translated from Spanish: Woman accused Bob Dylan of sexually abusing her when she was 12

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl after giving her drugs and alcohol in his New York apartment in 1965, according to a new complaint filed in the Big Apple, local media reported Monday. The lawsuit notes that the legendary musician used his status to gain the trust of the alleged victim “as part of a plan to sexually assault and abuse her,” notes documentation filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, which identifies the complainant only as J.C.” Bob Dylan, in a period of six weeks between April and May 1965, befriended and established an emotional connection with the complainant,” adds the legal document, filed last Friday by the alleged victim, a 68-year-old woman from the town of Greenwich (Connecticut). In addition, he accuses Dylan, real name Robert Allen Zimmerman, of establishing this connection so that the alleged victim would be less restrained from “sexually abusing her” with the help of “drugs, alcohol, and threats of physical violence,” which caused her emotional and psychological damage that endures “to this day.” The alleged abuse carried out by the person responsible for “Blowin’ in the Wind” occurred on numerous occasions, he alleges, some of them in Dylan’s apartment in the famous Chelsea Hotel.La complainant alleges that the actions of the singer-songwriter, 81, have led him to suffer permanent depression and anxiety that have not allowed him to carry out normal activities. Specifically, he is accused of assault, assault, unlawful detention and emotional harm, something Dylan’s representative has denied to the website Page Six.” These 56-year-old allegations are not true and will be vehemently defended,” said the artist’s lawyer, Daniel Isaacs. “The complaint speaks for itself,” he added. The lawsuit was filed Friday, a day before the end of the period that had opened in New York to file child sexual abuse charges that had expired under a law passed in the state in February 2019.

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