Editor-in-Chief, Legal, Labor & Politics

Less than a week after Garth Brooks was accused of rape in California, the country singer was back in federal court in Mississippi today to thwart his own efforts to keep his real names out of the case.

After being outed in a graphic filing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 3 by a certain “Jane Roe,” Brooks released an amended complaint Tuesday revealing the identity of the former makeup artist and stylist to himself and his wife and fellow country music icon Trisha Yearwood.

With talk of his “stellar public image and selfless philanthropic work” in jeopardy, Brooks today described himself as “the victim of extortion” and a “blackmail” scheme by Jane Roe to get him to pay her “millions of dollars.”