A third woman has filed a sexual assault lawsuit on Monday against Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter, alleging he assaulted her multiple times when she was 15. The suit, filed by a Jane Doe identified as A.R., claims the incidents occurred several times on a yacht and once in the …
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On the second Gothenburg stop of their current Music of the Spheres tour, Coldplay surprised fans with a pared down version of the Backstreet Boys’ 1997 hit “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).” As seen in a video of the performance, Chris Martin sang the hook with the entire stadium accompanying him. The …
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It’s 3.44 a.m. in the Strait of Dover and I’m lying awake on the top bunk of a tour bus parked on a ferry headed from France to the U.K. It’s been a day my 16-year-old Backstreet Boys-loving self could only have dreamed of — lunching with Howie Dorough, watching …
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HARTFORD, Connecticut—Welcome to 90s Con, where the Nineties live on. The decade where all that glitters is gold. Fans of 1990s pop culture have made the pilgrimage here on an arctic March day for a weekend of time travel, transforming the Connecticut Convention Center into a pastel love-fest. Reality? Adulthood? …
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Just when you thought you couldn’t get enough of Austin Butler’s Elvis voice, the man is back with several more renditions of classic Presley songs, now available on the deluxe edition of the Elvis soundtrack. The new release — out today, March 7 — adds 15 songs to the already …
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A woman who accused Nick Carter of raping her back in 2001 when she was 17 claims in a new legal filing that the Backstreet Boy singer’s countersuit is an attempt to “silence” her. The new filing from Shannon “Shay” Ruth, who alleged Carter raped her during the boy band’s …
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Nick Carter has filed a countersuit against a rape accuser who came forward this past December, claiming the Backstreet Boys singer had sexually assaulted her when she was 17. The 43-year-old’s counter-complaint was filed against Shannon Ruth in Nevada on Thursday, according to court papers obtained by Rolling Stone. Carter …
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No one ruled the Nineties music scene as MTV did. And who better to talk about it than the children of the artists who dominated it? On Monday, Viacom announced MTV’s Family Legacy, an upcoming music docuseries about Nineties’ pop culture seen through the perspective of the kids of that …
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ABC has pulled the plug on “A Very Backstreet Holiday,” the Christmas special filmed by the Backstreet Boys earlier this month, Variety reports. The show was initially scheduled to air on Dec. 14 but has been scrapped by the network following new sexual assault allegations against Nick Carter. “A Very …
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Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter is facing a new claim he raped a 17-year-old girl on a bus during the boy band’s Black & Blue concert tour in 2001. Accuser Shannon “Shay” Ruth filed a sexual battery lawsuit in Clark County, Nevada, on Thursday claiming Carter picked her out of …
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