In a developing story, ’90s country star and “Friends In Low Places” singer, Garth Brooks is currently facing a lawsuit for the accused sexual assault and battery of a former makeup artist, as reported by CNN.
According to CNN, the complaint was filed in a state court in California on Thursday and stems from an incident that occurred in 2019 during a work trip.
The accuser, under the name, “Jane Roe,” had been handling Brooks’ hair and makeup in 2017 after years of handling Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood’s, makeup.
Roe claims, according to CNN, that Brooks would “repeatedly expose his genitals and buttocks, talk about sex and share sexual fantasies with her, regularly changing his clothing in front of her and sending explicit text messages.”
In her filing, she also claims that Brooks once walked out of the shower naked, “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals using sexually explicit language during an incident at his home in 2019.
Additionally, Roe claims that Brooks raped her in a hotel room during a work trip in Los Angeles later in 2019 while recording a tribute during the Grammys. According to Roe and her attorneys, Brooks had used his private jet to fly her out privately, booking a hotel suite with only one bedroom.
Once in the hotel room, Roe alleged that the “The Dance” singer “appeared in the doorway to the bedroom, completely naked,” stating that she felt “trapped in the room alone with Brooks.” After the alleged rape, she also claimed that Brooks once again continued to share his sexual fantasies with her and physically groped her. He also would repeatedly remark about having a threesome with his wife, according to the complaint.
It appears that Brooks had tried to block Roe from publicly accusing him in the past, filing a complaint against her under John Doe.
In another complaint filed under John Doe, Brooks claims that Roe’s attorney sent him a “confidential” letter that claimed that they would allege sexual misconduct after Brooks declined Roe’s request for “salaried employment and medical benefits.”
In Brooks’ previous lawsuit, it states, “Defendant’s allegations are not true. Defendant is well aware, however, of the substantial, irreparable damage such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned reputation as a decent and caring person, along with the unavoidable damage to his family and the irreparable damages to his career and livelihood that would result if she made good on her threat to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”
Brooks has denied the accuser’s claims in the past, and he has yet to make a public comment on the lawsuit as it has just come to the public’s attention.