Music star Garth Brooks accused of rape in U.S. lawsuit

A girl who says she labored as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles lodge in 2019.

The girl doesn’t use her identify and goes by Jane Roe within the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom. Brooks forcefully denied the allegations in a press release and acknowledged he tried to get a court docket to cease Thursday’s lawsuit from being filed.

The girl says within the lawsuit she had labored for Brooks’s spouse — nation singer Trisha Yearwood — since 1999, and had began additionally working for Brooks in 2017.

She stated the assault occurred when she travelled from Nashville to Los Angeles with Brooks, who was performing with soul singer Sam Moore at a Grammy Awards tribute to Moore in October 2019.

Brooks usually travelled with an entourage, however the two had been alone on his non-public jet, and he booked only one lodge suite for each of them, the lawsuit says.

The girl alleges that, within the suite, he appeared bare within the doorway to the bed room and raped her.

The swimsuit says that he then proceeded as if nothing had occurred and anticipated her to do his hair and make-up instantly after.

The girl’s lawsuit alleges that earlier in 2019, when she was at Brooks’s dwelling, he had appeared bare in entrance of her, grabbed her palms, and put them on his genitals.

‘Hassled to no finish’

Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit in federal court docket in Mississippi final month, by which each him and the lady are nameless.

In court docket filings in that case, the plaintiff, going by John Doe, says the allegations are “wholly unfaithful,” and he first realized of them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him until he gave her hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.

He requested a choose to cease the lady from “intentional infliction of emotional misery, defamation, and false gentle invasion of privateness.”

“For the final two months, I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future can be if I didn’t write a verify for a lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars},” Brooks’s assertion stated.

“It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”

Brooks stated he filed the case anonymously “for the sake of households on each side.”

“I belief the system, I don’t worry the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be,” his assertion concluded.

The girl’s swimsuit additionally says Brooks uncovered himself to her many different occasions and talked about sexual fantasies along with her and despatched her specific textual content messages.

She stated she was pressured to maintain working for Brooks due to monetary hardship, which he knew about and took benefit of.

An electronic mail to the lady’s lawyer asking whether or not she had reported her allegations to police was not instantly answered.

The 62-year-old Oklahoma-born Brooks was the most important star in nation music of the Nineties, with hits together with Pals in Low Locations and The Thunder Rolls. He introduced arena-rock theatrics to his live shows and a pop-music sensibility to his recordings. He had big success that went past typical nation audiences.

Brooks married fellow nation star Yearwood in 2005.

There was no speedy response to a message to a Yearwood consultant searching for touch upon the lawsuit.