A former member of the woman band Dream is suing Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter, alleging he raped her in his Santa Monica, California apartment in 2003, an allegation Carter has earlier denied.
Melissa Schuman submitted go well with in Santa Monica on Tuesday, alleging sexual battery, sexual assault and intentional infliction of psychological distress.
Schuman first went community with her allegations against Carter in 2017.
In her lawsuit, Schuman promises Carter invited her to his Santa Monica apartment in 2003, though both ended up operating on filming a teenager horror movie named “The Hollow.” The lawsuit contends that Carter, who was with a male close friend, invited her around to “cling out and participate in video online games.”
Schuman went to his apartment with her roommate, and though there, Carter commenced generating cocktails, and the lawsuit contends he set some form of drug in her drink. Carter led her to a back again place of work beneath the pretense of sharing some new audio he was working on, but he started sexually assaulting her, eventually raping her in a bed room, the lawsuit states.
In a assertion Wednesday to “Entertainment Tonight,” Carter’s attorney yet again denied Schuman’s allegations.
“Melissa Schuman has been peddling this tale for numerous several years,” lawyer Liane Wakayama mentioned in a statement. “But her allegation was phony when she very first made it again in 2017, and it still is.”
In February, Carter filed a lawsuit of his have against Schuman and yet another girl — Shannon “Shay” Ruth — who took lawful motion in opposition to the singer in December declaring he raped her when she was a teen in 2001.
Carter’s lawsuit accused both of those women of orchestrating an extortion plan by creating bogus allegations of sexual assault. The accommodate contended that both of those gals ended up doing the job to “harass, defame and extort Carter,” in the course of action costing the Backstreet Boys hundreds of thousands of bucks in revenues due to the allegations.
Ruth, who introduced her Nevada lawsuit against Carter in December for the duration of a Beverly Hills information conference, statements Carter raped her in a tour bus after a Backstreet Boys live performance in Tacoma, Washington, when she was just 17.
She alleges the singer gave her what he referred to as “VIP Juice,” then sexually assaulted her.
Michael Holtz, an legal professional for Carter at the time, unveiled a statement that termed the allegation “not only lawfully meritless but also entirely untrue.”
“Unfortunately, for a number of yrs now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into generating bogus allegations from Nick, and these allegations have adjusted continuously and materially about time,” he claimed. “No a person really should be fooled by a press stunt orchestrated by an opportunistic lawyer. There is practically nothing to this claim in any way, which we have no question the courts will promptly recognize.”
Attorneys for Schuman contend that Carter has engaged in a sample of “online intimidation” from Schuman in an effort to discredit her allegations against the singer. The lawsuit claims Carter employed his “fan engagement crew to really encourage (Carter’s) committed supporter foundation to have interaction in online intimidation in an energy to intimidate, blame, harass and discredit plaintiff on the net.”
In a assertion produced by her lawyers, Schuman explained, “I’ve confronted incredible backlash for standing up for myself. I am not the very first, on the other hand, my intention is that I am the very last. It is really time that powerful figures in the songs industry get the concept that they can no for a longer time find the money for to enable and guard sexual predators. I’m fighting to make the tunes industry a safer spot to work and accomplish.”
