Accusations from the past facing Bob Dylan

A Dylan spokesperson: The allegations are incorrect.

Reuters

American singer-songwriter and Nobel Prize-winning poet Bob Dylan is facing a new lawsuit alleging that he rendered a 12-year-old girl unconscious before sexually assaulting her in 1965.

The lawsuit stated that the singer "befriended and had an affair with the plaintiff", who was identified in Manhattan Supreme Court papers only as "GC", and he lured her over a six-week period from April to May 1965, according to the Guardian newspaper. " British.

The lawsuit, filed late Friday on behalf of JC, who is now 68 and lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, alleges that Dylan, who was 23 or 24 at the time, "abused his status as a musician by soliciting ( JC) to gain her trust and control as part of his plan to harass and assault her.

GC is seeking unspecified damages for these allegations.

For his part, a spokesman for Dylan, who is now 80 years old, told the newspaper "The Guardian" that these allegations are incorrect, and that they will be vigorously addressed.

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