Bob Dylan, a US singer-songwriter, is being sued by a woman who claims that he sexually abused her in 1965 when she was 12-years-old.
The lawsuit alleges that Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) “exploited his status as a musician to provide (the plaintiff) with alcohol and drugs and sexually abused her multiple times”. It claims that the abuse took place at Dylan’s apartment in New York’s Chelsea Hotel.
Dylan’s spokesperson told the BBC that “the 56-year-old claim is untrue and will be vigorously defended”.
The lawsuit was filed last Friday with the New York Supreme Court under the state’s Child Victims Act.
The lawsuit claims that the injuries the accuser, only known by her initials J.C, suffered include “psychological distress, humiliation, fright, disassociation, anger, depression, anxiety, personal turmoil and loss of faith, a severe shock to her nervous system, physical pain and mental anguish.”
As such, J.C. claims she has incurred years of “medical expenses and will continue to be obligated to expend sums of money for medical care and attention in an effort to cure herself of her injuries.”
“Dylan’s predatory, sexual and unlawful acts against Plaintiff amounted to a series of harmful and offensive contacts to Plaintiff’s person, all of which were done intentionally by him to her without her consent,” the legal documents allege.
J.C is seeking unspecified damages and requests a trial by jury.
Sources: BBC, MSN
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