Nick Carter’s lawyer calls allegations in Fallen Idols docuseries ‘outrageous’

An attorney for Backstreet Boy Nick Carter has responded to allegations of sexual assault featured in a new Investigation Discovery docuseries about the singer and his late brother, Aaron Carter.

In Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, 3 women of all ages – Ashley Repp, cMelissa Schuman Henschel and Shannon “Shay” Ruth – explain alleged assaults in 2001 and 2003 that they have beforehand sued Nick Carter around.

Aaron Carter died in 2022 at age 34.

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When asked to comment on the documentary forward of its airing, which was in two pieces this week throughout Monday and Tuesday (Tuesday and Wednesday AEST), Dale Hayes Jr., Nick Carter’s attorney, advised CNN in a assertion: “These are exactly the identical outrageous promises that led us to sue this gang of conspirators.”

The ladies submitted three individual grievances from December 2022 to August 2023. Carter submitted two counterclaims in 2023 and 2024, the first in opposition to Henschel and Ruth and the 2nd against Repp.

“These cases are operating their way as a result of the authorized process now, and, based on both of those the initial court docket rulings and the frustrating proof, we have every perception that we will prevail and hold them accountable for spreading these falsehoods,” the statement from Nick Carter’s lawyer extra.

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The to start with two episodes of Fallen Idols aired Monday night time (Tuesday AEDT) and explored Henschel’s and Repp’s tales, as nicely as the brothers’ troubled property life whilst expanding up. 

The final two installments air on Tuesday evening (Wednesday AEST) on ID and will stream on Max. Ruth’s story is shared in the fourth episode.

Nick Carter declined to be interviewed by the filmmakers, in accordance to the documentary.

The accusations

Henschel, a previous pop singer with the lady team Dream, accused Nick Carter of using his “part, status, and electrical power as a perfectly-identified singer to acquire obtain to, groom, manipulate, exploit, and sexually assault” her in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles final calendar year, according to a copy of her grievance showcased on the Fallen Idols webpage.

In her lawsuit, Henschel claimed the alleged incident took area in 2003 at Carter’s property in Santa Monica when she was 18. The grievance alleged that Carter, who was 22 at the time, performed oral sex on her “against her will” and “pressured” Henschel to complete a sex act on him just before raping her. She statements she consistently told the singer that “she did not want to have intercourse”.

She reiterated these promises in the docuseries and seems all through the four episodes.

She to start with elevated the allegations against him in a 2017 entry posted to her individual blog. Owing to the statute of limitations that expired in 2013, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Business stated in a 2018 legal filing that they would not pursue sexual assault charges in opposition to Carter.

In 2022, California handed the Sexual Abuse and Address Up Accountability Act, which lets grownup survivors who meet up with specific conditions to file lawsuits in conditions exactly where the statute of restrictions has expired.

Henschel sued Carter in April 2023, online data show. In accordance to an amended complaint filed in October 2023, a copy of which is featured on the Fallen Idols web-site, Henschel sued Carter for sexual battery, sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.

Carter denied the allegations in a assertion supplied to CNN in 2017, expressing: “Melissa under no circumstances expressed to me even though we were being alongside one another or at any time given that that anything we did was not consensual. We went on to history a music and conduct alongside one another, and I was generally respectful and supportive of Melissa both personally and skillfully.”

“This is the first that I am listening to about these accusations, virtually two a long time later,” he added.

“It is opposite to my nature and anything I hold pricey to deliberately trigger somebody discomfort or harm.”

In the 2nd episode of Fallen Idols, Repp shares her account.

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Repp’s lawsuit alleging sexual battery, intentional infliction of psychological distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress was submitted applying just the initials A.R. in August 2023 and stems from two alleged incidents on Nick Carter’s boats in Marathon, Florida, in 2003, when Repp was 15 many years aged.

According to the complaint, Repp accuses Carter of supplying her with liquor “these types of that she was intoxicated at the time,” recognizing she was a small, and partaking in intercourse acts with her “without her consent.” Repp also alleges that in the course of the 2nd incident, he “promoted and enticed” his three male good friends on the boat to view him “engaging in sexual intercourse” with her.

Carter, in accordance to the criticism, “continued to engage in sexual intercourse with A.R. regardless of her recurring refusals and requests for him to halt.” Repp also alleged in the criticism that she contracted a sexually transmitted disorder subsequent the incident.

Carter denied Repp’s allegations in a countersuit submitted in January, information accessible on the web present.

Ruth, who will show up in Fallen Idols on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), filed a sexual battery lawsuit versus Carter in December 2022 accusing the singer of raping her on the Backstreet Boys’ tour bus in 2001 in Tacoma, Washington, when she was 17 decades old.

Carter denied the allegations in a assertion offered to CNN at the time from his attorney Michael Holtz, who characterized Ruth’s statements as “not only lawfully meritless but also totally untrue,” and later on filed a counterclaim against Ruth, Henschel and Henschel’s father Jerome Schuman in 2023.

In his January counterclaim, Carter alleges that Ruth’s and Repp’s “lawsuits are the end result of an approximate five-calendar year conspiracy orchestrated by Co-Conspirators to harass, defame and extort Carter,” according to a copy of the suit posted to the Fallen Idols web site.

“The campaign was released and bolstered by the #MeToo motion, beginning at its dawn, when Schuman posted a salacious web site entry in November 2017, falsely asserting that she had been sexually assaulted by Carter in 2003,” the counterclaim states.

CNN has arrived at out to attorneys for Henschel, Ruth and Repp, in addition to reps for Retrac Inc., executing small business as Kaotic Productions, which is also cited as a defendant in Schuman’s grievance.

The 3 situations continue being ongoing.

Assist is out there from the Nationwide Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Company at 1800Respect (1800 737 732).

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