Legal professionals for a former worker who accused Garth Brooks of raping her at a Los Angeles Lodge in 2019 have slammed the nation music singer for revealing her actual identify in a courtroom submitting.
“Garth Brooks simply revealed his true self. Out of spite and to punish, he publicly named a rape sufferer,” attorneys for the accuser, led by Douglas H. Wigdor of Wigdor LLP, mentioned in a press release on Wednesday. In an Oct. 3 lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, the accuser, recognized solely as “Jane Roe,” alleged sexual assault, battery and violations of California legal guidelines offering protections from intimidation and coercion after the 2019 lodge incident.
Along with rape, the previous make-up artist and hairstylist for Brooks alleged the singer repeatedly groped and subjected her to sexually specific feedback. In a press release Brooks denied the accusations: “For the final two months, I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future can be if I didn’t write a verify for a lot of tens of millions of {dollars},” he claimed.
However previous to the submitting of the California courtroom criticism final week, Brooks — whereas in settlement negotiations with the unnamed plaintiff — preemptively filed a lawsuit in federal courtroom in Mississippi to dam the accuser from suing. In that separate authorized motion, Brooks, who filed as a “John Doe” and described himself as a “movie star and public determine who resides in Tennessee,” claimed that he was being extorted over his refusal to provide the accuser a elevate and pay for medical insurance.
However in an amended reply to the Jane Roe lawsuit filed Tuesday in a separate Mississippi jury trial, Brooks and his authorized workforce allegedly revealed the true identify of the case’s Jane Roe. “With no authorized justification, Brooks outed her as a result of he thinks the legal guidelines don’t apply to him. On behalf of our shopper, we might be transferring for optimum sanctions in opposition to him instantly,” the assertion from Wigdor LLP continued.
The accuser’s authorized workforce intends to file a movement for sanctions to compel Brooks’ authorized workforce to revert its newest submitting to Jane Roe. Moreover Roe, Douglas Wigdor has represented different accusers who introduced lawsuits in opposition to high-profile figures within the leisure and music industries.
He represented Cassie Ventura in a lawsuit that sparked a federal investigation into Sean “Diddy” Combs, in addition to Julia Ormond in a lawsuit in opposition to Harvey Weinstein, CAA and Disney, amongst a number of others.
