Garth Brooks accused of raping and battering hairstylist

US country music star Garth Brooks has been hit with a damning lawsuit, accused of raping and battering a woman who worked as his hairstylist.

Garth Brooks has been accused of raping and battering a woman who claims she worked as his hairstylist and makeup artist.

The woman — identified as “Jane Roe” — is suing the country star, 62, for sexual assault and battery, according to CNN.

Per the complaint, which was filed Thursday in California and obtained by the outlet, the alleged incidents occurred in 2019.

According to CNN, Brooks previously denied his accuser’s allegations, though his reps did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment on her lawsuit.

The filing accuses Brooks of repeatedly exposing his genitalia to Roe; regularly changing his clothing in front of her; talking about sex and his sexual fantasies with her; and sending her sexually explicit text messages.

During one alleged incident in 2019, Roe claims she was at Brooks’ home for work when he walked out of the shower naked, “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitalia while saying vulgar things to her.

Garth Brooks has not yet publicly responded to the allegations in the new lawsuit. Picture: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for ACM

During another alleged incident in May of that same year, Roe claims Brooks raped her in a hotel room during a work trip to Los Angeles, where the musician was taping a Grammy tribute performance.

According to the suit, the pair travelled to LA together on his private plane.

“Usually there were others on Brooks’ private jet, but this time, Ms. Roe and Brooks were the only two passengers,” the complaint states, claiming that Brooks also “booked a hotel suite with one bedroom.”

Once inside the suite, Roe alleges that the singer-songwriter “appeared in the doorway to the bedroom, completely naked,” which made her feel “trapped.”

After the alleged rape, Roe claims that Brooks groped her and continued to tell her about his sexual desires, which allegedly included “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” with his wife, Trisha Yearwood, whom he wed in 2005.

Garth Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood. Picture: Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for ACM

The complaint states that Roe began working for Brooks in 2017 but was first hired to do hair and makeup for Yearwood, 60, in 1999.

According to CNN, an anonymous celebrity plaintiff — whom the outlet identified as Brooks — previously tried to stop Roe from making her allegations public; he denied the claims in a previous complaint he filed as “John Doe.”

As Doe, Brooks claimed in his lawsuit that Roe’s lawyer sent him a demand letter alleging sexual misconduct after he had denied her request for “salaried employment and medical benefits.”

“Defendant’s allegations are not true,” he insisted in his suit. “Defendant is well aware, however, of the substantial, irreparable damage such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned reputation as a decent and caring person, along with the unavoidable damage to his family and the irreparable damage to his career and livelihood that would result if she made good on her threat to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”

Roe’s lawyers — Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker — told CNN that Brooks’ “efforts to silence [their] client through the filing of a pre-emptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation.”

“We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions,” the lawyers went on. “We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks. The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood and in the rap and rock and roll industries but also in the world of country music.”

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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