Just after Bob Dylan’s legal team accused her of deleting evidence, the lady who had sued him for allegedly molesting her when she was 12 abandoned her lawsuit.
The complainant, who went by the name J.C. and filed the lawsuit in August of last year, said that Dylan had assaulted her for six weeks between April and May of 1965.
At the renowned Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, it was claimed that Dylan “exploited his stature as a singer” to give “drink and drugs and sexually assault her many times.”
Additionally, Dylan, who turned 81 in May, was charged with endangering the youngster bodily in the lawsuit.
A representative for Dylan, real name Robert Zimmerman, had called the charge “untrue” at the time.
Dylan’s legal team claimed in a document submitted to the federal court on Wednesday that the plaintiff had deleted crucial text conversations and that “monetary consequences” were required.
Dylan’s attorneys announced on Thursday that the plaintiff has withdrawn the claim. An AFP request for comment was not immediately answered by her attorneys.
“This case is over,” said Dylan’s lead counsel, Orin Snyder, in a statement to AFP. “It is outrageous that it was ever brought in the first place. We are pleased that the plaintiff has dropped this lawyer-driven sham and that the case has been dismissed with prejudice.”
One day before the deadline for submitting claims under the Child Victims Act of New York State expired, the plaintiff’s complaint was filed last summer.
No matter how old the accusations were or whether the statute of limitations had run out, the law permitted abuse victims to bring legal action against their alleged abusers.