Country Singer Garth Brooks Hit With Rape, Sexual Assault Lawsuit by Former Hair and Makeup Artist

‘I am not the man they have painted me to be,’ Brooks said.
Country Singer Garth Brooks Hit With Rape, Sexual Assault Lawsuit by Former Hair and Makeup Artist
Garth Brooks attends a reception for the 2022 Kennedy Center honorees in Washington on Dec. 4, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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A former hair and makeup stylist for Garth Brooks has brought a lawsuit against the country singer over allegations that he sexually assaulted and raped her in 2019, after the country singer filed a preemptive lawsuit against her weeks earlier alleging attempted extortion and defamation.

According to the makeup artist’s lawsuit, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 3, the unidentified woman—who is listed only as “Jane Roe” in the filing—was initially hired in 1999 to provide makeup and hair services for the 62-year-old singer’s wife, Grammy Award-winning country star Trisha Yearwood, 60, whom he married in 2005.