Garth Brooks Says Rape Accuser Wanted to Blackmail Him for "Millions"

Garth Brooks Breaks Silence Amid Rape Allegation From His and Trisha Yearwood's Makeup Artist

Garth Brooks is warring backmost against a woman's sexual battle allegations.

Days earlier his erstwhile hairstylist and constitution creator accused him of rape and different enactment crimes successful a California suit utilizing the alias Jane Roe, the state prima preemptively filed a suit successful Mississippi to artifact her from suing. However, aft helium was identified arsenic the plaintiff successful the press, helium filed an amended ailment that noted the woman's name.

"[Brooks] is the unfortunate of a shakedown," the state wrote successful ineligible documents filed Oct. 8 and 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."

In his amended complaint, besides filed Oct. 8 and obtained by E! News, Brooks alleged that 2 months earlier his accuser came guardant with her suit, helium was sent a request missive from her lawyer containing allegations of "sexual 'grooming,' instauration of a sexually hostile enactment environment, unwanted intersexual touching, and intersexual assault."

The pistillate "also alleged a content that [Brooks] planned to prosecute idiosyncratic to execution her," the filing says.

He added that successful the July letter, the pistillate threatened to publically record a civilian ailment against him unless helium agreed to wage her "millions of dollars."

The "Friends successful Low Places" creator further indicated that the accusations were successful retaliation aft the woman, who helium said worked for him for astir 15 years arsenic an autarkic contractor, asked him for salaried employment and aesculapian benefits and helium advised helium could not hold to her demands.

He further noted that his determination to sanction her publically successful the amended ailment came aft her lawyer identified Brooks portion talking astir the ineligible conflict with a media outlet.

"She gave the Court less than 48 hours aft filing her opposition," the documents state, "before publically leaking [Brooks'] individuality to the press."

The woman's ineligible squad slammed his determination to sanction her.

“Garth Brooks conscionable revealed his existent self," they said successful a connection to the Hollywood Reporter. "Out of spite and to punish, helium publically named a rape victim."

The connection continued, "With nary ineligible justification, Brooks outed her due to the fact that helium thinks the laws don’t use to him. On behalf of our client, we volition beryllium moving for maximum sanctions against him immediately."

In her lawsuit, the pistillate had accused Brooks of "openly talking astir intersexual subjects," purposefully exposing himself to her, repeating his "sexual fantasies" to her, sending her sexually explicit substance messages and making remarks "about having a threesome with his wife," Trisha Yearwood.

"Roe" besides alleges successful her filing that Brooks raped her successful a edifice country during a enactment travel successful 2019 and that when her lawyers contacted him to disclose that she "was prepared to record a ailment successful California to clasp him accountable for his intersexual assaults," helium allegedly 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."

The accuser is asking for "monetary and/or compensatory damages" arsenic good arsenic "punitive damages/exemplary damages," arsenic good arsenic "further alleviation arsenic the tribunal whitethorn deem proper."

Brooks' amended suit stated that helium has suffered affectional distress and that the woman's "attempted extortion" of him "through specified untrue, lewd allegations constitutes intentional, outrageous conduct" that was intended to and did successful information origin him "serious intelligence injury."

He is seeking a assemblage trial, compensatory and punitive damages, declaratory judgement that the woman's allegations against him of intersexual misconduct are untrue, and injunctive alleviation prohibiting him from "continuing her attempted extortion, defamation, and mendacious airy penetration of privacy, and from making bully connected her threats to much wide publicize her mendacious allegations."