Garth Brooks accused of sexual assault and battery in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artist

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Nation 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 criticism, filed in a state courtroom 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.

In an announcement to CNN in a while Thursday, Brooks stated, “For the final two months, I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future could be if I didn’t write a examine for a lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.”

“Hush cash, regardless of how a lot or how little, continues to be hush cash. In my thoughts, meaning I’m admitting to habits I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different,” he added. “We filed swimsuit towards this particular person practically a month in the past to talk out towards extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of households on each side.”

Previous to Roe’s submitting and as first reported by CNN, an nameless superstar plaintiff – now disclosed to be Brooks – had tried to dam Roe from publicly repeating her allegations and fiercely denied the claims, in keeping with a earlier criticism he had filed as a “John Doe.”

Roe started dealing with hair and make-up providers for Brooks in 2017, in keeping with 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.

“I can not get into settlement discussions, however the suggestion made by Brooks that he was unwilling to pay hundreds of thousands is solely not true,” Douglas H. Wigdor, an legal professional representing Roe, stated in an announcement to CNN Friday. “We’re very assured in our case and over time the general public will see his true character fairly than his extremely curated persona.”

Along with sexual assault and battery, the swimsuit accuses Brooks of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks; speaking about intercourse and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe; recurrently altering his clothes in entrance of Roe; and sending sexually specific textual content messages.

In her submitting, Roe claims that in one alleged incident in 2019, when she was at Brooks’ dwelling for work, he walked out of the bathe bare, “grabbed her arms and compelled them” onto his genitals, whereas talking to her with sexually specific and vulgar language.

In one other alleged incident in Might 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.

In response to the swimsuit, Brooks and Roe traveled to Los Angeles on Brooks’ personal jet.

“Normally there have been others on Brooks’ personal jet however this time, Ms. Roe and Brooks have been the one two passengers,” the criticism states. “As soon as in Los Angeles on the lodge, Ms. Roe couldn’t imagine that Brooks had booked a lodge suite with one bed room and he or she didn’t have a separate room.”

As soon as they arrived on the lodge suite, Roe alleges the nation singer “appeared within the doorway to the bed room, utterly bare.” Roe’s criticism states she felt “trapped within 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 criticism states Brooks “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” together with his spouse.

In his criticism as plaintiff John Doe, Brooks claims defendant Roe’s legal professional despatched him a “confidential” demand letter alleging sexual misconduct after he declined Roe’s request for “salaried employment and medical advantages.”

“Defendant’s allegations will not be true,” Brooks’ earlier lawsuit states. “Defendant is nicely conscious, nevertheless, of the substantial, irreparable injury such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned status as a good and caring particular person, together with the unavoidable injury to his household and the irreparable injury to his profession and livelihood that may end result if she made good on her menace to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”

Roe’s attorneys instructed CNN that Brooks’ “efforts to silence our shopper by means of the submitting of a preemptive criticism in Mississippi was nothing apart from an act of desperation and tried intimidation.”

“We’re assured that Brooks can be held accountable for his actions,” attorneys Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker stated in an announcement to CNN. “We applaud our shopper’s braveness in shifting ahead together with her criticism towards Garth Brooks. The criticism filed at present demonstrates that sexual predators exist not solely in company America, Hollywood and within the rap and rock and roll industries but in addition on the planet of nation music.”

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