In a brand new authorized submitting, nation singer Garth Brooks has publicly named a former worker who final week sued the musician for rape in a civil lawsuit.
Brooks, 62, on Tuesday informed the U.S. District Court docket in Mississippi the lady’s allegations are a part of an “ongoing tried extortion” meant to defame him and inflict emotional misery. He stated he’s “the sufferer of a shakedown.”
The lady, recognized as “Jane Roe” in authorized filings previous to Tuesday, stated the singer raped her in a Los Angeles resort room in 2019. Legal professionals for the lady informed the Los Angeles Instances that Brooks outed her identification “with no authorized justification as a result of he thinks the legal guidelines don’t apply to him.”
“Garth Brooks simply revealed his true self,” stated attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker.
Jane Roe informed the courtroom she was employed as a make-up and hair stylist for Brooks and his spouse, Trisha Yearwood, from 1999 to 2021.
All through two years of her employment, the lady claims Brooks quite a few occasions uncovered his genitals to her, groped her physique and despatched her sexually express textual content messages. Roe stated she continued to work for Brooks resulting from private monetary hardship, which he was conscious of.
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Previous to the lady’s civil lawsuit towards Brooks, filed in a California superior courtroom, the Buddies in Low Locations singer sued her for alleged extortion. The lawsuit was filed anonymously in Mississippi and known as Brooks “John Doe,” in addition to “a celeb and public determine who resides in Tennessee.”
Brooks informed the courtroom he’s been falsely accused of sexual assault by Jane Roe, who threatened authorized motion except supplied “a multimillion-dollar cost.”
He requested for the lawsuit to stay nameless to keep away from tarnishing his “well-earned good fame.”
The lady’s attorneys responded to Brooks’ submitting and informed the courtroom they’d sue in California.
“Ms. Roe respectfully requests that she might begin her California motion as she supposed to do, and use Mr. Doe’s identify, absent objection from this Honorable Court docket,” the authorized response learn.
The California lawsuit named Brooks, however not Jane Roe.
The lady’s attorneys stated they may “be shifting for optimum sanctions” towards Brooks for releasing her identify.
Brooks requested compensatory and punitive damages, in addition to a courtroom injunction to halt his accuser from “additional publicizing her false allegations.” He has requested for a trial by jury.
The singer’s attorneys justified naming the lady within the amended grievance. They stated her personal authorized illustration “wrested the choice” to call Brooks from the courtroom once they briefed CNN concerning the lawsuit, regardless of Brooks’ movement to proceed beneath pseudonyms nonetheless pending.
In a press release final week, amid widespread information protection of the allegations towards Brooks, he launched a press release claiming he didn’t need to give anybody “hush cash.”
“Hush cash, irrespective of how a lot or how little, remains to be hush cash. In my thoughts, which means I’m admitting to habits I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different,” he wrote. “I belief the system, I don’t worry the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be.”
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For those who or somebody you recognize is experiencing abuse or is concerned in an abusive state of affairs, please go to the Canadian Useful resource Centre for Victims of Crime for assist. They’re additionally reachable toll-free at 1-877-232-2610.
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