Lawyers for Bob Dylan have formally denied allegations of child sexual abuse made against him in a lawsuit from an anonymous woman filed in August 2021.
The lawsuit claims that Dylan groomed the woman, referred to as JC, when she was 12 years old and sexually abused her. Dylan, it is claimed, aimed to “lower her inhibitions with the object of sexually abusing her, which he did, coupled with the provision of drugs, alcohol and threats of physical violence, leaving her emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged to this day”.
JC originally alleged that the abuse took place over a six-week period in 1965, including at New York’s Chelsea Hotel. Last week, the lawsuit was amended to state that the alleged abuse took place over “several months”.
Dylan’s legal team have responded to the amendment with a filing of their own, calling the lawsuit “a brazen shakedown … false, malicious, reckless and defamatory”. It goes on: “Mr Dylan will not be extorted. Mr Dylan will vigorously defend himself against these lawyer-driven lies and seek redress against all those responsible, including by seeking monetary sanctions against persons responsible for manufacturing and bringing this abusive lawsuit.”
They claim that JC “told a very different story about her alleged interactions with Mr Dylan to a journalist, Mr Daryl Sanders, in 2017”, and attempt to discredit JC by highlighting her work as a psychic. JC’s lawyer Peter Gleason responded, saying: “Neither my client or her counsel are...
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