(Gray News) – Country music star Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault and battery in a lawsuit filed in California on Thursday, according to a report from CNN.
The report says the lawsuit accuses Brooks of raping a woman in 2019 who worked as his hairstylist and makeup artist.
The woman was only identified as “Jane Roe.”
She alleges the rape took place during a work trip in which Brooks only booked one hotel room for the two of them, and the woman was “shocked” to find out she did not have her own room.
In addition to the alleged sexual assault, the lawsuit “accuses Brooks of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks; talking about sex and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe; regularly changing his clothing in front of Roe; and sending sexually explicit text messages,” CNN reports.
Brooks has previously denied the claims, but he has not yet made a statement in response to the new lawsuit as of Thursday afternoon.
According to CNN, the woman began handling hair and makeup services for Brooks in 2017. She says she was first hired to do hair and makeup for his wife, Trisha Yearwood, in 1999.
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