LOS ANGELES, Oct 4 — US country music star Garth Brooks stands accused of raping a makeup artist in her hotel room in a lawsuit filed in California yesterday, in the latest claim of sexual wrongdoing to rock the entertainment world. The woman, identified in the filing as Jane Roe, says the singer also repeatedly subjected her to unwanted sexual advances, including exposing himself and groping her when they were working together in 2019. The lawsuit is the latest to be levelled against a high-profile man in the entertainment industry after a slew of claims rocked television and film over the last decade, in a reckoning that came to be known as the #MeToo movement.
It also comes days after more than 100 people filed suit against rapper and music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, alleging he subjected them to sexual abuse, on top of the federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges he is already facing. "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 accuser's attorneys Douglas Wigdor, Jeanne Christensen and Hayley Baker said in a statement sent to AFP . “We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions.
” The suit, filed in Los Angeles, says Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit in September in Mississippi. In that action, which he filed under an alias, he sought an injunction blocking “extortionate condu.