Garth Brooks’ wife sold $3m property 24 hours before rape lawsuit

Garth Brooks’ wife made a multi-million-dollar deal just 24 hours before he was sued for rape and battery this week.

Trisha Yearwood, who has been married to Garth Brooks since 2005, sold her house in Brentwood, Tennessee, this week — just 24 hours before her country superstar husband was sued for rape and battery.

A Realtor.com listing for the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom home shows it was sold October 2 for $US3,340,000.

The 6,553-square-foot property had been listed many times over the years, but did not sell despite several price reductions. It was most recently put back on the market on September 11.

A local Fox News article states Yearwood, 60, bought the estate back in 2000 and it served as the set location for her Emmy-winning cooking show, Trisha’s Southern Kitchen.

The picturesque single-family home boasts a chefs’ kitchen with high-end Wolf appliances, a fireplace, in-ground pool, and two gated entrances for added privacy.

Garth Brooks’ wife Trisha Yearwood unloaded a $3.3m property 24 hours before he was sued this week. Picture: Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for ACM

Page Six has reached out to Yearwood’s rep for comment on the timing of the sale but did not immediately hear back.

On Thursday, a woman identified only as Jane Roe filed a sexual assault and battery lawsuit against Brooks, 62, in California.

She claimed the country crooner made unwanted sexual advances toward her on multiple occasions when she allegedly worked for him as a hairstylist and makeup artist.

Among Roe’s most bombshell claims was the allegation that in May 2019, while on a work trip to Los Angeles for a Grammys tribute, Brooks booked a hotel room just for the two of them, where he raped her.

She also claimed that during a separate incident that same year, the singer walked out naked in front of Roe after taking a shower at his home.

He allegedly “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals while saying vulgar things to her.

Roe also claimed Brooks made “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” with her and Yearwood.

The husband and wife are both country music superstars. Picture: AFP

Brooks has denied the allegations via his rep and claimed he is a victim of extortion.

“For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” the country star told Page Six in a statement earlier this week.

“Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behaviour I am incapable of — ugly acts no human should ever do to another.”

Brooks filed his own lawsuit against Roe last month, citing the extortion claims as well as “defamation of character,” in an effort to stop her from making her accusations public.

Brooks added, “I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be.”

Brooks was back onstage at his Las Vegas concert within hours of the suit getting filed on Thursday.

Brooks is continuing his tour and has vehemently denied the allegations against him. Picture: Getty Images for ACM

Yearwood, for her part, has not released a statement yet on the matter.

The couple — who has been married for nearly two decades and share daughters, Taylor, August, and Alli — have seemingly had a strong marriage up until this point.

Yearwood gushed to People just this week that she and Brooks are “best friends,” while he added, “We have a love that’s going to last beyond this lifetime. I found her in the last life. I’ll find her in the next one.”

He added that while he enjoys being his wife’s partner during the good times, also “going through the bad times together because that makes you one.”

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.