Attorneys for Bob Dylan have formally denied allegations of kid sexual abuse made in opposition to him in a lawsuit from an nameless lady filed in August 2021.
The lawsuit claims that Dylan groomed the girl, known as JC, when she was 12 years previous and sexually abused her. Dylan, it's claimed, aimed to “decrease her inhibitions with the article of sexually abusing her, which he did, coupled with the supply of medication, alcohol and threats of bodily violence, leaving her emotionally scarred and psychologically broken to at the present time”.
JC initially alleged that the abuse happened over a six-week interval in 1965, together with at New York’s Chelsea Lodge. Final week, the lawsuit was amended to state that the alleged abuse happened over “a number of months”.
Dylan’s authorized crew have responded to the modification with a submitting of their very own, calling the lawsuit “a brazen shakedown … false, malicious, reckless and defamatory”. It goes on: “Mr Dylan won't be extorted. Mr Dylan will vigorously defend himself in opposition to these lawyer-driven lies and search redress in opposition to all these accountable, together with by in search of financial sanctions in opposition to individuals liable for manufacturing and bringing this abusive lawsuit.”
They declare that JC “informed a really totally different story about her alleged interactions with Mr Dylan to a journalist, Mr Daryl Sanders, in 2017”, and try and discredit JC by highlighting her work as a psychic. JC’s lawyer Peter Gleason responded, saying: “Neither my shopper or her counsel are going to be bullied. Greater than half of People consider in psychic phenomena. In the event you’re going to assault any person for his or her beliefs, you’re encroaching upon very harmful territory. That is what this nation relies on, freedom of beliefs. It shouldn’t divert our consideration from the allegations. This case is in regards to the details.”
Her allegations, together with the brand new timeframe, are additionally described by Dylan’s attorneys as a “chronological impossibility”, one thing additionally claimed by others within the wake of the preliminary submitting. The music author Clinton Heylin stated it was “not doable” that Dylan was in New York for lengthy sufficient through the preliminary alleged timeframe, saying that the singer was in England, Los Angeles and Woodstock in rural New York.
One other lawyer for JC stated in August that Dylan’s itinerary was “not inconsistent with our shopper’s claims. There are dates that he wasn’t touring for a number of weeks in April and it will all come out at that acceptable time. The claims have been vetted earlier than the case was filed and we did our analysis. It’s our place that the proof will set up that he was in New York through the related time interval.”
No listening to date has but been set for the case.
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