Country music star Garth Brooks publicly named the woman who accused him of sexual assault and battery in a legal filing on Tuesday, drawing a harsh rebuke from her lawyers. The woman, a hairstylist who worked for Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, filed a lawsuit last week under the pseudonym Jane Roe in Los Angeles County Superior Court , accusing Brooks of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room in 2019. The lawsuit included several more allegations against Brooks, including that he would purposefully expose his genitals while changing his clothes in front of her, force her to touch his genitals, send her explicit text messages and pressure her to engage in sexting with him.
Shortly before the woman filed her suit against him, Brooks sued her in federal court, claiming she was trying to extort and defame him. In Brooks’ suit, which was initially filed on Oct. 3 as John Doe v.
Jane Roe, Brooks asked a judge to stop his accuser from further publicizing her charges against him. “Defendant’s allegations are not true,” Brooks’ complaint said. “Defendant is well aware, however, of the substantial, irreparable damage such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned reputation as a decent and caring person, along with the unavoidable damage to his family and the irreparable damage to his career and livelihood that would result if she made good on her threat to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.
” On Tuesday, he amended his complaint to include .
