Bob Dylan’s legal professionals have formally denied allegations he groomed a 12-year-old woman for weeks, fed her medication and sexually abused her repeatedly in 1965.
Dismissing her ‘ludicrous’ claims, the authorized group stated the accuser, generally known as JC, has additionally claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens and flown their spaceship.
She filed the lawsuit in August, claiming the singer-songwriter, now 80, tried to ‘decrease her inhibitions with the thing of sexually abusing her, which he did, coupled with the availability of medicine, alcohol and threats of bodily violence, leaving her emotionally scarred and psychologically broken to this present day’.
Bob Dylan’s legal professionals have formally denied allegations he groomed a 12-year-old woman for weeks, fed her medication and sexually abused her repeatedly in 1965
She initially stated the abuse befell over a six-week interval between April and Might in 1965 together with on the Chelsea Lodge in New York, which was as soon as residence to well-known artists equivalent to Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper and Joni Mitchell.
However final week the lawsuit was amended to say it befell over ‘a number of months’.
The musician’s legal professionals hit again on the ‘brazen shakedown’ calling her claims ‘false, malicious, reckless and defamatory’.
In addition they tried to undermine credibility, saying she is a psychic who claims she was kidnapped by aliens and might channel lifeless individuals.
Within the court docket paperwork, the legal professionals word that JC, now 68, has stated publicly she has piloted a spaceship after her kidnapped and channeled the lifeless spirit of escapologist Harry Houdini.
The accuser initially stated the abuse befell over a six-week interval between April and Might in 1965 (pictured: Dylan in 1965)
The accuser claims she will additionally converse with dwelling and lifeless animals and might learn tea lives, espresso grinds and lipstick smudges, the submitting reads.
They stated: ‘Mr Dylan is not going to be extorted. Mr Dylan will vigorously defend himself in opposition to these lawyer-driven lies and search redress in opposition to all these accountable, together with by looking for financial sanctions in opposition to individuals chargeable for manufacturing and bringing this abusive lawsuit.’
JC’s lawyer Peter Gleason stated in response: ‘Neither my consumer or her counsel are going to be bullied. Greater than half of Individuals imagine in psychic phenomena.
‘If you are going to assault anyone for his or her beliefs, you are encroaching upon very harmful territory.
‘That is what this nation is predicated on, freedom of beliefs. It should not divert our consideration from the allegations. This case is in regards to the info.’
Dylan’s legal professionals have stated the timeframe is a ‘chronological impossibility’.
Among the alleged abuse occurred on the famed Chelsea Lodge, which was as soon as residence to musicians and artists together with Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Joni Mitchell
Others have supported this, with music author Clinton Heylin saying it was ‘not doable’ for Dylan to be in New York lengthy sufficient to span the alleged abuse.
The Blowin’ within the Wind star was jetting between England, Los Angeles and Woodstock on the time, he says.
However JC’s authorized group say Dylan’s itinerary is in line with their claims.
The lawsuit claims assault, battery, false imprisonment and emotional misery.
It seeks compensatory, punitive and exemplary damages based mostly on bodily and emotional accidents from her time with the singer.
‘J.C. sustained bodily and psychological accidents, together with however not restricted to, extreme emotional and psychological misery, humiliation, fright, disassociation, anger, melancholy, anxiousness, private turmoil and lack of religion, a extreme shock to her nervous system, bodily ache and psychological anguish, and emotional and psychological injury.’
The results of the alleged abuse ‘are of a everlasting and lasting natures and have incapacitated plaintiff from attending her common actions,’ the swimsuit states.
No listening to date has but been set for the case.