Musical idol Bob Dylan has caught up in a controversy where a woman has put some major allegations of sexual abuse against the singer. She claims that the incident took place back in 1965 when she was 12 years old.
The US singer-songwriter is being accused of multiple cases of sexual abuse against the woman. It is said that he “exploited his status as a musician to provide with alcohol and drugs and sexually abuse her multiple times”.
The report further stated that the incident happened in New York’s Chelsea Hotel, at Dylan’s personal apartment. She said that the abusive period was six weeks long happened in April and May in the year 1965.
The woman who has come up with these allegations is 68 years old now and lives in Connecticut. She is identified by only her initials, for now, JC.
However, Bob Dylan’s spokesman has strongly opposed the allegation and said “the 56-year-old claim is untrue and will be vigorously defended”.
Looking back in time, the rockstar was in the UK for a tour from April to 10 May. The tour is documented in the film titled ‘Don’t Look Back’. Clinton Heylin’s ‘Dylan chronology A Life in Stolen Moments’ says that the artist was in the France, UK, and Portugal until the start of June.
Currently, the Nobel Prize winner singer is 80 years old and accused of sexual assault, false imprisonment, battery, and infliction of emotional distress.
JC said that the rockstar had has done “predatory, sexual and unlawful acts”. It has been “done intentionally by him to her without her consent”. She is seeking a jury trial and recovery for “severe psychological damage and emotional trauma”.
She also claimed that she has been suffering from “severe mental distress, anguish, humiliation, and embarrassment, as well as economic losses”.
A temporarily legal “look back window” in New York allowed filing allegations against historical abuses. JC filed the legal documents against the singer on Friday just before the closure of it.
Bob Dylan is the Grammy and Oscar winner world-renowned singer who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. He is the first artist to achieve this place.
The artist has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from earlier president Barack Obama, in 2012.
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