Bob Dylan allegedly sexually abused a twelve year old girl.
The artist denies the allegations.
Los Angeles - Serious allegations against Bob Dylan.
The world-famous singer is said to have sexually abused a twelve-year-old girl in 1965.
"Dylan has used his status as a musician to gain the trust of a young girl," says the indictment, which is available to the US news portal Daily Beast.
According to the indictment, 80-year-old Bob Dylan *, who was born Robert Allen Zimmermann on May 24, 1941, first gave his victim alcohol and drugs before he sexually abused them.
All of this is said to have happened at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, New York.
Dylan was 23 or 24 years old at the time and had lived in the hotel in question in the USA * for several years.
Bob Dylan sued for abuse - artist dismisses allegations
The later Nobel Prize winner for literature, Bob Dylan, has sharply rejected the abuse allegations against him.
A spokesman for the artist announced in a statement on Monday that the allegations are "untrue" and that they will vigorously defend themselves against them.
This is reported by the German press agency.
The allegations against Bob Dylan include assault as well as causing emotional distress.
The plaintiff is still suffering from the consequences of the emotional trauma that Dylan inflicted on her with his actions.
She is now demanding an undisclosed amount of damages.
According to information from the Daily Beast, she is a 68-year-old woman who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The prosecution is protected by the New York's Child Victim Act, which allows underage victims of sexual violence to bring charges decades after the crime.
Bob Dylan: $ 300 million from Sony
Bob Dylan is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
He celebrated his breakthrough with the songs "Blowin 'in the Wind" (1963) and "Like A Rolling Stone" (1965).
In 2000 he received the Oscar for the best movie song of the year for his song “Things have changed”.
In 2008 Dylan received the Pulitzer Prize and in 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In his career he has sold over 100 million records.
A sale of his music * to the world's largest music group Universal Music is said to have brought the artist in more than 300 million US dollars.
(Daniel Dillmann)
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