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Country music star Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault and battery in a lawsuit from a “Jane Roe” who says she labored as a hairstylist and make-up artist for the award-winning singer.
The grievance, filed in a state court docket in California on Thursday and obtained by CNN, states the alleged incidents occurred in 2019. She claims she was as soon as raped by Brooks throughout a piece journey.
Brooks had beforehand denied his accuser’s claims, although representatives for the nation celebrity didn't instantly reply to CNN’s request for remark in response to Roe’s new lawsuit.
Prior to Roe’s submitting and as first reported by CNN, an nameless movie star plaintiff – now disclosed to be Brooks – had tried to dam Roe from publicly repeating her allegations and fiercely denied the claims, in response to a earlier grievance he had filed as a “John Doe.”
Roe started dealing with hair and make-up companies for Brooks in 2017, in response to her swimsuit, which states that she was first employed to do hair and make-up for his spouse, Trisha Yearwood, in 1999.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Yearwood for remark.
In addition to sexual assault and battery, the swimsuit accuses Brooks of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks; speaking about intercourse and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe; frequently altering his clothes in entrance of Roe; and sending sexually express textual content messages.
In her submitting, Roe claims that in one alleged incident in 2019, when she was at Brooks’ residence for work, he walked out of the bathe bare, “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals, whereas chatting with her with sexually express and vulgar language.
In one other alleged incident in May 2019, the swimsuit alleges that Brooks raped Roe in a lodge room throughout a piece journey to Los Angeles the place Brooks was taping a Grammy tribute efficiency.
According to the swimsuit, Brooks and Roe traveled to Los Angeles on Brooks’ personal jet.
“Usually there were others on Brooks’ private jet but this time, Ms. Roe and Brooks were the only two passengers,” the grievance 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.”
Once they arrived on the lodge suite, Roe alleges the nation singer “appeared in the doorway to the bedroom, completely naked.” Roe’s grievance states she felt “trapped in the room alone with Brooks.”
After the alleged rape, Roe claims that Brooks continued to inform her his sexual fantasies with extra frequency and bodily groped her. The grievance states Brooks “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” together with his spouse.
In his grievance as plaintiff John Doe, Brooks claims defendant Roe’s lawyer despatched him a “confidential” demand letter alleging sexual misconduct after he declined Roe’s request for “salaried employment and medical benefits.”
“Defendant’s allegations are not true,” Brooks’ earlier lawsuit states. “Defendant is well aware, however, of the substantial, irreparable damage such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned reputation as a decent and caring person, along with the unavoidable damage to his family and the irreparable damage to his career and livelihood that would result if she made good on her threat to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”
Roe’s attorneys advised CNN that Brooks’ “efforts to silence our client through the filing of a preemptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation.”
“We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions,” attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker stated in a press release 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.”
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