A lady who says she labored as a hair-and-makeup stylist for nation singer Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday (Oct 3) that he raped her in a Los Angeles lodge in 2019.
The lady doesn’t use her identify and goes by Jane Roe within the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom. An e mail searching for remark from Brooks’ publicist and lawyer weren’t instantly answered.
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 stated 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 had been alone on his personal jet, and he booked only one lodge 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.
She alleges that earlier in 2019, when she was at Brooks’ dwelling, he had appeared bare in entrance of her, grabbed her arms, and put them on his genitals.
The lawsuit says that Brooks filed his personal preemptive lawsuit in federal court docket in Mississippi final month, through which each him and the girl are nameless.
In court docket filings in that case, the plaintiff, going by John Doe, says the allegations are “wholly unfaithful,” 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 asks a choose to cease the girl from “intentional infliction of emotional misery, defamation, and false gentle invasion of privateness.”
The lady’s go well with additionally says Brooks uncovered himself to her many different occasions and talked about sexual fantasies together with her and despatched her specific textual content messages.
She stated 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 girl’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 largest star in nation music of the Nineties, with hits together with Mates In Low Locations and The Thunder Rolls. He introduced arena-rock theatrics to his live shows and a pop-music sensibility to his recordings. He had large 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 searching for touch upon the lawsuit.
