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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 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.

In an announcement to CNN afterward Thursday, Brooks mentioned, “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 tens of millions 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 conduct I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different,” he added. “We filed go well with in opposition to this particular person almost a month in the past to talk out in opposition to 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 movie star plaintiff – now disclosed to be Brooks – had tried to dam Roe from publicly repeating her allegations and fiercely denied the claims, in line with a earlier criticism he had filed as a “John Doe.”

Roe started dealing with hair and make-up companies for Brooks in 2017, in line with her go well with, 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, in addition to attorneys for the accuser, for remark.

Along with sexual assault and battery, the go well with accuses Brooks of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks; speaking about intercourse and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe; repeatedly 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 arms and compelled them” onto his genitals, whereas talking to her with sexually express and vulgar language.

In one other alleged incident in Could 2019, the go well with 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 keeping with the go well with, Brooks and Roe traveled to Los Angeles on Brooks’ non-public jet.

“Often there have been others on Brooks’ non-public 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 she or he 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” along 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 are usually not true,” Brooks’ earlier lawsuit states. “Defendant is effectively conscious, nevertheless, of the substantial, irreparable harm such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned popularity 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 will consequence if she made good on her menace to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”

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

“We’re assured that Brooks might be held accountable for his actions,” attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker mentioned in an announcement to CNN. “We applaud our shopper’s braveness in transferring ahead together with her criticism in opposition to Garth Brooks. The criticism filed right this moment demonstrates that sexual predators exist not solely in company America, Hollywood and within the rap and rock and roll industries but additionally on the planet of nation music.”

It is a growing story and might be up to date.