Bob Dylan within the 1960s.Bettmann | Getty PhotosA girl is suing legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a New York court docket, alleging he sex
Bob Dylan within the 1960s.
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A girl is suing legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a New York court docket, alleging he sexually abused her when she was 12 years outdated within the 1960s.
Dylan’s spokesman known as the allegations “unfaithful” and stated that the lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Courtroom, “can be vigorously defended” by attorneys for the singer.
The lawsuit was first reported by the New York Submit.
The go well with was filed a day earlier than the expiration of a one-year window opened by a New York state regulation, the Little one Victims Act, which allowed adults to sue for alleged little one sexual abuse irrespective of when the purported conduct occurred.
The lawsuit claims the now 80-year-old Dylan over a six-week interval in April and Could 1965 “befriended and established an emotional reference to” the woman to groom her to be sexually molested.
The go well with says Dylan, whose authorized identify is Robert Zimmerman, “exploited his standing as a musician to offer” the woman “with alcohol and medicines and sexually abuse her a number of instances.”
The criticism additionally accuses him of threatening bodily violence in opposition to her and says she has been left “emotionally scarred and psychologically broken to at the present time.” And it says the woman, who in April 1965 had simply turned age 12, suffered bodily accidents.
The lawsuit alleges the a number of Grammy Award-winning singer abused the woman at sure instances in his condo on the Lodge Chelsea, a then-seedy lodge in Manhattan that now has landmark standing as a result of its structure and well-known clientele.
Dylan is understood to have saved an condo on the lodge, which is called after its neighborhood, from 1961 by means of 1964, in response to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He additionally stayed there in fall 1965 to jot down songs for his album “Blonde on Blonde.”
Dylan carried out on a brief tour in England from April 30, 1965, by means of Could 10, 1965, footage of which was utilized by movie director D.A. Pennebaker in his documentary “Do not Look Again.”
The lawsuit particularly says that “upon data and perception,” Dylan “maintained an condo” on the Lodge Chelsea between April and Could 1965, the time interval throughout which the abuse is alleged to have occurred.
The legal statute of limitations for Dylan’s alleged abuse of the woman is lengthy expired.
The lady who sued Dylan is recognized within the lawsuit by the initials J.C. The criticism says the accuser at present resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The go well with alleges assault, battery, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional misery. It asks for unspecified financial damages.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Daniel Isaacs, when requested for remark, stated, “The criticism speaks for itself, and we will show our allegations in a court docket of regulation.”
Dylan, who wrote the enduring ’60s songs “Blowin’ within the Wind,” “The Instances They Are A-Changin'” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” is a member of the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame, an Academy Award-winning songwriter, and a winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.