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 abuse her many times.”
Additionally, Dylan, who turned 81 in May, was charged with endangering the youngster bodily in the lawsuit.
At the time a spokesperson for Dylan, who was born Robert Zimmerman, had dubbed the accusation “untrue.”
In a letter Dylan’s legal team filed with the federal court on Wednesday, they accused the plaintiff of deleting important text messages, and suggested that “monetary sanctions” were necessary.
On Thursday Dylan’s lawyers said the plaintiff had dropped the case. Lawyers for the plaintiff did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.
“This case is over,” said Dylan’s lead counsel, Orin Snyder, in a statement given 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 claims were or whether the statute of limitations had run out, the act permitted abuse victims to bring legal action against their alleged assailants.
