80-yr-old Bob Dylan says he will fight all allegations of child abuse dating back to 56 years ago to 1965.
The lawsuit alleges that Dylan, given name Robert Allen Zimmerman, abused the plaintiff multiple times.
The lawsuit alleges Dylan plied a 12-year-old girl with drugs and alcohol before sexually abusing her in April and May 1965 reports the Guardian. Dylan would have been 23 or 24 at the time the alleged abuse took place.
The child in the complaint is now 68 years old and alleges Dylan exploited his status as a musician by grooming her “to gain her trust and to obtain control over her as part of his plan to sexually molest and abuse” her.
According to the complaint, the emotional effects of the abuse on the child (known for the purposes of the lawsuit as JC) included depression, humiliation and anxiety that “are of a permanent and lasting natures and have incapacitated plaintiff from attending her regular activities”.
The lawsuit comes on the last day of New York State’s Child Victim Act look-back window, which closed Saturday, 14 August. The law offered reprieve for adults time-barred from filing civil suits for abuse suffered as children.
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