Garth Brooks Identifies Accuser in Legal Filing and Invokes the Wrath of Her Lawyers
Photo Credit: Garth Brooks by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos M. Vazquez II / Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. / CC by 2.0
Garth Brooks’ legal battle against a woman accusing him of sexual assault heats up as he publicly identifies her in a legal filing and angering her lawyers.
Country star Garth Brooks was accused of sexual assault and rape by a former makeup artist who filed a lawsuit against him last week in California, and the battle continues to escalate.
The complaint was filed anonymously by a woman identified only as Jane Roe and Jane Doe, who says she began working for Brooks’ wife, singer Trisha Yearwood, as a makeup artist and hairstylist in 2017. She later began working for Brooks, also as a makeup artist, when she encountered financial difficulties and he started offering her more work as he toured.
But in 2019, she claims Brooks started sexually harassing her, including showing up naked to his appointments with her in his home. These events continued escalating, she says, until Brooks raped her in a hotel room while on a trip to Los Angeles for a performance.
Brooks has denied the allegations and accuses her of attempting to extort him out of “millions of dollars,” while tarnishing his wholesome country image. Brooks also filed a lawsuit in September against his accuser in Mississippi court, the state in which she now lives, in an attempt to stop her from filing her own complaint against him. That lawsuit, which he filed anonymously, sought a judgment declaring the allegations untrue and to prohibit her from suing him in the first place.
But attempts to dissuade her failed, and her lawsuit broke the country singer’s anonymity. In retaliation, Brooks has amended his initial complaint to not only add his own name to it, but her name as well.
A separate filing, obtained by Whiskey Riff, shows Brooks claiming he is the victim of a shakedown, condemning the attorneys involved for publicly naming him before a court could determine whether the case could go forward with both parties remaining anonymous. That move has angered his accuser’s attorneys.
“Garth Brooks just revealed his true self. Out of spite and to punish, he publicly named a rape victim,” said attorneys for his accuser in a public statement. “With no legal justification, Brooks outed her because he thinks the laws don’t apply to him. On behalf of our client, we will be moving for maximum sanctions against him immediately,” they continue. “He is far from the victim of a shakedown, and in fact offered millions of dollars to keep this matter from becoming public.”
Brooks addressed the issue briefly during his Inside Studio G livestream on Monday, October 7, saying the whole thing could take two years to reach a conclusion.
“This thing is on. It’s gonna happen. And people are telling me it could be up to two years, so my suggestion is, we all take a deep breath, we all just kind of settle in, and let’s hold hands and take a trip together, okay?” He went on, “Because it is something that you cannot talk about. That’s all we can say about it.”
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