Garth Brooks is fighting back against a woman’s sexual assault allegations.
Days before his former hairstylist and makeup artist accused him of rape and other sex crimes in a California lawsuit using the alias Jane Roe, the country star preemptively filed a lawsuit in Mississippi to block her from suing. However, after he was identified as the plaintiff in the press, he filed an amended complaint that noted the woman’s name.
“[Brooks] is the victim of a shakedown,” the country wrote in legal documents filed Oct. 8 and obtained by E! News. “When Jane Roe threatened to publish lies about him—intending to blackmail [Brooks] into paying her millions of dollars—he filed this lawsuit to preserve his reputation, establish the truth, and put a stop to her scheme.”
In his amended complaint, also filed Oct. 8 and obtained by E! News, Brooks alleged that two months before his accuser came forward with her suit, he was sent a demand letter from her lawyer containing allegations of “sexual ‘grooming,’ creation of a sexually hostile work environment, unwanted sexual touching, and sexual assault.”
