Bob Dylan accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old in 1965, Nobel laureate dismisses it as ‘unfaithful’

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been sued by a girl who claims he sexually abused her in 1965 when she was 12, an allegation the Nobel Prize winner has known as “untrue.”

The lawsuit filed final week on behalf of JC, now a 68-year-old girl residing in Greenwich, Connecticut, alleges that Dylan, then 23 or 24-year-old, exploited his standing as a musician to supply (the plaintiff) “with alcohol and drugs and sexually abuse her multiple times.”

A spokesperson for Dylan, now 80, stated the “the 56-year-old claim is untrue and will be vigorously defended.”

According to Deadline, within the papers filed on the New York Supreme Court below the state’s Child Victims Act, JC stated the abuse passed off at Dylan’s house in New York’s Chelsea Hotel for over a six-week interval from April-May 1965.

As per the criticism, JC claims that Dylan established a “connection” together with her to “decrease her inhibitions with the item of sexually abusing her, which he did, coupled with the availability of medication, alcohol and threats of bodily violence, leaving her emotionally scarred and psychologically broken to this present day”.

The lawsuit cites causes together with assault, battery false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional misery, and seeks compensatory, punitive and exemplary damages.

Dylan, whose actual identify is Robert Allen Zimmerman, was already a preferred identify within the New York music scene throughout Sixties, performing and writing songs that gave voice to the anti-war and Civil Rights actions.

Since then he has been honoured with a number of Grammys, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize for Literature.