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Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault and battery by a lady who says she labored as his hairstylist and make-up artist.
The girl, recognized as “Jane Roe,” filed the grievance on Thursday, October 3. In keeping with CNN, the girl claims Brooks, 62, raped her throughout a 2019 work journey. Brooks beforehand denied the accuser’s claims. Us Weekly has reached out to him for remark.
In keeping with the lawsuit, Roe started working for the nation star in 2017 after initially being employed to do hair and make-up for his spouse, Trisha Yearwood, in 1999. Along with sexual assault and battery, Roe claims that Brooks despatched her sexually express textual content messages, repeatedly uncovered his genitals and buttocks to her and mentioned his sexual fantasies in entrance of her. Roe described one alleged 2019 incident wherein she claims Brooks walked out of the bathe bare and “grabbed her fingers and compelled them” onto his genitals.
Roe additional claimed that Brooks made “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” with Yearwood, 60, whom Brooks wed in 2005.
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Previous to Roe’s submitting, Brooks anonymously filed a grievance making an attempt to dam Roe from repeating her allegations and vehemently denying the claims.
“Defendant’s allegations should not true,” the submitting claimed. “Defendant is effectively conscious, nevertheless, of the substantial, irreparable harm such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned repute as an honest and caring particular person, together with the unavoidable harm to his household and the irreparable harm to his profession and livelihood that might end result if she made good on her menace to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”
Roe’s attorneys known as Brooks’ “efforts to silence” their shopper “nothing aside from an act of desperation and tried intimidation” in an announcement shared with CNN.
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“We’re assured that Brooks will probably be held accountable for his actions,” attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker’s assertion continued. “We applaud our shopper’s braveness in transferring ahead along with her grievance towards Garth Brooks. The grievance filed in the present day 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.”
Roe claimed in her lawsuit that the alleged 2019 rape passed off when she and Brooks traveled collectively to Los Angeles the place Brooks was filming a Grammys tribute efficiency.
“Often there have been others on Brooks’ non-public jet, however this time Ms. Roe and Brooks have been the one two passengers,” the submitting claims. “As soon as in Los Angeles on the resort, Ms. Roe couldn’t imagine that Brooks had booked a resort suite with one bed room and he or she didn’t have a separate room.”
As soon as on the shared resort suite, Roe alleges that Brooks “appeared within the doorway to the bed room, fully bare,” making her really feel “trapped.”
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The bombshell lawsuit comes lower than 24 hours after Yearwood shared Instagram photographs of herself and Brooks performing collectively in Las Vegas. Brooks has been identified to publicly reward his spouse at any time when he will get a chance.
“I really feel so helpless as a result of there’s nothing I can’t do with out her,” the musician completely advised Us of Yearwood in August 2023. “There’s nothing I can’t do along with her and there’s nothing I can do with out her. It’s a blessing and a curse that you simply really feel so free and impartial when she’s there and also you’re so dependent when she’s not there … I don’t suppose she feels this manner in any respect, however I do know I do.”
Previous to his relationship with Yearwood, Brooks was married to Sandy Mahl from 1986 to 2001. The previous couple share daughters Taylor, 32, August, 30, and Allie, 28.
Should you or somebody has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.