Country star Garth Brooks denies sexual assault and battery allegations

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Country star Garth Brooks was accused of sexual assault and battery by his makeup artist and hairstylist in a new lawsuit, according to reports.

A former makeup artist who worked for Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, made the shocking allegations, according to a report by CNN.

Documents that were filed in a state court in California Thursday alleged that Brooks raped the victim, "Jane Roe," during a work trip in 2019 when Brooks was taping a Grammy performance.

The singer normally traveled with a team, but the two were alone on his private jet, and he booked one hotel suite for both of them, the lawsuit says. In the lawsuit, the woman alleges Brooks appeared "naked in the doorway to the bedroom and raped her."

In the alleged victim's filing, she claimed earlier that same year she was at Brooks’ home for work, when he walked out of the shower naked, "grabbed her hands and forced them" onto his genitals, while speaking to her with sexually explicit and vulgar language. The lawsuit also alleges Brooks exposed himself to her "many other times," spoke about sexual fantasies with her and sent her explicit messages.

The victim was reportedly hired to work for Yearwood in 1999 and then began styling Brooks in 2017.

Reports stated that Brooks filed his own lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi trying to block the makeup artist's lawsuit, calling the allegations "wholly untrue."

Brooks said he filed the case anonymously “for the sake of families on both sides.”

In Brooks' complaint, he claims the allegations were brought on after he declined her request for salaried employment and medical benefits.The singer is asking the judge to stop the woman from "intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy.”

"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,” a statement from Brooks read. “It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face."

I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be," his statement concluded.

According to the lawsuit, the woman is claiming she was "forced to keep working for Brooks because of financial hardship, which he knew about and took advantage of."

The Associated Press reached out to Brooks' publicist and attorney and was not immediately answered. An email to the woman's attorney asking if she reported the allegations to police was also not immediately answered.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.