A lawsuit alleging Bob Dylan sexually abused a 12-year-old woman in 1965 has been dropped.
In a listening to on Thursday (July 28), the unidentified accuser — referred to solely as “J.C.” in court docket paperwork — requested the case to be dismissed “with prejudice.” The sudden motion got here after the protection crew alleged the plaintiff deleted essential messages associated to the case.
The unique lawsuit, filed in August of 2021, accused Dylan of abusing the girl greater than 50 years in the past, supplying her with medication and alcohol, threatening her with bodily violence and leaving her “emotionally scarred and psychologically broken to this present day.”
The singer-songwriter’s legal professionals had been fast to categorize the go well with as a “brazen shakedown masquerading as a lawsuit,” alleging the girl’s legal professionals had been simply trying “to revenue off of this fraudulent lawsuit.” Dylan’s representatives voiced comparable opinions upon the case’s dismissal.
“This case is over. It’s outrageous that it was ever introduced within the first place,” Dylan’s lawyer mentioned in an announcement to Billboard. “We’re happy that the plaintiff has dropped this lawyer-driven sham and that the case has been dismissed with prejudice.”
Components of the case had change into more and more convoluted within the days main as much as the dismissal.
At a July 15 listening to, the choose warned the plaintiff’s attorneys that they might face critical penalties if they didn’t flip over emails and textual content messages that had been requested for the case.
Days later, the accuser fired her legal professionals, a transfer Dylan’s authorized crew characterised as “designed to evade court-ordered doc manufacturing obligations and the specter of sanctions.” Dylan’s attorneys later claimed the plaintiff completely destroyed the emails and textual content messages in query.
The choice to dismiss the case “with prejudice” signifies that it is going to be completely closed and can’t be refiled.
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