Garth Brooks Dismisses Sexual Assault and Battery Case

garth brooks He filed a lawsuit to dismiss the sexual assault and battery case filed against him.

Brooks, 62, filed a new motion late on Friday, November 8. Deadline, I am requesting a hearing to officially end the legal battle. He had previously asked for the case to be transferred from Mississippi to federal court. The hearing is requested to be held on December 9.

“In fact, a few days after Brooks’ attorney met with Roe’s attorney to discuss this Motion to Dismiss, Roe filed a motion asking the court in the Southern District of Mississippi to transfer the Mississippi Case to this Court because: According to Roe, “Brooks’ tort claims against Roe are necessarily counterclaims arising from the same set of factual facts,” the court documents read.

Roe, the anonymous hairdresser who accused Brooks of assault, did not respond to her claims. But one of his attorneys, Jeanne M. Christensen, told Deadline: “This is just more of the same bullying and intimidation that Garth Brooks used from the moment he learned our client planned to hold him accountable. “We look forward to appearing in front of the jury and getting to the bottom of this case.”

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According to court documents obtained Us Weeklya woman identified as “Jane Roe” filed a lawsuit against the country singer on October 3 She claims Brooks raped her During a business trip to Los Angeles in 2019. Roe also alleged that Brooks sent her sexually explicit text messages, repeatedly exposed his genitals and buttocks to her, and discussed his sexual fantasies in front of her. She also claimed Brooks came out of the shower naked and “grabbed her hands and forced them against his genitals” during an alleged incident in 2019.

Roe started working for Brooks in 2017 after previously being hired to do hair and makeup for her now-husband. Trisha Year TreeIn 1999, according to the lawsuit.

Before Roe’s complaint, Brooks had denied the allegations in an anonymous filing intended to prevent Roe from sharing her allegations publicly.

It was claimed in the file that “the defendant’s allegations are not true.” “However, the Defendant is well aware that such false allegations will cause significant, irreparable damage to the Plaintiff’s well-deserved reputation as a good and caring person, as well as the inevitable harm to his family and irreparable damage to his career and livelihood. “If he fulfills his threat of ‘opening it’, it will result in this result.”

Roe’s lawyers issued a statement and took shots at Brooks. WeHe stated that “efforts to silence” his clients were “nothing but an attempt to desperation and intimidation”.

“We are confident that Brooks will be held responsible for his actions,” the lawyers said in a statement. Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen And Hayley Baker continued. “We appreciate our client’s courage in bringing his complaint against Garth Brooks. “The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual harassers exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood, and the rap and rock and roll industries, but also in the world of country music.”

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Brooks later He broke his silence against the allegations.

“For the last two months, I have been endlessly dealt with threats, lies, and tragic stories about what my future would be like if I didn’t write a check for millions of dollars,” he said. We In a statement dated October 3. “It’s like there’s a loaded gun pointed at my face.”

“Hush money, no matter how much or little it is, is still hush money. “To me, this means that I am accepting outrageous acts that no human being should ever do to another, behavior that I cannot do,” he continued. “We filed a lawsuit against this person about a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation of character. We are doing this anonymously for the sake of the families of both parties.” “We presented it as

“I want to play music tonight,” the country star said. “I want to continue our good work from now on. It breaks my heart that these wonderful things are no longer in question. I trust the system, I am not afraid of the truth, and I am not the man they portray me to be.”

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Later that month, Brooks filed a complaint He filed a claim for compensatory and punitive damages against his accuser, claiming that he was “the victim of a concussion.” In the Oct. 8 filing, Brooks alleged that his accuser “threatened” in a July letter to “make fabricated allegations public” unless he “agreed to pay the Defendant millions of dollars to not file the lawsuit.” In an alleged follow-up letter, he “offered to refrain from publicly filing false and defamatory litigation against Plaintiff in exchange for a payment of millions of dollars,” according to the documents.

Brooks claimed that her accuser leaked her name to the public and accused her of sexual assault after she refused to accept his “requests for paid employment and medical attention.” She responded by filing a secondary lawsuit that included her accuser’s real name instead of “Jane Roe.”

Roe lawyers Reaction to Brooks’ application In his statement on October 8 We. “Garth Brooks has just revealed his true identity,” his legal team said. “He publicly named a rape victim as a vindictive and to punish. Without any legal justification, Brooks exposed her because he felt the law did not apply to him. “We will take immediate action on behalf of our client to impose the highest level of sanctions against him.”

A source who went through this difficult process said: We in October Yearwood, 60, “totally believes in Garth “And he fully believes that the allegations are unfounded,” he said, adding that his wife of 18 years “supports him 100 percent.”

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).