Garth Brooks' Former Makeup Artist Files Lawsuit Alleging He Raped Her

Garth Brooks is being sued for allegedly sexually assaulting a former hair and makeup artist.

The unidentified accuser, who is listed as “Jane Roe” in the lawsuit, alleges that the country artist raped her in May 2019 on a work trip and engaged in other forms of sexual misconduct while she worked for him.

According to the lawsuit, filed Thursday in California Superior Court, the rape occurred after the two traveled together alone on Brooks’ private jet. The suit says that when they arrived at their hotel in Los Angeles, Roe “could not believe that Brooks had booked a hotel suite with one bedroom and she did not have a separate room.”

Brooks “appeared in the doorway to the bedroom, completely naked” and Roe felt “trapped in the room alone with Brooks,” the lawsuit alleges.

“As she began to panic, he grabbed her hands and pulled her into the next room and onto the bed where she could not escape his physical domination,” the suit reads.

The rape was “painful and traumatic,” according to the lawsuit, which says that at one point, Brooks “held her small body upside down by her feet and penetrated her.”

In a statement to HuffPost, Brooks said he has been “hassled” with “threats” and “lies” if he did not write “a check for many millions of dollars.”

“It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” Brooks said. “Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of — ugly acts no human should ever do to another. We filed suit against this person nearly a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of families on both sides.”

According to the lawsuit, after the alleged rape,