“That is simply extra of the identical nonsense from the gang of conspirators and their attorneys who proceed to abuse the justice system to attempt to damage Nick Carter,” the attorneys mentioned in an announcement to TMZ. “It is drawn from the identical predictable playbook—lie in wait for many years till Mr. Carter is celebrating an expert milestone, then conceal behind litigation privilege to make totally false claims in an try to inflict most injury on Nick and his household.”
Penly said in her submitting, per TMZ, that Carter had advised her to maintain the assault to herself as a result of nobody would imagine her.”
In an announcement to Folks, Carter’s representatives added, “Nick doesn’t recall ever even assembly Laura Penly. He definitely by no means had any romantic or sexual relationship together with her. Ever.”
Carter has confronted earlier sexual assault allegations relationship again to 2017 from no less than 4 separate girls together with Melissa Schuman, Ashley Repp, Shannon Ruth and former fiancée Melanie Martin, all of whom detailed their allegations within the 2024 documentary Fallen Idols.
Carter—who shares children Odin, 9, Saoirse, 5, and Pearl, 4, with spouse Laura Kitt—has maintained his innocence all through the slew of allegations, and even tried to file a countersuit for defamation in opposition to Schuman—who had publicly accused him of sexual assault in 2017 for a 2003 prevalence—though a choose later dominated that he couldn’t transfer ahead with the lawsuit.