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Nick Carter's First Backstreet Boys Show Following Rape Allegation
Nick Carter is warring backmost against accusations of intersexual assault.
On Feb. 2, the Backstreet Boys member filed a countersuit against Shannon "Shay" Ruth aft she sued him successful December for alleged intersexual battery. He is besides suing Melissa Schuman, a erstwhile teen popular vocalist with the miss radical Dream, who accused him of rape successful 2017.
In tribunal documents obtained by E! News, Carter's lawyer accused some Ruth and Schuman of trying to "harass, defame and extort" his client.
The countersuit alleges the 2 women took vantage of the #MeToo question and utilized it to motorboat a five-year conspiracy to "defame and vilify Carter and different ruin his estimation for the purposes of garnering attraction and fame and/or extorting wealth from Carter."
The filing besides called Schuman and Ruth "opportunists," claiming that they were acceptable retired to "destroy guiltless lives" and caused much than $2.3 cardinal successful concern losses.
"Carter volition not let himself to beryllium smeared successful this way," his lawyer said successful tribunal documents. "Protecting one's estimation and sanction by calling a liar a liar is not unfortunate blaming oregon bullying. It is simply telling the truth."
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In effect to the countersuit, Ruth's lawyer told Page Six, "Why should Nick Carter beryllium believed with his agelong past of abusing females? A assemblage volition measurement the grounds and decide."
E! News has reached retired to Ruth's lawyer and Schuman's squad for remark and hasn't heard back.
Back successful 2017, Schuman alleged successful a since-deleted blog post that Carter raped her erstwhile she was 18 years old. Carter denied the allegations at the time, saying, "Melissa ne'er expressed to maine portion we were unneurotic oregon astatine immoderate clip since that thing we did was not consensual."
After coming guardant with her allegations, Schuman was asked connected The Dr. Oz Show successful December 2017 what she would similar to accidental to Carter.
"That I forgive you," she replied. "That I don't privation thing from you. I privation you lone the best. I don't privation your money. I didn't bash this to wounded you oregon your family. I did this for me, due to the fact that I needed this healing."
As for Ruth, she alleged successful a 2022 lawsuit that Carter assaulted her aft she attended a Backstreet Boys performance successful 2001. She was 17 astatine the time.
Carter's lawyer denied Ruth's allegations, telling E! News, "This assertion astir an incidental that supposedly took spot much than 20 years agone is not lone legally meritless but besides wholly untrue."
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