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Nick Carter has been sued by a fan who claims the singer raped her on a tour bus when she was underage in 2001.
Shannon Ruth was 17 years old when Carter invited her to hop on the bus while she was waiting for an autograph, according to a civil lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Las Vegas, where they both live. Carter would have been 21 at the time.
The bus was parked outside the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, where the Backstreet Boys performed two back-to-back dates in February of that year.