A new lawsuit filed in California state court claims country star Garth Brooks sexually assaulted and assaulted his personal hair and makeup artist.
The lawsuit, filed by “Jane Roe” on October 3, 2024, alleges the incidents occurred during the years Roe worked for Brooks, although Brooks denies the accusations.
In the 27-page lawsuit, Law makes several claims against the country singer. She claims Brooks forced her to touch his erect penis in 2019 while he was at her home getting her hair done. That same year, Roe claimed Brooks took her to Los Angeles to style her for an event and then raped her in a hotel room.
Roe’s lawsuit also accuses Brooks of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks to her, talking to her about sex, sharing sexual fantasies and sending her sexually explicit text messages.
The lawsuit further states that Mr. Brooks tried to cover up his alleged harassment of Ms. Roe, going so far as to secretly take her cellphone and delete explicit texts he had sent her.
Law began working for Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood, in 1999, and Brooks himself began working there in 2017, according to the complaint. Lowe moved to Mississippi in 2021.
Mr. Roe’s attorneys, Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Haley Baker, said in a statement that Mr. Brooks had preemptively filed charges in Mississippi to “silence Mr. Roe.” He said that.
The September 13, 2024 Mississippi complaint was filed by “John Doe,” a “celebrity and public figure residing in the State of Tennessee.” Mr. Doe claimed in his filing that Mr. Low was extorting money and lying to damage his reputation. The Mississippi complaint also alleges that Roe threatened to file a complaint in California simply because Roe refused to pay her a raise and health insurance premiums.
In an Oct. 3 statement to TODAY.com, Brooks’ team confirmed he was the female in the Mississippi charges.
“(Roe’s) false allegations and her threat to unjustly assassinate (Brooks’) character by publishing such offensive and false allegations,” Mississippi’s complaint states, “condemned (Brooks) to This caused mental distress, including anxiety and fear, to the person and his family.” “(Mr. Roe’s) attempt to extort (Mr. Brooks) millions of dollars through such false and obscene allegations intended and actually caused (Mr. Brooks) significant emotional harm.” This was an intentional and outrageous act and amounted to intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
In a statement to TODAY.com, Mr. Brooks said he was “endlessly troubled” by Mr. Roe’s application.
“For the past two months, I have been bombarded with endless threats, lies, and tragic stories about what my future will be if I don’t write a check for millions of dollars. Waving a loaded gun, It was like holding it in my face,” Brooks said. “Hush money is still hush money, more or less. In my mind, it’s an admission of something you can’t do yourself, something ugly that a human being should never do to another person. That means.”
The statement continued: “We filed a lawsuit against this person almost a month ago against extortion and defamation. We filed the lawsuit anonymously on behalf of both families.” Ta.
“We want to play music tonight. We want to continue our good deeds. It breaks our hearts that these great things are now being called into question,” Brooks’ statement concluded. “I trust the system and I’m not afraid of the truth. And I’m not who they portray me to be.”
Brooks’ lawsuit seeks damages, a “declaratory judgment that defendant’s allegations of sexual misconduct are false,” an injunction restraining Roe from filing a lawsuit, and a jury trial.
Lowe’s lawsuit seeks damages and a jury trial.
“We commend our client’s courage in moving forward with the charges against Garth Brooks,” Roe’s lawyers said in a statement. “The charges filed today demonstrate that sex offenders exist not only in corporate America, in Hollywood, in the rap and rock and roll industries, but also in the world of country music.”
“We are confident that Mr. Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and that his efforts to silence our client by filing a pre-emptive complaint in Mississippi amounted to an act of desperation and attempted intimidation. None other than that,” the statement concludes. “No survivor should suffer in silence, so we encourage anyone who may have been affected to contact us.”
Hours after news of the lawsuit broke, Brooks shared a post on her Instagram page.
“If ever there was a night I really needed this, tonight is it!” he wrote in the caption.
Brooks performed in Las Vegas on October 3rd.
He concluded his post by writing, “Thank you for life!!!!”
Correction (October 4, 2024, 8:39 a.m.): An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the date the lawsuit was filed. It was submitted on October 3, 2024, not October 3, 2023.
