Garth Brooks Is Accused of Rape, But He Claims Accuser Is Trying to ‘Extort’ Him

Country music superstar Garth Brooks is facing legal troubles as he has been accused of sexual assault and battery. According to CNN, the alleged incident took place in 2019 and is being filed by a “Jane Roe” in the California state court system as of October 3.

The woman says she was raped by Brooks during her time as his hair and makeup artist. The court filing states that she began working for Brook’s wife, country singer Tricia Yearwood in 1999, and then began working with Brooks in 2017.

Brooks denies any involvement with the accuser, but instead said he has been threatened with blackmail. “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.” He continues in the statement to CNN, “Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of-ugly acts no human should ever to do another.”

Brooks has already fought back legally saying, “We filed suit against this person nearly a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of families on both sides.”

Roe claims that there were several instances of abuse, one being a time when Brooks “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals as he exited the shower. Another time, she alleges that she was raped in a hotel room in Los Angeles during a work trip for the Grammys.

Attorneys for Brooks addressed the claims in his lawsuit against Roe saying her lawyers sent a demand letter after he denied her request for “salaried employment and medical benefits.” Her attorneys responded about Brooks’ “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.”

Brooks cites a “demand letter” he received from Roe before she alleged sexual abuse on Thursday as a reason why he’s claiming she’s trying to extort him. According to People, the initial anonymous complaint that the country star filed on September 13 in Mississippi, he claimed his rape accuser encountered “financial difficulties” when she moved from Tennessee to Mississippi and asked him for assistance.

After he “complied” with Roe’s financial requests out of “loyalty” and “friendship,” Brooks claims that Roe’s monetary demands then “increased,” per People. Once Brooks no longer agreed to pay Roe more money and to her “demands for salaried employment and medical benefits, Brooks’ complaint alleges he was met with ‘false and outrageous allegations of sexual misconduct'” in a “confidential demand letter” from Roe’s attorneys in July. People report that the letter reportedly included allegations of “sexual grooming, creation of a sexually hostile work environment, unwanted sexual touching and sexual assault.”