Nation song megastar Garth Brooks has been accused of raping and battering a lady who claims she labored as his hairstylist and make-up artist – however the award-winning singer is keeping up his innocence, evaluating the allegations to “having a loaded gun waved” in his face.
The lawsuit, filed in a California court docket on Thursday through a lady most effective known as “Jane Roe,” states the singer allegedly raped her in a lodge room throughout a piece travel the place she felt “trapped” and abandoned with Brooks.
Along with sexual attack and battery, Brooks, 62, may be accused of again and again exposing his genitals and buttocks; speaking about intercourse and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe; often converting his clothes in entrance of her; and sending her sexually particular textual content messages, in line with the criticism within the case, obtained by CNN.
The swimsuit alleges those incidents took place in 2019.
“We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions,” lawyers Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker mentioned in a observation to CNN.
“We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks. The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood and in the rap and rock and roll industries but also in the world of country music.”
The girl who filed the swimsuit mentioned she was once first rented as a hair and make-up artist for Brooks’ spouse, Trisha Yearwood, in 1999, however was once moved to Brooks’ crew in 2017, the swimsuit states.
In her submitting, Roe accused the “Friends in Low Places” singer of raping her in a lodge room then the pair traveled abandoned in his non-public jet to Los Angeles for a Grammy taping in Might 2019, alleging the rustic megastar “appeared in the doorway to the bedroom, completely naked” making her really feel “trapped in the room alone with Brooks.”
“Usually there were others on Brooks’ private jet but this time, Ms. Roe and Brooks were the only two passengers,” the criticism states.
“Once in Los Angeles at the hotel, Ms. Roe could not believe that Brooks had booked a hotel suite with one bedroom and she did not have a separate room.”
Upcoming the alleged rape, Roe mentioned Brooks bodily groped her and made “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” together with his spouse, in line with the submitting.
Roe additionally accused Brooks, in any other alleged incident, of strolling out of his bathe bare pace the pair labored at his house, grabbing her arms and forcing them onto his genitals, pace he stated to her in a sexually particular approach, in line with CNN.
Brooks in the past denied his accuser’s allegations and tried to oppose Roe from publicly repeating her allegations, in line with a prior criticism he had filed as “John Doe,” CNN reported.
Brooks claimed that Roe’s legal professional despatched him a “confidential” call for letter alleging sexual misconduct then he declined her request for “salaried employment and medical benefits,” CNN reported. However Roe’s lawyers imagine the preemptive criticism was once an business of desperation to intimidate and quiet his accuser.
In a observation from his publicist, Brooks mentioned he filed the nameless criticism just about a while in the past for the “sake of families on both sides” and to talk out towards extortion and defamation of personality, CNN reported.
“For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” he mentioned.
“Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of – ugly acts no human should ever do to another.”
Brooks added that he needs to proceed taking part in song and his “good deeds” in the future however his middle “breaks” that his integrity is being wondered.
“I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be,” he mentioned.
