Garth Brooks Denies Rape Accusations; It’s A “Hush Money” Shakedown, Singer Declares

https://deadline.com/2024/10/garth-brooks-rape-accusation-1236106988/

Hours after a Jane Roe took Garth Brooks to court on claims of rape and more, the singer is calling the accusations a shakedown for “millions of dollars.”

“For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars,” Brooks says in a statement his team sent to Deadline this evening. “It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”

The ex-make-up artist and stylist to Brooks and his spouse and fellow country music superstar Trisha Yearwood has said in her filing Thursday in LA Superior Court that she was the victim of an extremely violent attack by the “Friends in Low Places” singer, as well as constant groping, lewd remarks and more for years starting in 2019. Stating that Brooks took advantage of her in no small part because he knew how much she needed work, Jane Roe took the performer to task for a lawsuit that he filed last month in Mississippi to pre-empt her going public.

“Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money,” Brooks stated tonight. “In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of—ugly acts no human should ever do to another,” he added. “We filed suit against this person nearly a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of families on both sides.”

“I want to play music tonight. I want to continue our good deeds going forward. It breaks my heart these wonderful things are in question now. I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be.”