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Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter Faces Fourth Sexual-Assault Allegation

The woman claims she contracted HPV and was diagnosed with cervical cancer afterward.

As a result, she said in the lawsuit, she contracted HPV, leading her to be diagnosed with stage-two cervical cancer later in 2005. Penley was asked to testify in the other women’s cases, she claimed in her lawsuit, and has been harassed by Carter’s fans as a result. Carter’s lawyers accused her of working with the other woman to thwart the Backstreet Boys’ summer residency at the Sphere, celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 13-times platinum album Millennium.

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