Nick Carter Is Facing Sexual Assault Allegations From Four Women

Nick Carter denies each and every sexual assault allegation that has been lodged in opposition to him and is counter-suing two of his accusers.

May 21 2024, Updated 10:18 p.m. ET

In a February 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, former Backstreet Boy Nick Carter seemed again on a career that had spanned more than two decades. The then 36-year-old was once about to free up his third solo album and was once gearing up for a world tour. He also hinted at a new Backstreet Boys album which in all probability ended up being DNA, their 9th studio album which used to be launched in 2019.

Carter looked to be in just right spirits as he talked about his lifestyles in the entertainment industry, which began when he was once only 13 years outdated. When asked concerning the past and in particular what he missed maximum in regards to the early days of the Backstreet Boys, Carter said he longed for his anonymity. A bit of over a yr later, he would have even much less privacy as the primary of four sexual allegations were lodged in opposition to him. Here's what we know concerning the allegations.

What are the allegations against Nick Carter? Four women claim he sexually assaulted them.

In October 2017, Radar Online reported that in 2006 an unidentified lady filed an incident document with the West Allis Police Department in Wisconsin where she lived. According to the document, legislation enforcement spoke with the sufferer at West Allis Memorial Hospital a few state of affairs that came about on March 26, 2006, and March 27, 2006, in Florida.

She told police that her cousin is buddies with Carter and he introduced to fly them to Key West, Fla. Once there, they grabbed a chunk to eat and looked at actual property for Carter with him and his good friend, Rob Kalouch. The staff began drinking after they went back to Kalouch's house. The sufferer mentioned she used to be tipsy and not inebriated when Carter allegedly grabbed her breasts and digitally penetrated her with out her consent. She additionally alleged that Kalouch adopted her to a bathroom and compelled his penis into her mouth. She chose not to press charges.

After hearing about this story a month after it broke, Melissa Schuman decided it was once time to inform her personal. Schuman was up to now in the woman band Dream, and claims she was once running on a film when the incident took place in 2002, according to The Guardian. Apparently Carter raped her in his condo after she mentioned no and revealed she was once a virgin who used to be looking forward to marriage. She went on to mention that the alleged attack traumatized her however she was able to "lock it away."

In a statement to the hole, Carter denied realizing that no matter transpired between them was once anything else but consensual. "This is the first that I am hearing about these accusations, nearly two decades later," he said. "It is contrary to my nature and everything I hold dear to intentionally cause someone discomfort or harm." In September 2018, CNN reported that "prosecutors in Los Angeles will not pursue sexual assault charges against singer Nick Carter because the statute of limitations has expired."

Five years later, Schuman sued Carter for sexual attack and sexual battery. In the lawsuit she alleged that Carter "used his status and platform as an 'international multiplatinum recording pop star' to 'groom, manipulate, exploit, and sexually assault' her," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Four years after Los Angeles prosecutors said they could not deliver charges against Carter, Shannon Ruth additionally sued Carter in December 2022. Court documents received by TMZ state that Ruth was once 17 years previous on the time of the alleged assault in 2001. Ruth claimed she was "invited by Carter to his tour bus after a Backstreet Boys concert in Tacoma, Wash., while waiting in the autograph line." While there he gave the teenager, who has autism and cerebral palsy, what she believes was once a cranberry and vodka drink.

Ruth then alleged that Carter pressured her to perform oral intercourse on him in the toilet of the excursion bus although she was once sobbing the entire time. The court docket documents also state that he raped her on a bed in the back of the bus even though she was a virgin at the time. She later claimed to have contracted HPV from this attack.

In August 2023, a girl known as A.R. filed a lawsuit in opposition to Carter where she alleged he sexually assaulted her a couple of occasions in 2003, by means of 8 News Now. At the time she used to be 15 years outdated and said the incidents took place on his yacht. Like Ruth, A.R. claimed she contracted HPV from Carter who also denied these claims.

Nick Carter counter-sued Melissa Schumann and Shannon Ruth.

In February 2023, Carter counter-sued both Schumann and Ruth claiming they "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,'" reported People. It also refers to the sufferers as opportunists who value him $2.3 million in losses. Schumann then attempted to file an Anti-SLAPP motion which used to be denied by Judge Nancy Allf.

As of the time of this writing, Carter is loose to pursue his defamation counter-suits in opposition to Schumann and Ruth. At a listening to in August 2023, Carter's attorney stated in a statement that, "Today’s ruling confirms that Nick will be able to pursue that truth to its inevitable conclusion and expose the Schumans’ and their co-conspirators’ deceit and deplorable conduct."

If you need beef up, name the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or visit RAINN.org to chat online one-on-one with a enhance specialist at any time.

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