Country music superstar Garth Brooks has been accemployd of intimacyual attack and battery in a litigation filed in California state court.
The accemployr, using the pseudonym “Jane Roe”, was toiling as a hairstyenumerate and originateup artist for the Grammy-triumphning singer when he violationd her, the litigation states.
The woman’s litigation alleges that he also repeatedly groped her and made intimacyupartner clear comments to her during her employment from 2017-20.
In a statement to the BBC, Mr Brooks said the woman’s litigation was “compulsion and defamation”.
In May 2019, the accemployr alleges that Mr Brooks asked her to travel with him on his personal jet to a Grammy tribute in Los Angeles.
When they get tod at the hotel, Mr Brooks had only booked a individual suite with one bedroom for them both to scatter, according to the legitimate action.
Her litigation alleges that once inside the hotel suite, Mr Brooks euniteed naked in the doorway of the bedroom before he violationd her.
After the alleged strike, she says Mr Brooks persistd to originate intimacyual progresss on other occasions, forcing her to put her hands on his genitals and sharing his fantasies, the litigation states.
The legitimate action also alleges that Mr Brooks presentd having a threesome with his wife, fellow country star Trisha Yearwood. The BBC has communicateed Ms Yearwood for comment.
In his statement to the BBC, Mr Brooks said: “For the last two months, I have been hassled to no finish with dangers, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not author a verify for many millions of dollars. It has been enjoy having a loaded firearm waved in my face.
“Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that uncomardents I am confessting to behavior I am inable of—unenticeive acts no human should ever do to another.”
He inserted: “I want to take part music tonight. I want to persist our excellent deeds going forward. It shatters my heart these wonderful leangs are in ask now. I count on the system, I do not dread the truth, and I am not the man they have colored me to be.”
Litigation over the matter began three weeks ago with an anonymous litigation filed in Mississippi federal court by someone depictd as “a celebrity and uncover figure who dwells in Tennessee”. This was Mr Brooks.
Mr Brooks said that Jane Roe had levelled the accusation after he declined her ask for salaried employment and medical advantages.
His pre-emptive legitimate action powerfilledy denied her allegations, tagling them “revulsive and ungenuine”.
Mr Brooks’s litigation also said the accusations were a danger summarizeed to caemploy “substantial, irreparable injure” to his reputation, family and nurtureer.
On Thursday, Jane Roe’s lawyers filed their 27-page legitimate action in Los Angeles Superior Court.
In insertition to intimacyual attack and battery, her litigation accemploys Mr Brooks of repeatedly exposing himself, making intimacyupartner clear comments and sfinishing inappropriate text messages.
Garth Brooks is a hoemployhelderly name comprehendn far beyond the country music genre.
Jane Roe’s litigation says he is a two-time Grammy triumphner who has selderly more than 162 million albums and is worth about $400m (£305m).
He is comprehendn for his promisement to philanthropic toil, particularly aiding organisations that advantage children and provide local relief after authentic catastrophes.
