More than anything, for an elderly man of generally good reputation to face discreditation at a time he is brilliantly topping and tailing his vast legacy to the world, is a tragedy.

Particularly, when the allegations involve sexual abuse.

And at 80-years-old this is what Bob Dylan is facing. But finally, through his lawyers, he is publicly fighting back.

Yep. Bob’s been a bit of a lad, drinking, cavorting, in and out of love, in and out of beds, flying and crashing. Yep, he’s been out there making money, working hard getting to the top of his profession, buying cars and houses.

And in that way, he’s just like the rest of us … he made his own dreams come true. It has to be said too that along the way he showed so many of us the way to our own.

But now, in his dotage, he is staring into his dream gone wrong.

And it is getting like a psycho nightmare from one of his mid-60s songs.

Dylan’s lawyers, according to reports, say  that his accuser is a strange psychic who claims she was abducted by aliens.

This is said in court papers filed a few days ago,

The woman, who filed her suit last August alleges that in 1965 when she was 12 years old our rock’n’roll hero plied her with alcohol and drugs and sexually abused her at the Chelsea Hotel.

She remembers it well…

But in the latest filings, Dylan’s lawyers say that the woman’s accusations are “fantastical and fictitious being exploited for financial gain.”

The lawyers say that JC – we all know who she is but can’t say – claims on her website that she is a psychic who can channel deceased families members for those in mourning.

The lawyers say the accuser has publicly claimed to have piloted a spaceship during an alien abduction and channelled early 20th century famed escape artist Harry Houdini.

Dylan’s lawyers claim her suit is filled with “ludicrous” allegations that are “chronologically impossible” — and “a pernicious attempt to extort Mr. Dylan.”

This is supported by Dylan experts who say the time and place of the allegations don’t fit in with Dylan’s touring commitments.

The claims in the suit say the assaults happened in April and May. But Dylan was overseas for the majority of May, playing almost a dozen dates in England detailed in setlists.

He was also all over on the West Coast in April, playing in Berkeley, California. (April 3); Vancouver, British Columbia (April 9); Portland, Ore. (April 23); and Seattle (April 30).

Swedish researcher Olof Bjorner, who documents Dylan’s live performances and recording sessions has highlighted these events.

Then on April 25, Dylan went from Seattle to the UK to begin his Don’t Look Back tour, Rolling Stone magazine says. Upon arrival in England, he gave a press conference at the airport, which documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker seen in his 1967 film Don’t Look Back.

The tour ran from April 30 to May 10, then he flew to Portugal with Sara, says Dylan scholar, Prof Anne Margaret Daniel. Dylan then returned to London on May 23 where he actually went in to hospital for a number of days.

One of J.C.’s legal team said in repost that more than half of Americans believe in psychic phenomena.

Now, let’s face it, if Bob and his lawyers have got it wrong and he is guilty, then he deserves his own cold irons bound.

But if he isn’t and so many of us want to believe that … well.

Yet, this isn’t the only claim hounding at his heels – the estate of a Dylan’s co-writer Jacques Levy wants a court to revive a lawsuit seeking a cut of the estimated $300 million sale.

Bob’s lawyers are demanding the courts throw out this renewed claim.

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