Nick Carter Countersues Woman Who Accused Him of Sexual Assault on Tour Bus
Nick Carter Countersues Woman Who Accused Him of Sexual Assault on Tour Bus[/caption]
- Nick Carter is fighting back against accusations of sexual assault.
- On Feb. 2, the Backstreet Boys member filed a countersuit against Shannon “Shay” Ruth after she sued him in December for alleged sexual battery.
- He is also suing Melissa Schuman, a former teen pop singer with the girl group Dream, who accused him of rape in 2017. In court documents obtained Carter’s attorney accused both Ruth and Schuman of trying to “harass, defame and extort” his client
- The countersuit alleges the two women took advantage of the #MeToo movement and used it to launch a five-year conspiracy to “defame and vilify Carter and otherwise ruin his reputation for the purposes of garnering attention and fame and/or extorting money from Carter”.
- The filing also called Schuman and Ruth “opportunists,” claiming that they were set out to “destroy innocent lives” and caused more than $2. 3 million in business losses.
- “Carter will not allow himself to be smeared in this way,” his attorney said in court documents.”Protecting one’s reputation and name by calling a liar a liar is not victim blaming or bullying. In response to the countersuit, Ruth’s attorney told Page
- Six, “Why should Nick Carter be believed with his long history of abusing females?
- Back in 2017, Schuman alleged in a since-deleted blog post that Carter raped her when she was 18 years old.
- That I forgive you,” she replied.”That I do not want anything from you. I wish you only the best. I do not want your money.
- I did not do this to hurt you or your family. As for Ruth, she alleged in a 2022 lawsuit that Carter assaulted her after she attended a Backstreet Boys concert in 2001. She was 17 at the time.
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