“With cold disregard for Ms. Roe, when Brooks was finished, it was business as usual,” the lawsuit alleges. “Ms. Roe worked quickly to style his hair and do his makeup for the event so he was on time.”
A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing country music icon Garth Brooks of rape and sexual assault.
According to National Public Radio, the complaint was filed earlier this week on behalf of “an unnamed woman.” In her lawsuit, the “Jane Roe” plaintiff claims that she was repeatedly harassed by Brooks while working as his makeup artist. In 2019, Roe says, Brooks violently assaulted her—then tried to portray himself as a victim.
“I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars,” said Brooks, who filed his own lawsuit against Doe in September. “It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”
The plaintiff, who is identified in court documents only as “Jane Roe,” says that she was contracted to do makeup for Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yarwood, in 1999. She continued working for the family for the next 20 years.
In 2019, Roe claims, she told Garth Brooks that she was experiencing financial difficulties—and says that Brooks initially offered to help by offering her more work. But, soon afterward, Brooks allegedly tried to take advantage of her desperation.
Attorneys for Roe say that Brooks exposed his genitals to their client in 2019 and then, later in the same year, raped her in a Las Vegas hotel room.
“With cold disregard for Ms. Roe, when Brooks was finished, it was business as usual,” the lawsuit alleges. “Ms. Roe worked quickly to style his hair and do his makeup for the event so he was on time.”
Between 2017 and 2021, Roe claims that she Brooks continued to harass her, sending sexually explicit text messages and repeatedly changing his clothes in front of her.
Brooks, for his part, maintains that Roe is trying to extort him—and is now, having failed to obtain compensation, is attempted to destroy his reputation.
“Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money,” Brooks said. “In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of—ugly acts no human should ever do to another.”
“I trust the system,” said Brooks, who also claims that Roe sent him a threatening letter in July. “I do not fear the system, and I am not the man they have painted me to be.”
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Garth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artist
Garth Brooks is accused of rape and sexual assault in a lawsuit
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