Bob Dylan has won legal penalties against two lawyers who filed — and then quickly dropped — a lawsuit accusing the music legend of sexually abusing a child in the 1960s.

Filed in 2021, the case featured salacious allegations about Dylan, but music historians quickly said it wasn’t even chronologically plausible — and the unnamed accuser abruptly dismissed the case after the star’s lawyers accused her of destroying key evidence.

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