Country star Garth Brooks denies allegations of sexual assault and battery

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Country star Garth Brooks has reportedly been accused of sexual assault and assault by his makeup artist and hairdresser in a new lawsuit.

According to a report from CNN, a former makeup artist who worked for Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood made the shocking allegations.

Documents filed Thursday in California state court say Brooks raped the victim, “Jane Roe,” during a work trip in 2019 while Brooks was recording a Grammy performance.

The singer normally traveled with a team, but the two were alone on his private jet and he booked a hotel suite for both of them, the lawsuit says. In the lawsuit, the woman claims Brooks “showed up naked in the bedroom doorway and raped her.”

In the alleged victim’s filing, she claimed earlier that year that she was at Brooks’ home for work when he came out of the shower naked, “grabbed her hands and forced them on his genitals” while speaking sexually explicit and vulgar language to her Language. The lawsuit also accuses Brooks of exposing himself to her “many other times,” discussing sexual fantasies with her and sending her explicit messages.

The victim was reportedly hired for Yearwood in 1999 and then began styling Brooks in 2017.

Brooks reportedly filed his own lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi to block the makeup artist’s lawsuit, calling the allegations “completely untrue.”

Brooks said he filed the case anonymously “in the interest of the families on both sides.”

In Brooks’ complaint, he alleges the allegations were made after he denied her requests for employment and medical benefits. The singer asks the judge to stop the woman from “intentionally causing emotional distress, defamation and false invasion of privacy.” .”

“Over the past two months, I have been harassed endlessly with threats, lies and tragic stories about what my future would be if I did not write a multi-million dollar check,” Brooks said in a statement. “It was like a loaded gun was shoved in my face.”

“I trust the system, I am not afraid of the truth and I am not the man they portrayed me to be,” his statement concluded.

According to the lawsuit, the woman claims she was “compelled to continue working for Brooks due to financial difficulties that he knew about and took advantage of.”

The Associated Press reached out to Brooks’ publicist and attorney and did not immediately receive a response. An email to the woman’s lawyer asking whether she had reported the allegations to police was also not immediately answered.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.