A hair and make-up artist has accused the nation singer Garth Brooks of sexual assault and battery in a civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, CNN reported.
The nameless accuser, referred to within the criticism as “Jane Roe”, alleges that Brooks raped her throughout a piece journey to Los Angeles in 2019, and that he repeatedly groped her and made sexually specific feedback whereas she was doing his hair or make-up all through 2019.
Representatives for Brooks didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the allegations.
Roe is represented within the case by Douglas Wigdor, an legal professional generally known as a “main #MeToo lawyer” who beforehand represented ladies who accused Harvey Weinstein, Invoice O’Reilly and Joe Biden of sexual misconduct.
Wigdor and the plantiff’s different attorneys alleged that Brooks took benefit of the make-up artist whereas she was experiencing monetary hardship, first providing her paid work, after which partaking in a sample of sexual harassment and sexual assault, which they describe within the lawsuit in graphic element.
“The criticism filed right this moment demonstrates that sexual predators exist not solely in company America, Hollywood and within the rap and rock and roll industries but additionally on the earth of nation music,” Wigdor and two different attorneys for the plantiff, Jeanne Christensen and Hayley Baker, stated in a press release to the Guardian.
Attorneys for “Jane Roe” stated that Brooks beforehand filed a federal lawsuit towards their shopper in Mississippi final month, in an try to dam her from publicizing her allegations towards him.
CNN beforehand reported on the “extremely uncommon authorized battle” in Mississippi, during which an nameless movie star plaintiff requested a federal courtroom to “to declare a sexual assault accuser’s allegations unfaithful and cease her from additional publicizing them”. The plaintiff in that case alleged that the accuser was “trying to extort and defame him with ‘false allegations’ that will ‘irreparably hurt’ his popularity and profession”, CNN reported.
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