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Most of these are pretty substantiated, but Bowie's doesn't seem to hold water.
He seems to have 2 allegations of underaged sexual encounters: one was that he had sex with Dana Gillespie. Bowie himself was only 2 years older than her, and from what I can tell she has never said anything bad about the experience, just that they started hooking up when they were both young musicians.
The other claim was from Lori Matrix. She is famous now for claiming that she has sex with a ton of musicians in LA when she was a teenager. As the Wikipedia article mentions, some of her stories are more plausible than others, and there's a lot of holes in her account about Bowie.
I'm not a particular fan of Bowie (I find his music incredibly boring), and I'm all for listening to people who claim to be victims. But in Bowie's case it seems like Mattix may have just been with so many musicians she got mixed up.
Add in that Bowie was not straight, and the history of homophobes making accusations of pedophilia to persecute people, and that's probably why this idea that he was a sexual predator sticks around today.