The woman, identified only by her initials JC, is suing folk singer Bob Dylan, claiming he raped her after giving her drugs and alcohol in 1965 when she was 12 years old.
A spokesman for Dylan, now 80, said the accusations were false. “This 56-year-old statement is false and will be strongly defended,” the spokesman said.
In a civil lawsuit filed late Friday night in the New York Supreme Court, a woman identified only as JC stated that Dylan raped her in her New York apartment for six weeks, “leaving her emotionally traumatized to this day and psychologically damaged. “
The lawsuit states that Dylan, then in his early twenties, “took advantage of his status as a musician to give JC alcohol and drugs and rape her several times.” The claimant seeks compensation that is not specified. The lawsuit was filed within the statutory deadline in New York, which was established by new law in 2019 and which allows for longer trials for child sexual abuse claims – previously deadlines dictated that such allegations be dropped.
Bob Dylan, who retired from the Greenwich Village (NY) folk scene in the early 1960s, became one of the most influential and recognized artists of the rock era with themes such as Carried away by the wind e Like a rolling stone… More than 125 million albums have been sold worldwide and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016…
