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Garth Brooks BREAKS SILENCE After Rape Accusations Against His and Trisha Yearwood's Makeup Artist | E!
UPDATE, 6:22 p.m.: Hours after Jane Roe sued Garth Brooks on rape and other allegations, the singer is calling the allegations an extortion scheme worth "millions of dollars."
“For the past two months, I have been harassed endlessly with threats, lies, and tragic stories about what my future would be like if I didn’t write a check for millions of dollars,” Brooks said in a statement his team sent to Deadline tonight. “It was like a loaded gun being held in my face.”
The former makeup artist and stylist to Brooks and his wife, fellow country music superstar Trisha Yearwood, said in her filing Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court that she was the victim of an extremely violent attack by the “Friends in Low Places” singer, as well as persistent groping, lewd comments and more over the course of several years, beginning in 2019. Jane Roe alleged that Brooks took advantage of her, in no small part because he knew how much work she needed, and took aim at the artist in a lawsuit he filed last month in Mississippi to prevent her from going public.
