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New York — A lady who sued Bob Dylan for allegedly sexually abusing her when she was 12 has dropped her case, simply after the folk-rock artist’s criminal group accused her of destroying proof.
In August of ultimate 12 months the plaintiff, who stays unnamed and was known best as J.C., had filed a swimsuit alleging that Dylan abused her over a six-week length between April and May of 1965.
It alleged Dylan “exploited his status as a musician” to supply “alcohol and drugs and sexually abuse her multiple times” on the famed Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan.
The swimsuit additionally accused Dylan, who grew to become 81 in May, of bodily threatening the lady.
At the time, a spokesperson for Dylan, who was born Robert Zimmerman, had dubbed the accusation “untrue.”
A letter Dylan’s criminal group filed with the federal courtroom Wednesday accused the plaintiff of deleting vital textual content messages and recommended “monetary sanctions” have been vital.
On Thursday, Dylan’s attorneys mentioned the plaintiff had dropped the case. Her attorneys didn’t instantly reply to an AFP request for remark.
“This case is over,” mentioned Dylan’s lead recommend, Orin Snyder, in a remark to AFP. “It is outrageous that it was ever brought in the first place. We are pleased that the plaintiff has dropped this lawyer-driven sham and that the case has been dismissed with prejudice.”
The plaintiff’s lawsuit was filed ultimate summer season, an afternoon ahead of the window for submitting claims underneath New York State’s Child Victims Act closed.
The law allowed sufferers of abuse to sue their alleged attackers irrespective of the age of the claims or whether or not the statute of boundaries had handed.