Garth Brooks accused of sexual assault in lawsuit from former employee
Jane Roe has accused the country star of pattern of unwanted advances over a two year period
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Country music superstar Garth Brooks has been accused of rape and sexual harassment. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in California court, an anonymous former employee of Brooks’ accused the “Friends In Low Places” singer of raping her in a Los Angeles hotel room and subjecting her to a pattern of unwanted sexual advances for around two years, as reported by The New York Times.
The accuser was not named in the suit but was identified as a hair and makeup stylist who worked for Brooks and his wife, fellow country singer Trisha Yearwood, from 2017 through 2020.
According to NYT, litigation over the case actually began three weeks ago with an anonymous suit filed in Mississippi. The plaintiff in that suit was identified as John Doe, but was described in the filing as “a celebrity and public figure who resides in Tennessee.” In the suit, which lawyers for the anonymous accuser framed as a move to get ahead of things and silence her, the plaintiff alleged that a woman residing in Mississippi (“Jane Roe”) had made “false and outrageous allegations of sexual misconduct she claims occurred years ago.”