The famed vocal group “Backstreet Boys” member and American musician Nick Carter has allegedly been charged with rape.
According to News, a complaint was made on Thursday, alleging that Nick was accused of raping a woman during a concert in Washington state when she was 17 years old.
According to the lawsuit, Carter allegedly gave the woman HPV and threatened to have her locked up if she told anybody what had transpired.
“He also said he’d turn people against me because he’s Nick Carter and he would wreck my life,” the woman is quoted as saying in a news release from her lawyer, Mark Boskovich.
Carter’s lawyer Michael Holtz called the accusations “legally meritless” and “completely incorrect” in a statement.
Holtz said the woman had been “manipulated into making false allegations about Nick and those allegations have changed repeatedly and materially over time.”
“No one should be fooled by a press stunt orchestrated by an opportunistic lawyer — there is nothing to this claim whatsoever, which we have no doubt the courts will quickly realize,” he said.
As a result of the allegations, the US television network ABC has canceled a performance by Nick’s band, the “Backstreet Boys.”
Even though it was supposed to air on December 14, it was currently missing from ABC’s schedule of holiday specials.