Content warning: This story contains discussion of alleged sexual abuse.British writer Clinton Heylin, who has written extensively about the life and work of Bob Dylan, has claimed that recent sexual abuse allegations made against Dylan are “not possible” due to the claimant’s timeline of events.Last week, a woman sued Dylan for multiple incidents of sexual abuse that allegedly took place across a six-week period in April of 1965, when she was 12 years old.A lawsuit filed on August 13 in the Manhattan Supreme Court alleges that Dylan – then in his mid-20s – supplied the accuser with drugs and alcohol, before sexually abusing her at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.The lawsuit specifically accuses Dylan of assault, battery, false imprisonment.
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