Nick Carter, former member of the American band Backstreet Boys, has returned to the media spotlight. The singer has been accused by a woman of an alleged sexual assault on a yacht. The events would have occurred in 2003, when she was 15 years old and he was 23.
According to the plaintiff, Nick would have forced her when they were on a yacht and also on a bus, after getting her drunk, as reported by the TMZ portal. Said lawsuit was filed on August 28 in the Clark County District Court (Nevada).
The woman is listed in the lawsuit as A.R. and claims that Carter "instructed her to keep his sexual abuse of her a secret." Given this, the artist's lawyer has sent the aforementioned medium that these accusations were made two decades ago and that the police could not find sufficient evidence to prove what happened. "He is repeating the same false accusations in a new legal complaint," he said.
Furthermore, the complaint contains a surprising fact. Among other things, the woman claims that Nick Carter had infected her with the human papillomavirus (HPV). After all, A.R. She confessed everything to his mother and to the police themselves, even though he didn't go any further.
Faced with the accusations, Nick Carter has denied everything through his lawyers. "Nick is pleased with A.R.'s filing as he will ensure that all currently known co-conspirators are brought to justice together," his legal team said.
However, this accusation is added to others that he has received over the years. Melissa Schuman, singer of the group Dream, sued the artist for another alleged abuse that she would have received from her in Santa Monica, in 2002, where she lost her virginity.
According to the documents, Schuman assured that she was forced by Carter to perform oral sex when she was 18 and he was 22. Some accusations that the singer did not hesitate to quickly deny, since he was not willing to be defamed.
But they have not been the only ones. The TMZ portal brought to light another plaintiff, Shannon Ruth. The woman herself alleged that she suffered a sexual assault by Nick Carter at a concert she performed in 2021, when she was a minor. However, the artist assured that she has witnesses who deny her version.
