An unnamed girl who sued Bob Dylan final yr, alleging he sexually abused her in 1965 when she was 12 years outdated, withdrew her swimsuit yesterday. The event got here a day after Dylan’s attorneys claimed she destroyed key proof within the case, “irretrievably” compromising the lawsuit’s integrity. The accuser confronted a $50,000 sanction for the violation and the swimsuit can’t be refiled.
The voluntary dismissal comes a number of days after the accuser fired her attorneys throughout discovery.
The accuser, who goes by J.C., had alleged that Dylan sexually abused her between April and Might of 1965 when Dylan was both 23 or 24 years outdated (Dylan’s birthday is on Might 24) on the famed Chelsea Resort in New York Metropolis. As per the unique grievance, J.C. alleged that Dylan “exploited his standing as a musician by grooming J.C. to realize her belief and to acquire management over her as a part of his plan to sexually molest and abuse J.C.”
The swimsuit additionally claimed that Dylan gave J.C. medication and alcohol and that she “sustained bodily and psychological accidents” and continues to undergo to today because of the alleged abuse.
Dylan consultants, together with biographers Clinton Heylin and Anne Margaret Daniel, famous inconsistencies with the timing of the alleged incident, saying that the music icon wasn’t in New York Metropolis on the time.
“This case is over. It’s outrageous that it was ever introduced within the first place,” Dylan’s lead lawyer, Orin Snyder, stated 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.”
