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Garth Brooks Says Rape Accuser Wanted to "Blackmail" Him for "Millions" of Dollars
Garth Brooks’ ineligible conflict continues.
A period aft the state vocalist spoke retired against the intersexual battle allegations included successful a California suit by a erstwhile constitution creator for him and woman Trisha Yearwood, helium has filed to determination the lawsuit to a national court.
In the documents filed Nov. 1 and obtained by E! News, Brooks argued for removal of the suit from the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles to the United States District Court for the Central District of California, “on the ground of diverseness of citizenship jurisdiction.”
Elsewhere successful the document, Brooks says that helium has not yet been served with the lawsuit. He besides emphasized that helium “denies immoderate liability successful the Superior Court, denies the allegations successful the Complaint, and denies that Plaintiff has sufficiently stated immoderate plausible assertion upon which alleviation tin beryllium granted.”
Brooks argued that the lawsuit should beryllium eligible for removal from the California Superior Court nether the diverseness citizenship code, which allows a lawsuit to beryllium brought to national tribunal erstwhile the parties are from antithetic states and the magnitude successful contention exceeds $75,000.
Per the documents, the lawsuit was primitively filed successful California authorities court. But Brooks argues for removal owed to Brooks’ residence successful Tennessee and the plaintiff’s residence successful Mississippi, citing the diverseness of citizenship code.
Brooks further argued successful the caller filing that the lawsuit qualifies for removal nether that code, due to the fact that the “amount successful contention successful this case, including imaginable counterclaims, exceeds the sum.” of $75,000.
The state singer’s filing to determination the lawsuit to national tribunal came a small little than a period aft he denied immoderate allegations made against him successful the lawsuit—which was primitively filed Oct. 3.
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“For the past 2 months, I person been hassled to nary extremity with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my aboriginal would beryllium if I did not constitute a cheque for galore millions of dollars," the 62-year-old said successful a connection to E! News soon aft the filing was made. “It has been similar having a loaded weapon waved successful my face.”
He continued, accusing the plaintiff of extortion, “Hush money, nary substance however overmuch oregon however little, is inactive hush money. In my mind, that means I americium admitting to behaviour I americium incapable of—ugly acts nary quality should ever bash to another.”
In the suit filed by Jane Roe, the plaintiff accused Brooks of “openly talking astir intersexual subjects,” and sending her sexually explicit messages including 1 "about having a threesome with his wife, Ms. Yearwood.”
Brooks aboriginal filed a preemptive suit successful Mississippi Oct. 8 to forestall the plaintiff from suing him successful her autochthonal state.
"[Brooks] is the unfortunate of a shakedown," the state wrote successful ineligible documents obtained by E! News. "When Jane Roe threatened to people lies astir him—intending to blackmail [Brooks] into paying her millions of dollars—he filed this suit to sphere his reputation, found the truth, and enactment a halt to her scheme.”
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E! News has reached retired to Brooks regarding the latest filing but has not yet heard back.
Meanwhile, attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker, who are representing Roe, 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."
Roe’s ineligible counsel added that Brooks volition beryllium “held accountable for his actions.”
“We applaud our client's courageousness successful moving guardant with her ailment against Garth Brooks,” their connection continued. “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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