LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lady who says she labored as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles resort in 2019.
The lady doesn’t use her identify and goes by Jane Roe within the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket. Brooks forcefully denied the allegations in an announcement and acknowledged he tried to get a courtroom to cease Thursday’s lawsuit from being filed.
The lady says within the lawsuit she had labored for Brooks’ spouse, nation singer Trisha Yearwood, since 1999, and had began additionally working for Brooks in 2017.
She mentioned the assault occurred when she traveled from Nashville to Los Angeles with Brooks, who was performing with soul singer Sam Moore at a Grammy Awards tribute to Moore in October 2019.
Brooks usually traveled with an entourage, however the two have been alone on his personal jet, and he booked only one resort suite for each of them, the lawsuit says.
The lady alleges that within the suite, he appeared bare within the doorway to the bed room and raped her.
The go well with says that he then proceeded as if nothing had occurred and anticipated her to do his hair and make-up instantly after.
The lady’s lawsuit alleges that earlier in 2019, when she was at Brooks’ house, he had appeared bare in entrance of her, grabbed her fingers, and put them on his genitals.
Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit in federal courtroom in Mississippi final month, through which each him and the lady are nameless.
In courtroom filings in that case, the plaintiff, going by John Doe, says the allegations are “wholly untrue,” and he first realized of them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him until he gave her hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
He requested a choose to cease the lady from “intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy.”
“For the last two months, 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,” Brooks’ assertion mentioned. “It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”
Brooks mentioned he filed the case anonymously “for the sake of families on both sides.”
“I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be,” his assertion concluded.
The lady’s go well with additionally says Brooks uncovered himself to her many different occasions and talked about sexual fantasies along with her and despatched her express textual content messages.
She mentioned she was compelled to maintain working for Brooks due to monetary hardship, which he knew about and took benefit of.
An e-mail to the lady’s lawyer asking whether or not she had reported her allegations to police was not instantly answered.
The 62-year-old Oklahoma-born Brooks was the most important star in nation music of the Nineties, with hits together with “Friends in Low Places” and “The Thunder Rolls.” He introduced arena-rock theatrics to his concert events and a pop-music sensibility to his recordings. He had enormous success that went past typical nation audiences.
He married fellow nation star Yearwood in 2005. There was no fast response to a message to a Yearwood consultant looking for touch upon the lawsuit.
