Garth Brooks sued for sexual harassment by makeup artist

Garth Brooks has been sued by a Jane Roe who claims the country star sexually assaulted her multiple times in 2019 while she worked for him as a hair and makeup artist.

In the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and obtained by Rolling Stonesays the anonymous woman that the first alleged battery occurred at Brooks’ home while she was working for him. She claims Brooks got out of the shower naked and approached her. “He grabbed her hands and forced them onto his erect penis,” while explaining that he “had been dreaming about that moment and wanted her to perform oral sex on him,” according to the 27-page complaint from attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor , Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker explained.

The woman says she declined the offer but stayed on as an employee because she was financially dependent on the job. She says a second incident occurred when she agreed to travel to Los Angeles with Brooks for a Grammy tribute to Sam Moore. She claims Brooks “locked her in a hotel room,” “grabbed her hands and pulled her” onto a bed, where he allegedly raped her.

She claims that Brooks held her upside down by her feet and penetrated her during the alleged assault. “She could not escape this grip and was afraid of what was happening to her. As he held her upside down and dangled by her ankles, all the blood rushed to her head, making her dizzy and sick. While Brooks forcibly penetrated her, she said perverse things to Ms. Roe about his sexual abilities.” (Brooks’ representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) Roe claims in her lawsuit that she considered suicide after the alleged attack have.

Roe says she was first hired in 1999 to do hair and makeup for Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood, but moved to Brooks in 2017. She claims Brooks also groped her and sent her explicit text messages.

The Jane Doe is suing under California’s Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up Accountability Act for sexual assault, assault and gender-based violence. “We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions,” Wigdor, Christensen and Baker said in a statement. “We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks. “The complaint filed today shows that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, in Hollywood, and in the rap and rock and roll industries, but also in the world of country music.”

Last month, before Roe filed her lawsuit, Brooks denied her allegations in a preemptive lawsuit in Mississippi. This lawsuit was filed anonymously, with the plaintiff described only as a “celebrity and public figure residing in Tennessee.” But Roe’s attorney has now confirmed that the lawsuit was filed by Brooks, telling CNN that his “efforts to silence our client by filing a preemptive lawsuit in Mississippi are nothing more than an act of desperation and intimidation.” were.

In the preemptive action, Brooks denied Roe’s allegations and described her lawsuit as “attempted extortion.” The complaint cited a letter Roe sent through her attorney in August in which she offered not to publicly file her false and defamatory lawsuit against the plaintiff in exchange for a multimillion-dollar payment. She threatened that if the plaintiff did not comply with this demand, he would face exposure to the tune of many millions of dollars “based on his net worth.”

Brooks asked the court to declare Roe’s allegations untrue and stop her from publishing them. Roe’s lawyers then responded, asking the court to deny Brooks’ motion. They specifically asked the court to otherwise reject Brooks’ attempts to continue the case by identifying him as “John Doe,” saying he is an “alleged perpetrator of sexual assault” who should not receive preferential treatment.