Nick Carter denies sexually assaulting a teenager two decades ago. The Backstreet Boys singer, 43, fired back at claims laid out in a new lawsuit — the third sexual assault lawsuit he's facing — in a statement on Tuesday.
Here's what's going on.
In a complaint filed in Las Vegas on Monday, a woman only identified as "A.R." claims that Carter sexually assaulted her several times. The woman was supposedly 15 at the time of the incidents while Carter was in his early 20s. She alleged she was assaulted on multiple occasions on a yacht and once on a tour bus.
Carter's accuser says she reported the alleged assaults to her mother after they occurred, who then contacted law enforcement in Pennsylvania. The musician was never charged in connection to the allegations, something his lawyer noted in a statement this week.
Attorney Dale Hayes Jr. tells TMZ that when the claims were made 20 years ago, authorities investigated the allegations and found no merit to move forward with charges. He says the woman is "repeating the same false allegations in a new legal complaint," but it "doesn't make them any more true."
In December, Shannon "Shay" Ruth, now 39, came forward and publicly claimed that Carter assaulted her in 2001 when she was 17. The alleged incident happened after a concert in Tacoma, Wash. when the "I Want It That Way" crooner invited her onto the band's tour bus.
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