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"There is no truth to this story," the Canadian
pop star, 26, wrote in a lengthy series of Twitter posts on
Sunday. He said he would be taking legal action.
"Every claim of sexual abuse should be taken very seriously and
this is why my response was needed. However this story is
factually impossible and that is why I will be working with
twitter and authorities to take legal action," Bieber added.
Bieber, who shot to fame at age 13, was responding to an
accusation on Saturday on Twitter by a woman called Danielle.
Danielle wrote that she was sexually assaulted by the singer at
a hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 9, 2014, after he made a
surprise appearance at the South by Southwest music festival.
The Twitter posting has since been deleted and Danielle, who
said she was 21 and Bieber was 20 at the time and that she was
posting anonymously, could not be traced for further comment.
Bieber on Sunday produced detailed hotel receipts, emails and
news reports that he said backed up his claim that he was
staying with his then-girlfriend Selena Gomez and other friends
at different locations in Austin the day of the alleged assault.
The singer's representatives did not reply to a request for
further comment on Monday.
The "Love Yourself" singer married childhood sweetheart Hailey
Baldwin in 2018 and in February released his first album in four
years after canceling a world tour and retreating from the
public eye to deal with depression and the effects of early
fame.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Howard Goller)
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