oral intercourse earlier than he raped her. Ruth additionally alleges that she contracted HPV from Carter.
Schuman, a former member of the lady group Dream, in 2017 accused Carter of sexually assaulting her when she was 18 and the pair collaborated on a movie venture in 2003.
Carter has by no means confronted any legal prices in relation to those allegations.
In response to Carter’s countersuit, Schuman filed an anti-SLAPP movement, which goals to cease lawsuits making an attempt to silence legitimate expressions of free speech within the U.S. A choose is scheduled to listen to arguments about this submitting Wednesday.
Ruth additionally filed an anti-SLAPP movement in February, however it was denied in March when a choose mentioned she had not met her burden of proof. Carter’s counterclaim, which incorporates proof from over a dozen obvious witnesses, was allowed to proceed.
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