Nick Carter is sustaining his innocence immediately after he was accused of sexual assault by multiple women of all ages.
According to court documents acquired by Us Weekly, Carter filed a movement for summary judgment on Tuesday, Could 7, from Shannon Ruth, who formerly submitted a lawsuit towards the singer professing he raped her when she was 17 decades old. In the submitting, Carter’s legal crew claimed that Ruth was “desperate for her two minutes of fame.”
“Ruth’s objective was easy — gain as a lot awareness as doable in hopes that Carter would be canceled. For a quick moment it worked,” the filing read through. “ABC canceled the Backstreet Boys’ Christmas special, A Very Backstreet Holiday break, and Carter was still left combating for his innocence and his relatives. Now, more than a calendar year later, Carter has received all of the evidence necessary to establish that he has been telling the truth of the matter all alongside — he did not rape Ruth or any individual else for that make a difference.”
Carter’s lawyers alleged that Ruth, together with other girls accusing him of sexual assault such as Melissa Schuman and plaintiff determined as A.R. have “orchestrated” the allegations as component of a “plan to garner fame and extort Carter out of revenue.” Carter and his staff also accused Ruth of fabricating her testimony, claiming it was a “factual impossibility.”
Us has arrived at out to Ruth, Schuman and A.R. for remark.
In December 2022, Ruth sued Carter for sexual battery and accused him of assaulting her subsequent a 2001 Backstreet Boys live performance. Ruth claimed the musician invited her to be a part of him on his tour bus while she was waiting around in line for an autograph right after the display, per docs obtained by Us. She alleged that Carter exposed himself to her and experienced her perform oral sex on him “under duress.”
Carter vehemently denied the allegations. “This claim about an incident that supposedly took location far more than 20 yrs in the past is not only lawfully meritless but also completely untrue,” the musician’s rep informed Us in a statement in December 2022. “Unfortunately, for many years now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into building false allegations about Nick – and all those allegations have improved consistently and materially more than time. No 1 must be fooled by a push stunt orchestrated by an opportunistic attorney – there is almost nothing to this declare in any respect, which we have no doubt the courts will promptly comprehend.”
At a hearing in Las Vegas in March 2023, a judge ruled that Carter could file a counterclaim from Ruth after he alleged that she falsely accused him in an extortion attempt.
Ruth is not the only individual to accuse Carter of sexual assault. Last calendar year, Schuman, who was a singer for the girl group Aspiration, also sued Carter for sexual assault and battery. In the lawsuit, Melissa claimed that Carter allegedly carried out oral sex on her and made her do the exact to him in spite of her protests prior to he raped her.
While Melissa filed the lawsuit in 2023, she initial produced the allegations in a 2017 blog site post and submitted a law enforcement report the adhering to 12 months. Carter’s attorney, Liane K. Wakayama, denied Schuman’s accusations in a assertion to Us.
“Melissa Schuman has been peddling this tale for several decades, but her allegation was untrue when she very first produced it again in 2017 — and it nevertheless is,” the April 2023 statement study. “A choose in Nevada not too long ago ruled, soon after examining the substantial evidence we laid out, that there are solid grounds for Nick Carter to move forward with his lawsuit against Ms. Schuman for plotting to harm, defame and extort Nick, his associates, his good friends and his household.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
