Thursday, October 3, a woman, who requested anonymity, filed a complaint of rape against the sixty-year-old, a figure in this very popular musical genre in the United States. The latter filed a preventive complaint in September.
After the P. Diddy affair which is currently shaking up US rap, it is the turn of American country to confront the #MeToo wave. Country singer Garth Brooks, perceived as the king of the genre in the United States, is accused of rape by his former hairdresser and makeup artist for facts dated 2019. This woman, whose anonymity is preserved, filed a complaint on Thursday 3 October in a Los Angeles court, accusing the singer of having raped her in a hotel room in the Californian city. Traumatized, this hairdresser explains having thought about committing suicide.
She is today represented by Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer famous in the United States for handling numerous cases of sexual violence. Already in 2011, he was one of the two lawyers of Nafissatou Diallo, who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of having raped her in the room of a Sofitel in New York. “The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, 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 filing, Garth Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit in Mississippi in September, where he claims he is the victim of defamation and attempted extortion. He also accuses this woman of having demanded several million dollars from him to avoid prosecution.
The 62-year-old singer is a country legend, whose career has enjoyed a meteoric trajectory since the end of the 1980s. In 2015, he overtook Elvis Presley in the ranking of solo singers who sold the most albums in the United States. United.
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