Country Superstar Garth Brooks Denies Rape Allegation

LOS ANGELES, CA — Garth Brooks on Friday denied allegations that he violently raped a makeup artist in a Los Angeles hotel room before the 2019 Grammy's.

The allegations were made in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against the country superstar by an accuser identified as Jane Roe. The Los Angeles Police Department would not confirm to Patch Friday if the allegations are under criminal investigation nor whether they were ever reported to the police.

The attack was alleged to have occurred before the 2019 Grammy's, which occurred on Feb. 10 that year at Staples Center, as it was called at the time.

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Brooks noted that he had filed an earlier federal lawsuit last month in an attempt to prevent the woman from pursuing legal action, calling her allegations "untrue" and claiming the woman was trying to force him to give her money.

"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," Brooks said in a statement in response to the woman's lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court. "It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face."

In her lawsuit, the anonymous plaintiff claims she initially began working as a makeup and hair stylist for country artist Trisha Yearwood in 1999. Yearwood married Brooks in 2005, and the plaintiff began working for Brooks in 2017, according to the suit.

The lawsuit contends that Brooks, aware that the woman was having financial difficulties, hired her more often to increase her pay, but "it did not take long for Brooks to take advantage of her financial hardship."

The woman contends that she was at Brooks house in 2019 when Brooks walked up to her naked and put her hands on his genitals, saying "he had fantasized about this moment."

She also claims that in May of that year, she traveled with Brooks to Los Angeles, where he was performing a Grammy tribute to Sam Moore. On that trip, Brooks only booked one hotel suite for the two of them, with only one bedroom, according to the suit.

Once they were in the hotel suite, Brooks again approached her naked, and this time pulled her onto the bed and raped her, the lawsuit alleges.

In his statement denying any wrongdoing, Brooks said, "I trust the system. I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be."

The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

Brooks is married to country singer Trisha Yearwood. The couple sold their Tennessee home for $3.34 million hours before the rape allegations were made public, according to Realtor.com.

According to the lawsuit, the alleged victim began working for Yearwood in 1999 before going to work for Brooks.

Roe's attorney, Douglas H. Wigdor, responded to Brooks' statement on Friday, saying his client never tried to get millions in exchange for her silence.

"We are confident in our case and over time the public will see his true character rather than his highly curated persona," he said in a written statement.

City News Service contributed to this report.