Garth Brooks identifies sexual assault accuser in Mississippi lawsuit

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A country music superstar accused of rape has released the name of his accuser.

On Tuesday, Garth Brooks filed an amended complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

In this amended filing, Brooks names his accuser.

Although the name is now listed in public records, WLBT News does not publish the names of sexual assault victims or alleged victims of sexual assault.

Brooks filed the lawsuit last month to prevent the woman from going public with allegations that he raped and sexually assaulted her in 2019 while she worked as his hairdresser.

The complaint was initially filed under a pseudonym, identifying Brooks as “John Doe” and the alleged accuser as “Jane Roe.”

Brooks claims Roe threatened to go public with allegations of extorting money against him.

He denies the allegations, saying fear of them has caused “such disgusting and untrue allegations…emotional distress, including fear and anxiety for him and his family.”

The amended motion comes just days after Roe filed suit in California state court. In that complaint, Roe says Brooks learned of her financial distress and used it to take advantage of her.

She claims that in 2019, while she was at Brooks’ home to style his hair and put on makeup, he came out of the shower naked and forced her to grab his penis.

Later in 2019, she said Brooks asked her to travel with him to Los Angeles for a Grammy program.

She claims the two flew alone together on Brooks’ private plane, and when they arrived, they learned that Brooks had booked a hotel suite with a bed for both of them.

She then claims that Brooks raped her while the two were alone in the suite, at one point “holding her little body upside down by her feet.”

“She couldn’t escape his grasp and was afraid of what was happening to her. “As he held her upside down and dangled her by her ankles, all the blood rushed to her head, causing her to become dizzy and sick,” her lawyers wrote. Later, [Roe’s] Lawyers said it was “business as usual.” [And that] Ms. Roe worked quickly to style his hair and do his makeup for the event so he was on time.”

However, Brooks says he was the victim of “extortion” and that the defendant “once had a trusted member of Plaintiff’s professional team… hatch a malicious extortion plan.” [him] to pay her millions of dollars [after] He denied her requests for employment and medical care.”

He said that instead of allowing the district court to rule on his request for anonymity, Roe “short-circuited the court process” by filing the lawsuit in California and leaking information to the media.

“Although we promised on October 1st to wait and see whether the court objected to the disclosure [the] Name of Plaintiff in California Lawsuit, [Roe] leaked [the] “I disclosed the identity of the plaintiff to the press less than 48 hours later,” adding that legal documents had already been published by national media before the lawsuit was filed.

“The only reasonable explanation is that [Roe] “I have seized the opportunity to harm Plaintiff by depriving this Court of authority to consider and rule on Plaintiff’s request to proceed under pseudonyms,” he wrote. “If [she] While she could have waited five years to file a lawsuit against plaintiff, she could have waited for this court to rule on the motion.”

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