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Nick Carter Sued for Alleged Rape of a Minor During Backstreet Boys Tour – Rolling Stone

December 9, 2022

Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter is facing a new allegation that he raped a 17-year-old girl on a bus during the boy band’s Black & Blue world concert tour in 2001.

Accuser Shannon “Shay” Ruth filed a sexual assault complaint in Clark County, Nevada, claiming Carter picked her from a line of fans seeking autographs at the Tacoma Dome in Washington that night and the had invited to join him on his tour bus when she was an unsuspecting virgin.

Ruth, who says she lives with autism and cerebral palsy, claims Carter, who would have been 21 at the time, gave her a pink drink dubbed “VIP juice” that tasted like alcohol, ordered her to get on her knees then pulled her pants down and insisted that she perform oral sex on him. She alleges that he told her how to proceed even though she was crying.

Now 39, Ruth alleges that Carter, who has faced a similar allegation in the past that was not prosecuted, led her into a bed, ‘pushed’ her down and removed her pants by force when she resisted. Carter then allegedly attempted to orally copulate Ruth as she “begged him to stop”, the lawsuit obtained by rolling stone states.

“Carter said ‘Hush!’ as he lay on top of her and said it would be our ‘special secret,'” the filing continues, alleging that Carter then vaginally penetrated Ruth.

“The past 21 years have been filled with pain, confusion, frustration, shame and self-harm that are a direct result of the rape of Nick Carter,” Ruth said at a press conference with her attorney Mark Boskovich. in Beverly Hills on Thursday.

“Even though I have autism and live with cerebral palsy, I believe nothing has affected me more…than what Nick Carter did to me,” Ruth said, struggling to hold back tears.

She claimed Carter became “mean and threatening” when she told him she was going to report the incident. “After he raped me, I remember him calling me a ‘retarded bitch’ and grabbing me and leaving bruises on my arm,” she said. declared.

“Carter tried to shut me up,” she claimed, saying he told her “he would turn people against me because he was Nick Carter and he had the power to destroy my life”.

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“I felt like I had nowhere to go,” she said. “I really believed that if I told anyone, I would go to jail.”

Representatives for Carter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from rolling stone.

“This accusation is categorically false, Nick is focused on his family and mourning the death of his brother,” said an unidentified source close to the singer. TMZwho first reported the lawsuit.

The lawsuit comes after Melissa Schuman, a former member of teen-pop group Dream, came forward in 2017 and accused Carter of sexually assaulting her in 2003, around the time they were filming the 2004 TV movie “The Hollow”. when she was 18.

Los Angeles County prosecutors investigated Schuman’s claim and ultimately declined to file a complaint, saying the allegation was outside the 10-year statute of limitations.

In a blog post that is no longer active, Schuman said Carter invited her and a friend to his Santa Monica residence for a “casual hangout.” Schuman said she was also a virgin at the time and Carter allegedly poured shots and then took her to a bathroom where he performed oral sex on her despite her protests.

“I told him to stop, but he didn’t. So I turned off the bathroom light to see nothing. He kept turning the light back on because he told me he wanted to look at me,” she wrote.

“I am shocked and saddened by Ms. Schuman’s accusations. Melissa never spoke to me while we were together or at any time because not everything we did was consensual,” Carter said in a statement to rolling stone at the time. “This is the first time I’ve heard of these accusations, nearly two decades later. It’s against my nature and everything I hold dear to intentionally cause discomfort or harm to somebody.

The new lawsuit filed Thursday also alleges that three women identified only as Jane Does accused Carter of similar conduct. He claims Jane Doe 2 was a 15-year-old girl at the time of her alleged abuse in 2003 and says she contracted HPV from Carter, an allegation also made by Ruth.

Jane Doe 1 similarly alleges abuse in 2003, and Jane Doe 3 alleges she was sexually assaulted by Carter at a party in Key West, Fla., in 2006, the filing says.

Boskovich said at the press conference that the lawsuit is withholding the women’s names “to preserve their privacy until they are ready to speak out.” He said his team interviewed the women.

Ruth’s civil action seeks monetary damages for past and future pain and suffering as well as punitive damages to be determined at trial.