Garth Brooks is being sued for allegedly sexually assaulting a former hair and makeup artist. The unidentified accuser, who is listed as “Jane Roe” in the lawsuit, alleges that the country artist raped her in May 2019 on a work trip and engaged in other forms of sexual misconduct while she worked for him. According to the lawsuit , filed Thursday in California Superior Court, the rape occurred after the two traveled together alone on Brooks’ private jet.
The suit says that when they arrived at their hotel in Los Angeles, Roe “could not believe that Brooks had booked a hotel suite with one bedroom and she did not have a separate room.” Brooks “appeared in the doorway to the bedroom, completely naked” and Roe felt “trapped in the room alone with Brooks,” the lawsuit alleges. “As she began to panic, he grabbed her hands and pulled her into the next room and onto the bed where she could not escape his physical domination,” the suit reads.
The rape was “painful and traumatic,” according to the lawsuit, which says that at one point, Brooks “held her small body upside down by her feet and penetrated her.” Representatives for Brooks did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. After the alleged rape, the lawsuit says, Brooks continued to tell Roe his sexual fantasies and that he wanted to have a threesome with her and his wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood.
The suit also alleges that Brooks exposed his genitals to Roe, changed cloth.