Backstreet Boy Nick Carter facing third sexual assault suit

Nick Carter’s legal troubles are mounting. The Backstreet Boys member is facing a third sexual assault lawsuit, this time from a woman who alleges he assaulted her when she was 15.

In a complaint filed on Monday in Las Vegas — and reported by People on Thursday — a woman identified as “A.R.” alleged that Carter assaulted her multiple times in 2003.

In the filing, A.R. claimed that the singer “knowingly engaged” in sexual acts with her without her consent aboard a yacht, that he didn’t use protection, and that he instructed her to keep that incident a secret.

A.R. also alleged that, in another instance, Carter “knowingly provided [her with] alcohol and drugs” and “enticed three other men” to watch him “engaging in sexual intercourse with then-minor A.R. from a vantage point of an outside window in the cabin of Carter’s yacht,” despite her “repeated refusals and request for him to stop.”

Additionally, A.R. claimed that Carter transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV, to her.

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At the time, A.R. told her mother about the alleged assault and reported it to law enforcement in York County, Penn. In her new suit, she’s reportedly seeking damages of $15,000.

“The impacts of Carter’s sexual abuse are ceaseless, causing Plaintiff severe emotional distress, physical anguish, intimacy issues, and other complex trauma,” the filing states. “Plaintiff has experienced ongoing harassment from fans of Carter’s well known boy band, the Backstreet Boys, for decades.”

Two other women accused Carter of sexual assault via recent lawsuits. Shannon Ruth alleged in December 2022 that the boy-bander sexually assaulted her on a tour bus in 2001, according to TMZ. And in April, Melissa Schuman alleged that Carter raped her in his Santa Monica apartment in 2003, People reports.

Carter filed a countersuit against Ruth and Schuman in December 2022. In that suit, Carter claimed the women used the #MeToo movement to “defame and vilify Carter and otherwise ruin his reputation for the purposes of garnering attention and fame and/or extorting money from Carter.”

On Wednesday, a judge ruled Carter’s countersuit could continue.

Dale Hayes, a lawyer for Carter, said in a statement to People that A.R.’s lawsuit is based on “false” allegations — and he said that “all of the known co-conspirators will be brought to justice together.”

Hayes went on: “When A.R. first accused Nick Carter almost two decades ago, authorities listened and thoroughly investigated — and then informed A.R. that her allegations were meritless. And now she’s at it yet again. But repeating the same false allegations in a new legal complaint doesn’t make them any more true. Nick is looking forward to the evidence being presented and the truth about these malicious schemes coming to light.”