Garth Brooks has been compared to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in a statement issued by his alleged rape victim’s lawyer. The country music giant, 62, was hit by a court claim on Thursday (03.10.
24) by a woman identified only as Jane Roe – who says she spent years working as the musician’s hairstylist and make-up artist – that he raped her. He hit back by branding the case part of an attempt to extort him, and the woman’s lawyer has now released a damning statement in response. Attorney Douglas H Wigdor said: “I cannot get into settlement discussions, but the suggestion made by Brooks that he was unwilling to pay millions (to Jane Roe) is simply not true.
“It seems as though Sean Combs and Garth Brooks are using the same public relations team by attacking legitimate victims.” Mr Wigdor’s statement went on: “We are very confident in our case and over time the public will see his true character rather than his highly curated persona.” The attorney and his associates filed a lawsuit on Thursday in California on behalf of their anonymous client, who says in her suit Garth raped her in 2019 after she was hired as a hairstylist for the singer and his 60-year-old wife Trisha Yearwood.
Garth said in a statement after the claim was made public: “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. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my .
