Nation music star Garth Brooks has been accused of rape and sexual assault in a lawsuit filed by his former hair and make-up artist.
The girl, who doesn’t use her identify within the lawsuit and goes by Jane Roe, claims the assault occurred when she travelled from Nashville to Los Angeles with the singer, who was performing on the 2019 Grammy Awards.
The lawsuit – filed on Thursday within the Los Angeles Superior Court docket – alleges that regardless of Brooks usually travelling with an entourage, she and Brooks flew alone to the occasion on his non-public jet, and that he had booked only one resort suite for each of them.
The girl claims that within the suite, he appeared bare within the doorway to the bed room and raped her.
Brooks stated the lawsuit is an try at extortion for “thousands and thousands of {dollars}”.
In a press release to the PA information company, he stated: “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 thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
“It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.
“Hush cash, irrespective of how a lot or how little, remains to be hush cash. In my thoughts, which means I’m admitting to behavior I’m incapable of – ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different.”
The go well with goes on to say Books proceeded as if nothing had occurred and anticipated her to do his hair and make-up instantly after.
The girl additional alleges that earlier in that very same 12 months, when she was at Brooks’ residence, he had appeared bare in entrance of her, grabbed her arms, and put them on his genitals.
Pre-empting the allegations, Brooks filed a separate lawsuit in federal courtroom in Mississippi final month during which each him and the lady had been nameless, Thursday’s lawsuit claims.
In courtroom filings in that case, the plaintiff, named as John Doe, stated the allegations had been “wholly unfaithful”, and he first discovered of them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him except he gave her thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
He requested a decide to cease the lady from “intentional infliction of emotional misery, defamation and false mild invasion of privateness”.
Brooks added in a press release PA: “I need to play music tonight. I need to proceed our good deeds going ahead. It breaks my coronary heart these fantastic issues are in query now.
“I belief the system, I don’t concern the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be.”
The lawsuit by Jane Roe claims that on high of the 2 described incidents, Brooks uncovered himself to her on many different events, talked about sexual fantasies together with her and despatched her express textual content messages.
She says she was pressured to maintain working for him due to monetary hardship, which he knew about and took benefit of.
The unnamed claimant is believed to have additionally labored for Brooks’ spouse, fellow nation singer Trisha Yearwood, since 1999.
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Oklahoma-born Brooks, 62, was the most important star in nation music of the Nineteen Nineties, with hits together with Associates In Low Locations and The Thunder Rolls.
He stays the quantity one-selling particular person artist in US historical past with 20 Billboard no 1 singles and 157 million file gross sales, in keeping with his official web site.
In March this 12 months, he completed a residency on the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
He married fellow nation star Yearwood in 2005.