Garth Brooks Accused in Lawsuit of Raping Makeup Artist, Offering “Threesome” With Wife Trisha Yearwood – E! Online
Garth Brooks Breaks Silence Amid Rape Allegation From His and Trisha Yearwood’s Makeup Artist
Jabber warning: This memoir discusses rape.
UPDATE: Garth Brooks has since spoken out, denying the allegations and alleging that the accuser demanded “hush cash.” Learn his assertion right here.
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Garth Brooks is facing upright troubles.
The nation singer has been accused of assault, battery and sexual battery in a lawsuit prompted by his and wife Trisha Yearwood‘s extinct hairstylist and make-up artist, in line with doctors got by E! News.
In the Oct. 3, filing, the girl—referred to within the swimsuit as Jane Roe—says she started working for Yearwood, 60, in 1999, and started handling hair and make-up for Brooks, 62, in 2017.
The doctors impart that in 2019, “Brooks learned that Ms. Roe turned into experiencing monetary difficulties, he hired Ms. Roe extra typically,” and accused the “Chums in Low Areas” singer of seizing “an quite a lot of to self-discipline a female worker to a side of Brooks that he conceals from the public. This side of Brooks believes he’s entitled to sexual gratification when he wants it, and the exercise of a female worker to acquire it, is fair game.”
The swimsuit accuses Brooks of “overtly talking about sexual subject issues,” altering “clothing in entrance of Ms. Roe, and typically purposefully uncovered his genitals and buttocks to Ms. Roe,” repeating his “sexual fantasies” to her, sending her sexually mumble text messages, as well as remarks “about having a threesome along with his wife, Ms. Yearwood.”
E! News has reached out to reps for Brooks and Yearwood for commentary, nonetheless has not heard motivate.
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Roe additionally alleges within the lawsuit Brooks raped her all thru a industrial skedaddle to Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards in 2019. In accordance with the filing, “Once in Los Angeles on the hotel, Ms. Roe might perchance not voice that Brooks had booked a hotel suite with one mattress room and she did not contain a separate room.”
Upon their arrival on the hotel, Roe’s lawsuit says that Brooks “looked within the doorway to the mattress room, fully naked” and that she felt “trapped within the room alone with Brooks, and not using a one to serve and a long way a long way off from Nashville.”
The lawsuit says that the assault turned into “painful and annoying” for Roe and that, “She turned into helpless to dart from his grip and afraid at what turned into going down to her.”
Roe stopped working for Brooks and Yearwood round Would possibly well additionally 2021, per the swimsuit, and attributable to this truth moved to Mississippi.
Her lawyers impart within the doctors that after they contacted Brooks to stammer that she “turned into ready to file a criticism in California to preserve him to blame for his sexual assaults,” Brooks retaliated and “aged the proven truth that Ms. Roe had dared to discuss the hurt he forced on her as an quite a lot of to inflict noteworthy extra hurt and grief on Ms. Roe.”
“Particularly, whereas pretending to be in discussions with Ms. Roe to acquire to the bottom of her upright claims in opposition to him, on September 13, 2024,” the swimsuit states, “Brooks filed a preemptive abusive Grievance in opposition to Ms. Roe under the Declaratory Judgment Act, within the United States District Court docket For The Southern District of Mississippi, Northern Division, entitled John Doe v. Jane Roe.”
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Roe is requesting “monetary and/or compensatory damages” as well as “punitive damages/exemplary damages,” in line with her swimsuit, as well as “extra reduction because the court docket might perchance voice fair.”
Brooks had previously denied Roe’s claims, announcing in his criticism as plaintiff John Doe, in line with CNN, that her “licensed expert sent him a ‘confidential’ demand letter alleging sexual misconduct after he declined Roe’s keep a matter to for ‘salaried employment and clinical benefits.'”
“Defendant’s allegations are not factual,” Brooks’ old lawsuit stated, per the outlet. “Defendant is well conscious, nonetheless, of the titanic, irreparable damage such incorrect allegations would live to Plaintiff’s well-earned repute as a tight and caring particular person, along with the unavoidable damage to his family and the irreparable damage to his occupation and livelihood that can end result if she made upright on her threat to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”
Roe’s attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker acknowledged in a assertion to NBC News that Brooks’ “efforts to silence our consumer thru the filing of a preemptive criticism in Mississippi turned into nothing rather then an act of desperation and tried intimidation.”
“We are confident that Brooks will be held to blame for his actions,” they added. “We applaud our consumer’s braveness in transferring ahead with her criticism in opposition to Garth Brooks. The criticism filed this day demonstrates that sexual predators exist not handiest in company The United States, Hollywood and within the rap and rock and roll industries nonetheless additionally within the field of nation song.”
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This memoir turned into up thus a long way on Oct. 3, 2024, at 7: 40 p.m. PT with Brooks’ assertion.
Free of charge, confidential serve, call the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or seek recommendation from rainn.org.
