Garth Brooks sues rape accuser for damages, publicly names her

Garth Brooks has named his sexual assault accuser and sued her for compensatory and punitive damages after alleging she tried to extort “thousands and thousands” from him, Web page Six can verify.

The nation singer, 62, filed the grievance on Tuesday with the District Courtroom for the Southern District of Mississippi Northern Division, in response to courtroom paperwork obtained by Web page Six Tuesday.

He named his accuser after trying to maintain their identities personal with a earlier courtroom submitting asking a decide to grant them a proper to anonymity.

“When Jane Roe threatened to publish lies about him — desiring to blackmail Plaintiff into paying her thousands and thousands of {dollars} — Plaintiff filed this lawsuit to protect his repute, set up the reality, and put a cease to her scheme,” his authentic submitting defined.

“For the sake of his household, and out of respect for Roe’s household as properly, Plaintiff titled this motion ‘John Doe
vs. Jane Roe.’”

As a result of his accuser allegedly leaked his identify, Brooks determined to submit a secondary submitting that included each of their names, per the authorized paperwork submitted Tuesday.

Within the submitting, the “Pals in Low Locations” hitmaker requested for “compensatory damages proximately attributable to Defendant’s intentional infliction of emotional misery, defamation, and false mild invasion of privateness, together with incidental and consequential damages” and “punitive damages in an quantity ample to discourage comparable future habits.”

Nonetheless, Brooks mentioned the financial damages “can’t adequately compensate” for the accidents to his repute.

“Defendant will endure no hardship from an injunction of her wrongful conduct, whereas Plaintiff will endure irreparable hurt if no injunction is issued,” the docs said.

Brooks’ new submitting additionally alleged his accuser despatched him a letter on July 17 during which she “threatened” to “publicly file” over the claims towards him until he agreed to pay her “thousands and thousands of {dollars} to not file the swimsuit.”

In an alleged second letter from August 23, the accuser wrote that she would “chorus from publicly submitting her false and defamatory lawsuit towards Plaintiff in trade for a multi-million greenback fee.”

Brooks claimed in his submission that the “allegations are usually not true” and requested for “a declaratory judgment that Defendant’s allegations towards him of sexual misconduct are unfaithful.”

He additionally confirmed the accuser labored for him for about 15 years as an unbiased contractor earlier than she relocated to Mississippi in 2020.

He alleged she fell into monetary hardship, which is when she requested “monetary help.”

“Plaintiff complied out of loyalty, friendship, and a need to enhance Defendant’s situation,” his submitting reads.

“However Defendant’s calls for for monetary help solely elevated, with Defendant in the end asking Plaintiff for salaried employment and medical advantages.”

The accuser’s attorneys, Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker, slammed Brooks in a response to his newest submitting.

“Garth Brooks simply revealed his true self. Out of spite and to punish, he publicly named a rape sufferer,” they mentioned in an announcement to Web page Six Tuesday night time.

“With no authorized justification, Brooks outed her as a result of he thinks the legal guidelines don’t apply to him. On behalf of our shopper, we will likely be transferring for optimum sanctions towards him instantly.”

Web page Six reached out to Brooks’ lawyer and rep for remark in response.

His submitting comes after he claimed to Web page Six through his rep that for 2 months he had been “hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future could be if I didn’t write a verify for a lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.”

“It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” he mentioned within the assertion shared final week. “Hush cash, regardless of how a lot or how little, continues to be hush cash.”

“In my thoughts, which means I’m admitting to habits I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different.”

Within the accuser’s Oct. 3 submitting, she claimed Brooks raped her throughout a piece journey to Los Angeles in 2019 and acted inappropriately on a number of events.

The submitting accused him of exposing his genitals to the accuser — who labored as his hairstylist on the time — commonly altering his clothes in entrance of her, expressing his sexual fantasies together with her and sending her sexually specific textual content messages.

She additionally accused him of constructing “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” together with his longtime spouse, Trisha Yearwood. Brooks has denied the allegations.

Yearwood, 60, has not publicly commented on the accusations. Her rep didn’t instantly reply to Web page Six’s authentic request for remark.