Garth Brooks Alleges Rape Accuser Is Trying ‘Extortion’, Acquired ‘Demand Letter’ Forward of Filed Go well with

• In a grievance initially filed anonymously on Sept. 13 in Mississippi, Garth Brooks alleges his rape accuser was making an attempt to extort him
• He claims that he acquired a “demand letter” forward of her lawsuit filed on Thursday, Oct. 3
• In line with Brooks, the accuser threatened to “publicly file” a go well with in opposition to him with “fabricated allegations” except he agreed to pay her hundreds of thousands of {dollars}

Garth Brooks claims his rape accuser is making an attempt to extort him, citing a “demand letter” he acquired forward of her lawsuit alleging sexual assault and abuse filed Thursday.

Within the nation star’s initially nameless grievance, filed on Sept. 13 in Mississippi and obtained by PEOPLE, the nation star claimed that the accuser — a make-up artist generally known as “Jane Roe” who labored with Brooks professionally for 15 years — had encountered “monetary difficulties” upon her 2020 transfer from Tennessee to Mississippi and had requested him for help. Whereas Brooks says he “complied” with Roe’s monetary requests out of “loyalty” and “friendship,” the nation star alleges the accuser’s financial calls for then “elevated.”

When he refused to pay Roe extra and meet her “calls for for salaried employment and medical advantages, Brooks’ grievance alleges he was met with “false and outrageous allegations of sexual misconduct” in a “confidential demand letter” from Roe’s attorneys on July 17. The letter reportedly included allegations of “sexual grooming, creation of a sexually hostile work atmosphere, undesirable sexual touching and sexual assault.”

In line with Brooks’ grievance, the accuser threatened to “publicly file” a go well with in opposition to Brooks with the identical “fabricated allegations” except he agreed to pay her hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. Allegedly, the letter referenced many “superstar sexual misconduct lawsuits that includes multi-million greenback jury awards.”

On Aug. 23, Brooks allegedly acquired a follow-up letter from his accuser providing to chorus from submitting a go well with in opposition to him in change for a multi-million greenback payout, claiming that ought to he not meet her calls for, “he would face publicity of many hundreds of thousands of {dollars} ‘based mostly on [his] web value.'”

Brooks alleges that Roe is aware of how publicly submitting a go well with would affect his “well-earned popularity” and harm his profession and livelihood.

“Certainly, such information little question explains why Defendant threatened to file go well with by way of a “confidential” demand letter relatively than merely submitting go well with to redress her alleged (however unfaithful) accidents.” the grievance reads.

The “A lot Too Younger” musician is searching for a declaratory judgment that Roe’s allegations in opposition to him of sexual misconduct are false, compensatory damages, punitive damages and preliminary and everlasting injunctive reduction.

The accuser, generally known as “Jane Roe,” did in actual fact file a grievance within the Superior Court docket of the State of California – County of Los Angeles, which was obtained by PEOPLE, on Thursday, Oct. 3 accusing the nation star of sexual assault and rape.

She claims the inappropriate conduct started in 2019 when she was at Brooks’ residence for a styling appointment. At the moment, she allegedly discovered him rising from the bathe bare with an erection and compelled her to the touch his penis whereas requesting that she carry out intercourse acts, in keeping with her grievance. Later in 2019, Roe claims that she was bodily dominated and raped by the “That Summer season” artist whereas employed for an occasion.

Throughout her employment, she allegedly skilled Brooks “recurrently altering his clothes” in entrance of her and “typically purposefully” exposing his genitals and buttocks, brazenly speaking about sexual topics in entrance of her, telling her his “sexual fantasies” and receiving “sexually specific textual content messages” from him, she claims within the grievance.

Roe is requesting financial and/or compensatory damages and punitive damages/exemplary damages.

“We applaud our shopper’s braveness in shifting ahead together with her grievance in opposition to Garth Brooks,” stated Roe’s attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker (HB Advocates PLLC) in an announcement. “The grievance filed immediately demonstrates that sexual predators exist not solely in company America, Hollywood and within the rap and rock and roll industries but additionally on the earth of nation music.”

They added: “We’re assured that Brooks will likely be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our shopper by way of the submitting of a preemptive grievance in Mississippi was nothing apart from an act of desperation and tried intimidation. We encourage others who might have been victimized to contact us as no survivor ought to undergo in silence.”

On Thursday night, the nation legend denied all accusations, saying he “is just not the individual she claims him to be.”

In a assertion obtained by PEOPLE, Brooks wrote, “For the final two months, I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future could be if I didn’t write a verify for a lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”

He added, “Hush cash, regardless of how a lot or how little, remains to be hush cash. In my thoughts, meaning I’m admitting to conduct I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different. We filed go well with in opposition to this individual almost a month in the past to talk out in opposition to extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of households on either side.”

“I wish to play music tonight. I wish to proceed our good deeds going ahead. It breaks my coronary heart these great issues are in query now. I belief the system, I don’t worry the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be,” Brooks concluded.

In the event you or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.