A long time make-up artist and stylist to Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks is alleging that ‘The Thunder Rolls’ singer brutally sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions in an extremely graphic lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles.
“Brooks seized what he saw as an opportunity to subject a female employee to a side of Brooks that he conceals from the public, the jury trial seeking complaint says of the financially strapped Jane Roe once the country superstar started hiring her more in 2019. “This 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.”
With accounts of repeated “painful and traumatic” rape, battery and other assaults, “fair game” is an understatement in a filing so vivid that at one point it talks about actions by multiple Grammy winner Brooks to sordid “to mention here.”
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Asking for unspecified damages, the six-claim complaint from Jane Roe comes as Brooks himself, under the cloak of a John Doe, went to federal court in Mississippi a couple of weeks ago to stop the so-called “fabricated lawsuit” from doing “substantial, irreparable damage” to his reputation and livelihood.
In fact, the Wigdor Law represented Jane Roe calls out the Brooks suit in her own action.
“The Abusive Mississippi Action by Brooks is a blatant attempt to further control and bully his sexual assault victim by utilizing his multi-millionaire resources to game the legal system,” declares Jane Roe’s complaint of the initial action by the singer “while pretending to be in discussions with Ms. Roe to resolve her legal claims against him.”
Jane Roe’s filing goes on to say: “Brooks 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. But our legal system is not in place to allow wealthy wrongdoers the ability to run work-arounds on sexual assault victims who attempt to hold perpetrators accountable.”
Representatives for Brooks have not responded to request for comment from Deadline on the sexual assault allegations. If they do, this post will be updated.
Jane Roe’s attorneys did have something to say outside of the confines of their client’s detailed complaint
“We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks,” lawyers Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen, and Hayley Baker in a joint statement as Jane Roe’s complaint was being filed in LASC on Thursday.
“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,” the trio adds. “We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client through the filing of a preemptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation. We encourage others who may have been victimized to contact us as no survivor should suffer in silence.”
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