Garth Brooks is accused of assaulting a former makeup artist

Garth Brooks is facing charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a former hair and makeup artist.

The unidentified accuser, listed in the lawsuit as “Jane Roe,” alleges that the country artist raped her on a business trip in May 2019 and engaged in other forms of sexual misconduct while working for him.

According to the lawsuit filed Thursday in California Superior Court, the rape occurred after the two traveled alone on Brooks’ private jet. The lawsuit says that when they arrived at their hotel in Los Angeles, Roe “couldn’t believe that Brooks had booked a one-bedroom hotel suite and she didn’t have a separate room.”

Brooks “appeared completely naked in the bedroom doorway” and Roe felt “trapped in the room alone with Brooks,” the lawsuit says.

“As she panicked, he grabbed her hands and pulled her into the next room and onto the bed, where she could not escape his physical dominance,” the lawsuit says.

The rape was “painful and traumatic,” according to the lawsuit, which states that at one point Brooks “held her small body upside down by her feet and penetrated her.”

In a statement to HuffPost, Brooks said he was “harassed” with “threats” and “lies” if he didn’t write “a check for many millions of dollars.”

“It was like a loaded gun was shoved in my face,” Brooks said. “Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. For me, that means admitting to behavior that I am incapable of – ugly actions that no human being should do to another. We filed a lawsuit against this person almost a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation of reputation. In the interest of the families of both sides, we filed the complaint anonymously.”

According to the lawsuit, after the alleged rape, Brooks continued to tell Roe about his sexual fantasies and said he wanted to have a threesome with her and his wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood.

The lawsuit also alleges that Brooks exposed his genitals to Roe, changed clothes in front of her and sent her sexually explicit text messages.

According to the lawsuit, while at Brooks’ home for work in 2019, Roe walked out of the shower naked, “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals while telling her that he dreamed about her giving him oral sex .

In October 2019, Brooks hired Roe again to do her hair and makeup in Los Angeles. The lawsuit alleges that when Roe went into Brooks’ room to do his hair and makeup, he was “lying face down on the bed, wearing baggy shorts and holding his crotch, making it clear that he wanted to do what he had “previously done in Los Angeles” with Roe earlier this year. Roe “was able to escape the situation,” the lawsuit says.

During a phone conversation in 2020, Roe told Brooks that she was “afraid” of him, to which Brooks responded by asking Roe to “work together forever,” the lawsuit says.

After Roe’s lawyers contacted Brooks to let him know she was ready to file a lawsuit over the alleged assault, Brooks filed a lawsuit against her on September 13.

“Defendant’s allegations are untrue,” Brooks’ lawsuit states. “The defendant, however, recognizes the significant, irreparable harm that such false allegations would cause to the plaintiff’s well-deserved reputation as a decent and caring human being, along with the inevitable harm to his family and the irreparable harm to his career and livelihood.” This is what would happen if she followed through on her threat to “publicly file” her fabricated lawsuit.

Roe’s lawyers said in a statement that they applauded her for coming forward.

“We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and that his efforts to silence our client by filing a preemptive lawsuit in Mississippi were nothing other than an act of desperation and intimidation,” it said Explanation. “We encourage others who may have been victimized to reach out to us as no survivor should suffer in silence.”

Brooks, who is based in Vegas, said in the statement that he “wants to play music tonight.”

“I want to continue our good deeds in the future,” he said. “It breaks my heart that these wonderful things are now in question. I trust the system, I’m not afraid of the truth and I’m not the man they made me out to be.”

Do you need help? Visit RAINN’s National Online Sexual Assault Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center website.