Nick Carter Sued for Alleged Rape of 17-Year-Old Girl During 2001 Backstreet Boys Tour - Rolling Stone

Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter is facing a caller assertion helium raped a 17-year-old miss connected a autobus during the lad band’s Black & Blue worldwide performance circuit successful 2001.

Accuser Shannon “Shay” Ruth filed a intersexual artillery suit successful Clark County, Nevada, connected Thursday claiming Carter picked her retired of a enactment of fans seeking autographs astatine the Tacoma Dome successful Washington that nighttime and invited her to articulation him connected his circuit autobus erstwhile she was an unsuspecting virgin.

Ruth, who says she lives with autism and cerebral palsy, claims Carter, who would person been 21 astatine the time, fed her a pinkish portion dubbed “VIP juice” that tasted alcoholic, ordered her to get connected her knees and past pulled down his pants and insisted she execute oral enactment connected him. She alleges helium instructed her connected however to proceed adjacent though she was crying.

Now 39, Ruth alleges Carter, who faced a akin allegation successful the past that was not prosecuted, led her to a bed, “pushed” her down and forcefully removed her pants erstwhile she resisted. Carter past allegedly attempted to orally copulate Ruth arsenic she “begged him to stop,” the suit obtained by Rolling Stone states.

“Carter told her to ‘Shh!’ arsenic helium laid connected apical of her and said it would beryllium our ‘special secret,'” the filing continues, alleging that Carter past vaginally penetrated Ruth.

“The past 21 years person been filled with pain, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-harm that are a nonstop effect of Nick Carter raping me,” Ruth said astatine a property conference with her lawyer Mark Boskovich successful Beverly Hills connected Thursday.

“Even though I’m autistic and unrecorded with cerebral palsy, I judge thing has affected maine much …than what Nick Carter did to me,” Ruth said, struggling to clasp backmost tears.

She claimed Carter turned “nasty and threatening” erstwhile she told him she was going to study the incident. “After helium raped me, I retrieve him calling maine a ‘retarded bitch’ and grabbing maine and leaving bruises connected my arm,” she said.

“Carter tried to scare maine into silence,” she claimed, saying helium told her “he’d crook radical against maine due to the fact that helium was Nick Carter and had the powerfulness to wreck my life.”

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“I felt similar I had obscurity to turn,” she said. “I genuinely believed if I told anyone, I would spell to jail.”

Representatives for Carter did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Rolling Stone.

“This accusation is categorically false, Nick is focusing connected his household and mourning the decease of his brother,” an unidentified root adjacent to the vocalist told TMZ, which archetypal reported the lawsuit.

The suit comes aft Melissa Schuman, a erstwhile subordinate of teen-pop radical Dream, stepped guardant successful 2017 and accused Carter of sexually assaulting her successful 2003, astir the clip they were shooting the 2004 made-for-TV movie “The Hollow,” erstwhile she was 18 years old.

Los Angeles County prosecutors investigated Schuman’s assertion and yet declined to record a case, saying the allegation was extracurricular the 10-year statute of limitations.

In a blog station that’s nary longer active, Schuman said Carter invited her and a person to his Santa Monica residence for a “casual hangout.” Schuman said she besides was a virgin astatine the clip and that Carter allegedly poured shots and past took her to a bath wherever helium performed oral enactment connected her implicit her protests.

“I told him to stop, but helium didn’t. So I turned disconnected the bath airy truthful I wouldn’t spot anything. He kept turning the airy backmost connected due to the fact that helium told maine helium wanted to look astatine me,” she wrote.

“I americium shocked and saddened by Ms. Schuman’s accusations. Melissa ne'er expressed to maine portion we were unneurotic oregon astatine immoderate clip since that thing we did was not consensual,” Carter said successful a connection to Rolling Stone astatine the time. “This is the archetypal that I americium proceeding astir these accusations, astir 2 decades later. It is contrary to my quality and everything I clasp beloved to intentionally origin idiosyncratic discomfort oregon harm.”

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The caller suit filed Thursday besides alleges 3 women identified lone arsenic Jane Does person accused Carter of akin behavior. It claims Jane Doe 2 was a 15-year-old miss astatine the clip of her alleged maltreatment successful 2003 and says she contracted HPV from Carter, an allegation besides made by Ruth.

Jane Doe 1 likewise alleges maltreatment successful 2003, and Jane Doe 3 alleges she was sexually assaulted by Carter astatine a location enactment successful Key West, Florida, successful 2006, the filing states.

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Boskovich said during the property league that the suit is withholding the women’s names “to sphere their privateness until they’re acceptable to talk themselves.” He said his squad has interviewed the women.

Ruth’s civilian enactment is seeking monetary damages for past and aboriginal symptom and suffering arsenic good arsenic punitive damages successful an magnitude to beryllium determined astatine trial.