Garth Brooks, country singer considered the king of the genre in the United States, is accused of rape by his former hair and makeup artist, according to a complaint filed Thursday in a Los Angeles court.
The facts date back to 2019 according to this woman, whose anonymity is preserved in the document. She accuses him of having raped her in a hotel room in the Californian city.
Traumatized, this hairdresser explains having thought about committing suicide.
She is represented by Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer famous in the United States for his involvement in numerous cases of sexual violence revealed by the #metoo movement.
“The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in American businesses, in Hollywood and in the rap and rock’n’roll industries, but also in the world of country music,” insisted the lawyer in a press release.
According to the complaint, Garth Brooks filed a preemptive complaint in Mississippi in September, where he claims to be the victim of defamation and attempted extortion, claiming that this woman demanded several million dollars from him to avoid prosecution.
The 62-year-old singer is a country legend, who exploded in the 90s. In 2015, he overtook Elvis Presley in the ranking of solo singers who sold the most albums in the United States.