'N Sync Lawsuit Paperwork Finds Its Way Online
(1/3/01)

The lawsuit filed against 'N Sync singer Justin Timberlake by 15-year-old Danielle McGuire in a St. Louis, Missouri, circuit court has been posted on the website thesmokinggun.com. The site is known for posting celebrity-related official documents that often don't find their way online by any other means. Besides Timberlake, the four other members of 'N Sync are named as defendants as a partnership, the group's management company--Wright Entertainment Group, Inc., Chase Park Plaza Limited Partnership, and the group's production company, Zeeks, Inc.

The suit stems from an alleged incident following an 'N Sync concert on November 19 in St. Louis. The plaintiff, McGuire, claims assault, false imprisonment, and battery. McGuire says that when Timberlake quickly rushed past fans waiting in the Chase Park Plaza hotel lobby, she yelled, "I like J.C. better anyway. He's cuter." McGuire alleges that she was then promptly taken to a remote location of the hotel by security guards and "was verbally abused, and both verbally and physically intimidated by Justin Timberlake."

The suit claims that McGuire "suffered from fright, shock, intimidation, severe emotional distress, bodily harm, embarrassment, humiliation, and distress" as a result of the actions of the defendants. Unfortunately for 'N Sync, the public document, which is now posted on the website, also lists the home addresses of the five individual group members.