Nation music star Garth Brooks has been accused of rape and sexual assault in a lawsuit filed by his former hair and make-up artist.
The girl, who doesn’t use her title within the lawsuit and goes by Jane Roe, claims the assault occurred when she travelled from Nashville to Los Angeles with the singer, who was performing on the 2019 Grammy Awards.
The lawsuit – filed on Thursday within the Los Angeles Superior Court docket – alleges that regardless of Brooks usually travelling with an entourage, she and Brooks flew alone to the occasion on his personal jet, and that he had booked only one lodge suite for each of them.
The girl claims that within the suite, he appeared bare within the doorway to the bed room and raped her.
Representatives for Brooks have to date refused to remark.
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Garth Brooks together with his spouse and fellow nation singer Trisha Yearwood. Pic: AP
The go well with goes on to say Books proceeded as if nothing had occurred and anticipated her to do his hair and make-up instantly after.
The girl additional alleges that earlier in that very same yr, when she was at Brooks’ residence, he had appeared bare in entrance of her, grabbed her palms, and put them on his genitals.
Pre-empting the allegations, Brooks allegedly filed a separate lawsuit in federal courtroom in Mississippi final month by which each him and the lady have been nameless, Thursday’s lawsuit claims.
In courtroom filings in that case, the plaintiff, named as John Doe, stated the allegations have been “wholly untrue”, and he first realized of them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him until he gave her tens of millions of {dollars}.
He requested a decide to cease the lady from “intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation and false light invasion of privacy”.
The lawsuit by Jane Roe claims that on high of the 2 described incidents, Brooks uncovered himself to her on many different events, talked about sexual fantasies along with her and despatched her express textual content messages.
She says she was compelled to maintain working for him due to monetary hardship, which he knew about and took benefit of.
The unnamed claimant is believed to have additionally labored for Brooks’ spouse, fellow nation singer Trisha Yearwood, since 1999.
Oklahoma-born Brooks, 62, was the most important star in nation music of the Nineteen Nineties, with hits together with Pals In Low Locations and The Thunder Rolls.
He stays the quantity one-selling particular person artist in US historical past with 20 Billboard no 1 singles and 157 million document gross sales, in line with his official web site.
In March this yr, he completed a residency on the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
He married fellow nation star Yearwood in 2005.
