Singer Melissa Schuman, who for years has alleged the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter raped her in 2003, has filed a lawsuit reviving the declare that Carter attacked her when she was 18.
Schuman, a former member of the 2000s lady group Dream, accused Carter of forcing her into oral intercourse, and of utilizing “his function, standing, and energy as a widely known singer to achieve entry to, groom, manipulate, exploit” and rape her, in line with the swimsuit, obtained by a number of retailers.
Schuman, now 38, first accused Carter in late 2017. She mentioned the assault occurred at Carter’s condo in Santa Monica, California, the place he refused “to take my no’s for a solution.”
The Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace years in the past declined to prosecute Carter, citing the 2013 statute of limitations expiration. Schuman, chatting with the New York Put up, cited a brand new California regulation quickly lifting limitations on submitting civil lawsuits making sexual assault claims.
“It’s time that highly effective figures within the music business get the message that they’ll not afford to allow and defend sexual predators,” Schuman informed the outlet. “I’m combating to make the music business a safer place to work and carry out.”
Carter has vehemently denied assaulting Schuman. His lawyer known as the lawsuit “a PR stunt.”
“Melissa Schuman has been peddling this story for a few years, however her allegation was false when she first made it again in 2017 — and it nonetheless is,” Liane Okay. Wakayama, Carter’s legal professional, informed Rolling Stone. “This PR stunt gained’t shake Nick.”
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Schuman has mentioned up to now that she and Carter had been launched by their groups, who recommended they date one another for publicity. After the assault, she mentioned her supervisor urged her to remain silent and mentioned she can be “buried in humiliation” if she didn’t.
Schuman, who then was co-starring with Carter in a film and was signed to Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ file label, wrote in her 2017 weblog publish that her profession started to worsen, regardless that she didn’t converse out on the time.
The submitting claimed Carter continued to “manipulate and torment” Schuman with textual content messages and calls, and {that a} “well-known and highly effective supervisor within the music business” acquired her to file a duet with Carter to create “the misunderstanding” they had been pleasant.
The tune, produced for a film soundtrack, was by no means bought.
Carter denied Schuman’s allegations in 2017 and informed a number of retailers she “by no means expressed to me whereas we had been collectively … that something we did was not consensual.”
She filed a report with the Santa Monica Police Division in 2018.
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Carter can be going through a lawsuit filed in Nevada by Shannon Ruth, who claimed he compelled her into oral intercourse and raped her. Ruth, who was 17 on the time and says she is autistic, alleged Carter known as her a “retarded bitch.”
Carter has vigorously denied the allegations.
Need assistance? Go to RAINN’s Nationwide Sexual Assault On-line Hotline or the Nationwide Sexual Violence Useful resource Heart’s web site.