Garth Brooks is accused of rape in a lawsuit against a hairdresser and makeup artist

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who says she worked as a hair and makeup stylist Garth Brooks A lawsuit filed Thursday alleged he raped her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2019.

The woman is not using her name and calls herself Jane Roe in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. An email seeking comment from Brooks’ publicist and attorney was not immediately returned.

The woman says in the lawsuit that she worked for Brooks’ wife, a country singer Trisha Yearwoodsince 1999, and has also worked for Brooks since 2017.

She said the attack occurred while she was traveling from Nashville to Los Angeles with Brooks, who performed with soul singer Sam Moore at a Grammy Awards in October 2019 as a tribute to Moore.

Brooks usually traveled with an entourage, but the two were alone on his private jet and he only booked a hotel suite for both of them, the lawsuit says.

The woman claims he showed up naked in the bedroom doorway of the suite and raped her.

The lawsuit states that he then proceeded as if nothing had happened and expected her to do his hair and makeup right afterward.

She claims that in early 2019, while she was at Brooks’ home, he appeared naked in front of her, grabbed her hands and placed them on his genitals.

The lawsuit says Brooks filed his own pre-emptive lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi last month, in which both he and the woman remain anonymous.

In court filings in the case, the plaintiff, named John Doe, says the allegations are “completely untrue” and that he first learned about them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him if he didn’t give her millions of dollars.

He is asking a judge to stop the woman from “intentionally inflicting emotional distress, defamation and invasion of privacy under false pretenses.”

The woman’s suit also says Brooks exposed himself to her many other times, talked to her about sexual fantasies and sent her explicit text messages.

She said she was forced to continue working for Brooks due to financial difficulties, which he knew about and took advantage of.

An email to the woman’s lawyer asking whether she had reported her allegations to police was not immediately returned.

The 62-year-old Oklahoma-born Brooks was country music’s biggest star of the 1990s, with hits like “Friends in Low Places” and “The Thunder Rolls.” He brought arena rock theatrics to his concerts and a pop music sensibility to his recordings. He had great success that went beyond the typical national audience.

In 2005, he married fellow country star Yearwood. There was no immediate response to a message to a Yearwood representative seeking comment on the lawsuit.