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Garth Brooks Accused Of Rape In Lawsuit From Hair-And-Makeup Artist
Los Angeles — A woman who claims to have worked as a hair and beauty stylist for Garth Brooks claims he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday.
In her complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the woman is named Jane Roe rather than her given name. Brooks vehemently rejected the charges in a statement, admitting he attempted to have a judge stop Thursday’s lawsuit from being filed.
Garth Brooks Accused Of Rape In Lawsuit From Hair-And-Makeup Artist
The lady claims in the lawsuit that she has worked for Brooks’ wife, country artist Trisha Yearwood, since 1999 and began working for Brooks in 2017.
She said she was assaulted while traveling from Nashville to Los Angeles with Brooks, who was singing alongside soul singer Sam Moore at a Grammy Awards tribute in October 2019.
Brooks generally travels with an entourage, but the two were alone on his private jet, and he only rented one hotel suite for both of them, according to the lawsuit.
The woman claims that while in the suite, he appeared nude in the bedroom doorway and assaulted her.
According to the lawsuit, he then proceeded as if nothing had happened, expecting her to do his hair and cosmetics right away.
The woman’s lawsuit claims that earlier in 2019, while she was at Brooks’ house, he emerged naked in front of her, seized her hands, and placed them on his genitals.
In court records in that lawsuit, the plaintiff, known as John Doe, claims the charges are “wholly untrue,” and that he only learned of them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him unless he paid her millions of dollars.
He sought a judge to prevent the woman from causing “intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy.”
“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,” according to Brooks’ statement. “It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”
Garth explained that he filed the complaint anonymously “for the sake of families on both sides.”
“I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be,” he said.
The woman’s suit also claims Brooks exposed himself to her numerous times, discussed sexual aspirations with her, and sent her explicit text messages.
She claimed she was obliged to continue working for Brooks due to financial difficulties, which he knew about and took advantage of.
An email to the woman’s attorney inquiring if she had submitted her charges to police was not immediately returned.
Garth Brooks Accused Of Rape In Lawsuit From Hair-And-Makeup Artist
The 62-year-old Oklahoma native Brooks was the biggest performer in country music in the 1990s, with classics like “Friends in Low Places” and “The Thunder Rolls.” His concerts featured arena-rock pyrotechnics, while his records reflected a pop-music sensibility. He achieved enormous success that extended beyond normal country listeners.
He married fellow country singer Yearwood in 2005. A message addressed to a Yearwood representative requesting comment on the case received no immediate response.
SOURCE | AP
