Garth Brooks Accused of Raping His & Trisha Yearwood's Makeup Artist

The suit accuses Brooks of "openly talking astir intersexual subjects," changing "clothing successful beforehand of Ms. Roe, and often purposefully exposed his genitals and buttocks to Ms. Roe," repeating his "sexual fantasies" to her, sending her sexually explicit substance messages, arsenic good arsenic remarks "about having a threesome with his wife, Ms. Yearwood." 

E! News has reached retired to reps for Brooks and Yearwood for comment, but has not heard back. 

Roe besides alleges successful the lawsuit Brooks raped her during a enactment travel to Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards successful 2019. According to the filing, "Once successful Los Angeles astatine the hotel, Ms. Roe could not judge that Brooks had booked a edifice suite with 1 chamber and she did not person a abstracted room."

Upon their accomplishment astatine the hotel, Roe's suit says that Brooks "appeared successful the doorway to the bedroom, wholly naked" and that she felt "trapped successful the country unsocial with Brooks, with nary 1 to assistance and acold distant from Nashville."

The suit says that the assault was "painful and traumatic" for Roe and that, "She was helpless to determination from his grip and terrified astatine what was happening to her."

Roe stopped moving for Brooks and Yearwood around May 2021, per the suit, and subsequently moved to Mississippi. 

Her lawyers allege successful the docs that erstwhile they contacted Brooks to disclose that she "was prepared to record a ailment successful California to clasp him accountable for his intersexual assaults," Brooks retaliated and "used the information that Ms. Roe had dared to talk astir the harm helium forced connected her arsenic an accidental to inflict adjacent much harm and symptom connected Ms. Roe."

"Specifically, portion pretending to beryllium successful discussions with Ms. Roe to resoluteness her ineligible claims against him, connected September 13, 2024," the suit states, "Brooks filed a preemptive abusive Complaint against Ms. Roe nether the Declaratory Judgment Act, successful the United States District Court For The Southern District of Mississippi, Northern Division, entitled John Doe v. Jane Roe."

Roe is asking for "monetary and/or compensatory damages" arsenic good arsenic "punitive damages/exemplary damages," according to her suit, arsenic good as "further alleviation arsenic the tribunal whitethorn deem proper."

Brooks had antecedently denied Roe's claims, saying successful his ailment arsenic plaintiff John Doe, according to CNN, that her "attorney sent him a 'confidential' demand letter alleging intersexual misconduct aft helium declined Roe's petition for 'salaried employment and aesculapian benefits.'"

"Defendant's allegations are not true," Brooks' erstwhile suit stated, per the outlet. "Defendant is good aware, however, of the substantial, irreparable harm specified mendacious allegations would bash to Plaintiff's well-earned estimation arsenic a decent and caring person, on with the unavoidable harm to his household and the irreparable harm to his vocation and livelihood that would effect if she made bully connected her menace to ‘publicly file' her fabricated lawsuit."

Roe's attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker said successful a connection to NBC News that Brooks' "efforts to soundlessness our lawsuit done the filing of a preemptive ailment successful Mississippi was thing different than an enactment of desperation and attempted intimidation."

"We are assured that Brooks volition beryllium held accountable for his actions," they added. "We applaud our client's courageousness successful moving guardant with her ailment against Garth Brooks. The ailment filed contiguous demonstrates that intersexual predators beryllium not lone successful firm America, Hollywood and successful the rap and stone and rotation industries but besides successful the satellite of state music."

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