During a press conference Thursday at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton hotel, an attorney for 39-year-old Shannon "Shay" Ruth said that Carter sexually assaulted his client in. 31 août 2023 · Shannon “Shay” Ruth filed her suit in December, alleging that Carter had raped her on a tour bus after a Backstreet Boys concert in 2001, when she was 17 and he was 21. Like Schuman, she.