Damaging down the vocalist’s recurring lawful fights

Nick Carter is taking legal action against Melissa Schuman, a previous participant of the woman team Desire, that charged him of raping her in 2003.

The Backstreet Boys vocalist submitted a lawful action to Schuman’s 2023 suit versus him for sexual offense and battery. His counterclaim refutes her claims and countersues her for $2.5 million, affirming that she purposefully libelled him with her claims.

This is among 3 sexual offense situations submitted versus the child band entertainer. He has actually rejected all claims of sexual offense and misuse and has actually countersued the various other accusers too.

What simply occurred?

Schuman and Carter recorded the teen scary movie The Hollow with each other in 2003. She later on saw his Santa Monica, Calif., home with a buddy and declares he offered her a sedative and sexually attacked her. Carter was 22 and Schuman was an 18-year-old virgin, she stated. In the days that complied with, she stated she independently exposed the claimed attack to her pal that was with her, the pal’s mommy, participants of her very own household and her specialist.

Fast-forward to 2017 when Schuman openly charged Carter of sexual offense on her blog site in the middle of the #MeToo motion. She submitted an authorities record versus him the list below year, yet Los Angeles detectives decreased to go after a situation as a result of the law of restrictions running out. In 2023, she submitted a legal action versus Carter after a 2022 The golden state legislation broadened the law of restrictions for sexual offense situations.

Carter’s cross-complaint is a reaction to her April 2023 suit. Submitted July 26 in the Superior Court of The Golden State in Los Angeles Area and gotten by Individuals and Selection on Aug. 13, Carter declares Schuman made incorrect and libelous declarations when she openly charged him of sexual offense in her article along with in succeeding interview and meetings. (Schuman just recently shared her tale in the docudrama Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter)

Carter declares their sex-related experience was consensual. He affirms Schuman was inspired to make incorrect allegations to aid her “diminishing profession” in the middle of her “crave net importance” and intentionally made the cases to “harm Carter’s credibility” and profession. He claims he shed millions in recommendation take care of brand names consisting of MeUndies, Vrbo and Roblox. Carter, that is requiring $2.5 million in problems, likewise charged Schuman and her daddy of recruiting and brushing 3rd parties to disparage him.

In the declaring, Carter rejected “every” allegation made by Schuman in her suit. It mentioned: “Carter did not sexually attack” her.

⚖ Carter’s lawful problems

This is not Carter’s only sexual offense suit, neither is it his only disparagement situation.

The vocalist, that remains to explore with the Backstreet Boys, is likewise secured a lawful fight with accuser Shannon “Shay” Ruth, that sued him for sex-related battery in December 2022. Ruth’s situation, submitted in Clark Area, Nev., declared that Carter raped her after a Backstreet Boys show in 2001 when she was 17 years of ages.

In action to Ruth’s suit, Carter filed a defamation countersuit in Nevada in February 2023, calling Ruth and Schuman as offenders. He charged the females of benefiting from the #MeToo motion to release an “managed” project to “disparage and damn” him “to gather popularity and obtain Carter out of cash.”

Schuman’s lawyer Karen Barth Menzies described both lawful situations in a brand-new declaration to Individuals, claiming, “Carter’s The golden state counterclaim makes the very same disagreements as his stalled Nevada suit, and both reveal that his strategy to protect sexual offense cases is to assault the sufferers.”

Furthermore, in August 2023, Carter was taken legal action against by a 3rd female, determined as “A.R,” for claimed sex-related battery, willful infliction of psychological distress and irresponsible infliction of psychological distress as reasons for activity. She asserted, in her Nevada declaring, that Carter “purposefully given alcohol and medications” in 2003, when she was 15 and he remained in his very early 20s, and sexually attacked her on a bus and a private yacht in Florida.

Carter’s lawful group asserted A.R. granted making love and informed him and others that she was 18.

Carter has actually because included A.R. to his disparagement countersuit versus Ruth and Schuman in January 2024. According to Wanderer, A.R.’s civil suit versus Carter has actually currently been combined with Ruth’s under the very same court in Nevada.

Ladies described allegations in docuseries

The 3 accusers– with A.R. later on determined as Ashley– offered meetings outlining their cases versus Carter in the four-part Examination Exploration docuseries Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, which premiered in Might.

Carter– that shares 3 youngsters with partner Lauren Kitt– responded to the doc via his lawyer, claiming, “These are precisely the very same horrendous cases that led us to sue this gang of accomplices. Those situations are functioning their means via the lawful system currently, and, based upon both the preliminary court judgments and the frustrating proof, we have every idea that we will certainly dominate and hold them answerable for spreading out these fallacies.”

If you or a person you recognize has actually been sexually attacked, assistance is readily available. RAINN’s National Sexual offense Hotline is right here for survivors 24/7 with complimentary, confidential assistance. 800-656-HOPE (4673) and online.rainn.org.