Nick Carter has been given permission to move forward with a counterclaim against a woman who accused him of rape.
The Backstreet Boys star was sued by Shannon Ruth in 2022, who had alleged she was sexually assaulted on a tour bus in 2001 and on Tuesday (26.11.24), Nevada Supreme Court judge Nancy L. Allf denied the accuser's anti-SLAPP motion - a request to dismiss a lawsuit based on protected speech - against the singer's defamation countersuit because she had "failed to satisfy her burden".