This week, Garth Brooks has found himself at the center of a new lawsuit accusing him of rape. One woman who used to work for the country star is claiming that there were multiple instances of sexual assault that took place over the course of 2019, including Brooks bringing up the idea of having a threesome with her and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, on multiple occasions.
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The lawsuit was filed in California on Thursday.
According to court documents obtained by People, the woman, who is going by Jane Roe, has made multiple allegations against Brooks. The outlet reports that those allegations include that the singer raped her, sent her sexually explicit text messages, exposed his genitals and buttocks to her, changed clothing in front of her, and spoke about sex and his fantasies with her openly.
Jane Roe is a hairstylist and makeup artist.
In the suit, she says she met Brooks when she began working as Yearwood’s stylist in 1999. In 2017, she started working directly with Brooks, who she said began to work with her more often when he found out she was facing “financial difficulties.”
But in 2019, Brooks allegedly took advantage of their working relationship by placing Roe’s hands on his penis after he got out of the shower and asking her to “perform oral sex on him.” During a trip to Los Angeles for a Grammys event in May 2019, Roe claimed that Brooks booked a one-room hotel suite for them to share and proceeded to rape her.
After this alleged event happened, Roe’s lawyers wrote that “Brooks increased the frequency of saying his sexual fantasies about her aloud, along with his physical gropings of her breasts while she was doing his hair and makeup.”
Brooks' wife, Trisha Yearwood, did come up in conversation.
“Brooks increased the frequency of his sexually charged conversations with Ms. Roe, and this included his repeated remarks about having a threesome with his wife in which he implied that Ms. Roe would be the third person,” said the lawsuit.
Roe said that she believes Yearwood overheard those conversations “on at least one occasion.”
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Brooks has denied these claims.
In a statement to People after the suit was filed, Brooks said that Roe had “hassled [him] to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars.”
This prompted Brooks to file an anonymous suit against Roe in July to “speak out against extortion and defamation of character.”
He went on to refute her claims. “I want to play music tonight. I want to continue our good deeds going forward,” he said. “It breaks my heart these wonderful things are in question now. I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be.”
Roe's attorneys don't seem concerned about being able to prove her accusations are true.
“We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client through the filing of a preemptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation,” her attorneys, Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker, said in a statement, via People. “We encourage others who may have been victimized to contact us as no survivor should suffer in silence.”
