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Backstreet Boy Accused of Raping Autistic 17-Year-Old Fan in 2001
Backstreet Boy Nick Carter has been accused of raping a woman, then 17 years old, after a concert in Tacoma, Washington, in 2001.
In a complaint filed in Clark County, Nevada, Shannon Ruth, who is autistic and suffers from cerebral palsy, had alleged that Carter invited her onto his tour bus when she was waiting for an autograph. There, she claims, he gave her a strange drink he called “VIP Juice,” then took her to the bathroom, exposed himself, and ordered her to perform sexual acts on him. She claims he then took her to the back of the tour bus, where he raped her.
Ruth further claims that Carter infected her with HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, and when she said she would tell people what he’d done, he threatened that he’d ruin her life, no one would believe her, and she would go to jail.
In a statement, Carter’s attorney described Ruth’s claims as “legally meritless” and “entirely untrue” and claimed that she had been “manipulated into making false allegations” against Carter, which had “changed repeatedly and materially over time.”
Ruth’s lawyer claims to have spoken to three other women that Carter allegedly sexually assaulted and infected with HPV. In 2017, singer Melissa Schuman accused Carter of having sexually assaulted her in 2003. However, the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office did not investigate because the statute of limitations on her claim had expired.
In light of these allegations, ABC has canceled an upcoming holiday special, “A Very Backstreet Holiday.”
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Nick Carter Responds to Sexual Battery Lawsuit, Calls Accusations ‘Entirely Untrue’
Nick Carter Responds To Rape Allegation From Woman With Cerebral Palsy
As Nick Carter mourns the death of his brother, he now faces serious allegations of sexual assault. Last month, Nick’s younger brother Aaron Carter passed away just one month ago, and investigators continue to await toxicology reports. Meanwhile, a 39-year-old woman has sued Nick Carter for an alleged incident that she claims occurred in 2001 on a Backstreet Boys tour bus.
Shannon “Shay” Ruth with cerebral palsy and autism reportedly filed a sexual battery lawsuit against the music icon. She alleges that Carter raped her in Tacoma, Washington, after plying her with alcohol when she was 17 years old.
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CNN reports in Ruth’s lawsuit, she states she was “picked out of a line of autograph seekers.” Then, she was invited to spend time with Carter on the tour bus. It was there that she says she was given “VIP juice,” assuming it was “cranberry juice and alcohol.” Ruth says she later learned she was diagnosed with the sexually transmitted disease HPV, or the Human Papillomavirus.
“The last 21 years have been filled with pain, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-harm that are a direct result of Nick Carter raping me,” she said during a press conference.
In light of the allegations, ABC has canceled their upcoming television special A Very Backstreet Holiday. Additionally, Carter responded to the accusation with denials.
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“This claim about an incident that supposedly took place more than 20 years ago is not only legally meritless but also entirely untrue,” the singer said in a statement. “Unfortunately, for several years now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into making false allegations about Nick – and those allegations have changed repeatedly and materially over time.”
This isn’t the first time that Nick Carter has been accused of sexual assault. In 2017, singer Melissa Schuman also accused Carter of raping her when she was 15. He denied those allegations, as well. Carter’s late brother also publicly came forward to accuse the Backstreet Boys star of sexually assaulting multiple women. The siblings later reconciled before Aaron’s passing.
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Soulja Boy And Lil Yachty Are Being Sued For An Alleged Cryptocurrency Scam
Cryptocurrency is still one of the hottest commodities on the modern digital market, despite no one really knowing what it is or how it works. It’s also highly susceptible to theft and scams — as a slew of celebrities including Lil Yachty and Soulja Boy are finding out via a class-action lawsuit against them, according to Complex and ClassAction.org. The two Atlanta rappers, along with YouTubers Jake Paul and Ben Phillips, as well as former Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, are all named as promoters of SafeMoon, a cryptocurrency founded by Braden John Karony, in exchange for tokens.
According to the suit, the SafeMoon currency ultimately amounted to a pump and dump scheme, which is when scammers hype up an effectively worthless commodity to artificially raise its price, then pull out of the commodity before it crashes. The movie Boiler Room explains it pretty well. This is more or less what happened with SafeMoon, which was created in March 2021 and had completely crashed by December, hitting a low of $0.0000006521 per token on New Year’s Eve. “As of the filing of this Complaint,” the lawsuit reads, “the trading volume for the SafeMoon Token has plummeted to around only $60,000.” The height of volume, $191.6 million on April 22. The key to SafeMoon’s “slow rug pull” was “token burns,” removing a certain number of tokens from circulation.
As tokens were “burnt,” more investors bought in, inflating the price of the remaining tokens. As the value began to drop, another “burn” was employed to bump the value again. Eventually, as trading volume fell, chief technology officer Hank Wyatt resigned, selling off his tokens to investors ahead of the failed launch of SafeMoon’s digital wallet. According to the suit, Wyatt would have or should have known that the wallet would not be ready. A day later SafeMoon COO Jack Haines-Davies also resigned, which dropped the price of the tokens from $0.000000153 to $0.00000119.