Garth Brooks shared picture holding hands with wife Trisha Yearwood days before rape claims

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Nation music star Garth Brooks shared a photograph holding arms along with his spouse simply days earlier than he was accused of sexual assault.

Brooks, 62, posted the picture on Instagram earlier this week to commemorate the work he and Trisha Yearwood, 60, did with Habitat for Humanity, a housing charity. The music star and his spouse hosted an occasion to have fun the fortieth yr of the charity’s Carter Work Venture, an annual home-building blitz named after former president Jimmy Carter and former first woman Rosalynn Carter.

“We present as much as do the work, however what all of us depart with is SO rather more,” Brooks wrote within the Instagram publish. “Kicking off the construct for @habitatforhumanity Carter Work mission 2024.”

Brooks then made one other publish wishing Carter a cheerful a centesimal birthday.

“To the person with the longest legacy of giving now we have ever recognized, Glad a centesimal Birthday Mr. President Carter,” he wrote. “Your work has impacted the world and your coronary heart continues to alter lives, ours included.”

Brooks and Yearwood have been married since 2005, having gotten engaged that yr after he proposed on stage.

Brooks married his first spouse, songwriter Sandy Mahl, in 1986. The couple had three daughters earlier than submitting for divorce in 2000. Yearwood was married twice earlier than she tied the knot with Brooks.

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On Thursday, October 3, Brooks was named in a lawsuit accusing him of rape in 2019. He has denied these claims.

He’s being sued by a lady recognized solely as “Jane Roe,” who says she was first employed to do hair and make-up for Yearwood in 1999. She stated she started working for Brooks straight in 2017.

The grievance, which was filed in California, alleges that Brooks raped the girl in a resort suite throughout a piece journey. CNN was first to report the lawsuit.

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She stated that in Could 2019, she traveled with Brooks to Los Angeles on his personal jet. She then stated that Brooks raped her, and that on subsequent events he bodily groped her and made “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” along with his spouse.

“Brooks’ rape of Ms. Roe was painful and traumatic. Having no regard for her wellbeing and intent on his personal sexual gratification on the expense of Ms. Roe’s bodily, psychological and emotional trauma, in some unspecified time in the future in the course of the nightmare, Brooks even held her small physique the wrong way up [and attacked],” the lawsuit learn.

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Along with the allegation of rape, Brooks is accused within the lawsuit of repeatedly exposing his genitals to the girl, sharing sexual fantasies together with her and sending her sexually express textual content messages.

The go well with requested for an unspecified amount of cash.

The nation singer stated that he has been “hassled to no finish with threats, lies and tragic tales” due to this lawsuit.

“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 stated in a press release to CNN. “We filed go well with in opposition to this particular person practically 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.”

Brooks beforehand denied his accuser’s claims and tried to stop her from voicing them publicly via a grievance he filed as a “John Doe.”

In that grievance, he claimed that the girl had despatched him a “confidential” demand letter alleging sexual misconduct after he had declined her request for “salaried employment and medical advantages.”

“Defendant’s allegations should 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 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 risk to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”

The Impartial has contacted Yearwood for remark.