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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Nick Carter, Backstreet Boys star, sued for alleged 2003 sexual assault of 15-year-old

Nick Carter performing in 2022.
Nick Carter performing in 2022. Photograph: ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy

Nick Carter, singer with pop group Backstreet Boys, has been sued by a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her, in the third such lawsuit he is currently facing.

The woman, identified as “AR”, alleges that Carter assaulted her across three separate incidents in 2003 when she was 15 and he was 23, and that Carter gave her the sexually transmitted infection HPV. She is seeking $15,000 in damages.

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