{"id":2882,"date":"2024-10-03T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/garth-brooks-sued-for-sexual-assault-by-hair-makeup-artist\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:46:14","slug":"garth-brooks-sued-for-sexual-assault-by-hair-makeup-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/garth-brooks-sued-for-sexual-assault-by-hair-makeup-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Sued for Sexual Assault by Hair & Makeup Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tCountry music star Garth Brooks is facing a lawsuit over allegations that he sexually assaulted an unnamed woman while she worked for him as a hairstylist and makeup artist.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a lawsuit filed Thursday (Oct. 3) in Los Angeles court, attorneys for the anonymous Jane Roe accuser claim Brooks raped her during a May 2019 stay in a Los Angeles hotel room and also exposed her to \u201cother appalling sexual conduct\u201d during that same year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit claims that the singer took advantage of the accuser\u2019s mounting financial troubles to subject her to \u201ca side of Brooks that he conceals from the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis side of Brooks believes he is entitled to sexual gratification when he wants it, and using a female employee to get it is fair game,\u201d Roe\u2019s attorneys write.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, the accuser also alleges that Brooks was behind a mysterious lawsuit filed last month, obtained by Billboard<\/em>, in which an anonymous \u201ccelebrity\u201d plaintiff sued in Mississippi federal court over an an unnamed accuser\u2019s sexual abuse allegations. Calling the accusations false and an \u201congoing attempted extortion,\u201d the earlier case asked a judge to stop her from further publicizing them.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe abusive Mississippi action by Brooks is a blatant attempt to further control and bully his sexual assault victims by utilizing his multimillionaire resources to game the legal system,\u201d Roe\u2019s lawyers write in Thursday\u2019s complaint. \u201cBrooks is desperate to prevent his millions of fans from learning about the horrific things he has said and done to a junior female employee who did nothing to deserve such treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA representative for Brooks did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her lawsuit, the plaintiff claims she began working in 1999 for Brooks\u2019 wife, Trisha Yearwood, but started to work for Brooks in 2017. When she experienced financial difficulties in 2019, she says Brooks offered to help her by giving her more work.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first alleged incident occurred earlier in 2019, when Brooks allegedly emerged from the shower naked and forced the accuser to touch his erect penis and said he had fantasized about her performing oral sex on him. She says she denied his advances but continued to work for him.<\/p>\n

\n\tMonths later, in May, Roe claims that when she and Brooks stayed together in a Los Angeles hotel, he booked only a single room for both of them. She claims that during their stay, he violently raped her in the room.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the months that followed, the plaintiff claims Brooks repeatedly acted inappropriately toward her in other ways, including sending sexually explicit text messages, physically groping her breasts, and making sexually charged remarks toward her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe applaud our client\u2019s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks,\u201d said the accuser\u2019s attorneys, from the prominent plaintiff\u2019s firm Wigdor LLP. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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