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Top private investigator: Garth Brooks says the claims made in a contemporary sexual assault lawsuit from a makeup artist are an strive at extortion.
The criticism change into filed in California and alleges that the invent-up artist Jane Roe “continued painful and stressful rape and sexual assault at the fingers of Brooks.” The lawsuit alleges the unfavorable behavior began in 2019 when Ms. Roe change into at the Brooks home on a styling appointment. She says she regarded as much as bag Brooks rising from the bathe naked with an erection. Roe alleges that he forced her to touch his erection while soliciting for she produce intercourse acts.
The lawsuit alleges one other incident in 2019 that Ms. Roe change into physically dominated and raped by Brooks while employed for an tournament. Following the rape, Ms. Roe alleges she change into forced by time to proceed alternate as frequent to model his hair and invent-up for the tournament he change into attending. Roe says she consistently warded off his sexual behavior but grew to change into field to verbal and physically unfavorable assaults.
In response to the allegations laid forth in the lawsuit, Brooks says, “For the final two months, I even collect been hassled to no stop with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future will seemingly be if I did no longer write a take a look at for many millions of bucks. It has been cherish having a loaded gun waved in my face.”
Closing month, Brooks filed a lawsuit against. Ms. Jane Roe in Mississippi, which his crew calls an strive to preempt her going public with the allegations. But Ms. Roe’s lawyers imagine the preemptive criticism in Mississippi change into timed to proceed anonymously after studying of her design to file her criticism in California.
“We applaud our client’s courage in keen forward alongside with her criticism against Garth Brooks,” reads an announcement offered by Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen, and Haley Baker. “The criticism filed right this moment demonstrated that sexual predators exist no longer excellent in corporate The US, Hollywood, and in the rap and rock and roll industries, but additionally on this planet of country song.”
“We’re assured that Brooks will likely be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client thru the filing of a pre-emptive criticism in Mississippi change into nothing varied than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation. We courage others who could collect been victimized to contact us as no survivor will collect to serene undergo in silence.”
