nick carter He continues to maintain his innocence after multiple women accused him of sexual assault.
According to court documents obtained by us weeklyCarter filed a motion for summary judgment against it on Tuesday, May 7. shannon ruth, who previously filed a lawsuit against the singer claiming he raped her when she was 17 years old. In the filing, Carter’s legal team claimed that Ruth was “desperate for her two minutes of fame.”
“Ruth’s goal was simple – to attract as much attention as possible in the hopes that Carter would be cancelled. It worked for a while,” the filing reads. “ABC cancels Backstreet Boys’ Christmas special, a very backstreet vacation, and Carter is left fighting for his innocence and his family. Now, more than a year later, Carter has obtained all the evidence he needs to prove that he has been telling the truth all along – that he did not rape Ruth, or anyone else for that matter.
Carter’s lawyers alleged that other women, including Ruth, have accused him of sexual harassment. melissa shuman And the plaintiff, identified only as AR, “planned” the allegations as part of a “scheme to gain fame and extort money from Carter.” Carter and his team also accused Ruth of fabricating her testimony and claimed it was a “factual impossibility”.
As the only boy band member with true longevity, Nick Carter has seen it all. Despite his success with the Backstreet Boys, Carter has experienced turmoil in his personal life. In January 2002, he was arrested in Florida and charged with a misdemeanor count of resisting/resisting a law enforcement officer. […]
We Ruth, Schumann and AR have been contacted for comment.
Ruth to sue Carter in December 2022 for sexual battery and accused him of attacking her after a 2001 Backstreet Boys concert. Ruth claimed the musician invited her to join him on his tour bus while she was waiting in line for autographs after the show, according to obtained documents. We, She alleged that Carter exposed himself to her and performed oral sex on her “under duress.”
Carter vehemently denied the allegations. “This claim, regarding an incident that occurred more than 20 years ago, is not only legally baseless, but also completely false,” a representative for the musician told Us in a statement in December 2022. has been manipulated into making false allegations about Nick – and those allegations have changed repeatedly and materially over time. No one should be fooled by a press stunt organized by an opportunistic lawyer – there is nothing wrong with this claim, which we have no doubt the courts will soon realize.
At a hearing in Las Vegas in March 2023, a judge ruled that Carter could file a counterclaim against Ruth after he alleged that she falsely accused him in an extortion attempt.
Nick Carter was named in a December 2022 lawsuit alleging that he assaulted an underage teenage girl approximately 21 years ago. Shannon Ruth claimed in her court filing that the Backstreet Boys singer forcibly raped her after attending a concert in Tacoma, Washington in February 2001. Ruth, who is on the autism spectrum and has cerebral palsy, alleged […]
Ruth is not the only person to accuse Carter of sexual harassment. Last year, Schumann, singer of the girl group Dream, also sued Carter sexual assault and battery, In the lawsuit, Melissa claimed that Carter allegedly performed oral sex on her and made her do the same despite her protests before raping her.
While Melissa filed the lawsuit in 2023, she first made the allegations in a 2017 blog post and filed a police report the following year. Carter’s lawyer, Lian K. wakayamaDenied Schumann’s allegations in a statement We,
“Melissa Shuman has been promoting this story for several years, but when she first brought it up back in 2017 her allegations were false – and they still are,” the April 2023 statement said. “A judge in Nevada recently ruled after reviewing the extensive evidence we provided that Nick Carter had a criminal record for conspiring to harm, defame, and extort Nick, his associates, his friends, and Ms. There are strong grounds for pursuing the case against Shuman. his family.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, get in touch National Sexual Harassment Hotline At 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
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