Bob Dylan sued for alleged sexual abuse of 12-year-old in 1960s
Al Jazeera
Music legend’s spokesman says the allegations brought by an unnamed woman were false and will be ‘vigorously defended’.
An unnamed woman has sued folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, alleging he sexually abused her after giving her drugs and alcohol in 1965 when she was 12 years old. A spokesman for Dylan, 80, said the allegations were false. “The 56-year-old claim is untrue and will be vigorously defended,” the spokesman said. In a civil lawsuit filed late on Friday with the New York Supreme Court, the woman – identified only as J C – said Dylan sexually abused her at his New York apartment over a six-week period between April and May in 1965, “leaving her emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged to this day”.
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