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A hair and makeup artist has accused the country singer Garth Brooks of sexual assault and battery in a civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, CNN reported.
The anonymous accuser, referred to in the complaint as “Jane Roe”, alleges that Brooks raped her during a work trip to Los Angeles in 2019, and that he repeatedly groped her and made sexually explicit comments while she was doing his hair or makeup throughout 2019.
Representatives for Brooks did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the allegations.
Roe is represented in the case by Douglas Wigdor, an attorney known as a “leading #MeToo lawyer” who previously represented women who accused Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly and Joe Biden of sexual misconduct.
Wigdor and the plantiff’s other lawyers alleged that Brooks took advantage of the makeup artist while she was experiencing financial hardship, first offering her paid work, and then engaging in a pattern of sexual harassment and sexual assault, which they describe in the lawsuit in graphic detail.
“The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood and in the rap and rock and roll industries but also in the world of country music,” Wigdor and two other attorneys for the plantiff, Jeanne Christensen and Hayley Baker, said in a statement to the Guardian.
Attorneys for “Jane Roe” said that Brooks previously filed a federal lawsuit against their client in Mississippi last month, in an attempt to block her from publicizing her allegations against him.
CNN previously reported on the “highly unusual legal battle” in Mississippi, in which an anonymous celebrity plaintiff asked a federal court to “to declare a sexual assault accuser’s allegations untrue and stop her from further publicizing them”. The plaintiff in that case alleged that the accuser was “attempting to extort and defame him with ‘false allegations’ that would ‘irreparably harm’ his reputation and career”, CNN reported.
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