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 instructed 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 lodge room in 2019. Attorneys for the lady instructed 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 instructed the court docket 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 instances uncovered his genitals to her, groped her physique and despatched her sexually specific textual content messages. Roe stated she continued to work for Brooks on account of 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 court docket, the Associates in Low Locations singer sued her for alleged extortion. The lawsuit was filed anonymously in Mississippi and referred to as Brooks “John Doe,” in addition to “a celeb and public determine who resides in Tennessee.”
Brooks instructed the court docket he’s been falsely accused of sexual assault by Jane Roe, who threatened authorized motion except offered “a multimillion-dollar cost.”
He requested for the lawsuit to stay nameless to keep away from tarnishing his “well-earned good status.”
The lady’s attorneys responded to Brooks’ submitting and instructed the court docket they’d sue in California.
“Ms. Roe respectfully requests that she could begin her California motion as she meant to do, and use Mr. Doe’s title, 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’ll “be shifting for optimum sanctions” towards Brooks for releasing her title.
Brooks requested compensatory and punitive damages, in addition to a court docket 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 criticism. They stated her personal authorized illustration “wrested the choice” to call Brooks from the court docket after they briefed CNN concerning the lawsuit, regardless of Brooks’ movement to proceed beneath pseudonyms nonetheless pending.
In an announcement final week, amid widespread information protection of the allegations towards Brooks, he launched an announcement claiming he didn’t wish to give anybody “hush cash.”
“Hush cash, irrespective of how a lot or how little, continues to be hush cash. In my thoughts, which means I’m admitting to conduct I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different,” he wrote. “I belief the system, I don’t concern the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be.”
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If you happen to or somebody 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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