Nick Carter has again been given the go ahead to sue his rape accuser for defamation.
The Backstreet Boys star was accused of sexual assault in a 2017 blog post by Melissa Schuman, who alleged he raped her in his Santa Monica apartment when she was 18 and still a virgin back in 2003, and on Tuesday (28.01.25), the Nevada Supreme Court rejected the accuser's appeal from a previous ruling and once again denied her anti-SLAPP motion - a request to dismiss a lawsuit based on protected speech - because the 45-year-old singer had provided enough evidence to suggest the former Dream singer and her father Jerry had knowingly "published defamatory statements" about him.
