Garth Brooks Names Rape Accuser in New Filing amid Sexual Assault Lawsuit He Calls 'Extortion' Attempt

Mar. 15, 2025

Garth Brooks in Nashville in May 2023.Photo:Jason Kempin/Getty

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Garth Brookshas named the woman who recentlyaccused him of sexual assault and battery.

Garth Brooks in Washington DC in March 2020.Shannon Finney/Getty Images

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“Garth Brooks just revealed his true self,” they wrote. “With no legal justification, Brooks outed her because he thinks the laws don’t apply to him. On behalf of our client, we will be moving for maximum sanctions against him immediately.”

Brooks' other complaint, filed under the pseudonym “John Doe,” noted that he would “re-file his complaint without pseudonyms” against “Jane Doe,” since the woman’s attorneys “disclosed” his identity to the press.

Garth Brooks performs in Washington DC in March 2024.Shannon Finney/Getty

Shannon Finney/Getty

The “Friends in Low Places” singer alleged Roe “devised a malicious scheme to blackmail” him into paying her “millions of dollars” following his rejection of “her request for salaried employment and medical benefits.” He also claimed that she “threatened” to “publicly disclose false claims” about him that would “imperil his business and reputation.”

In his court filing, Brooks further claimed the woman worked as an “independent contractor” for him for 15 years before relocating from Tennessee to Mississippi. After her move, he said,she “encountered financial difficulties” and asked him for assistance, which he claims he offered.

Eventually, Roe asked for a salary and benefits, per the documents, and Brooks denied her request. Then, he claims that she “responded with false and outrageous allegations of sexual misconduct she claims occurred years ago.”

Garth Brooks in Frisco in May 2023.Theo Wargo/Getty

Theo Wargo/Getty

Her allegations, including sexual “grooming,” “unwanted sexual touching and sexual assault” among others, wereallegedly submitted in a “demand letter”to Brooks and “others” on his team on July 17, 2024.

The complaint alleges the “demand letter” marked Brooks' “first time” learning of the accusations, “none of which has any basis in fact.”

Then, he claimed, Roe “threatened” to “publicly file” the letter — which he called “false and defamatory” — in a “draft civil complaint” against him unless he agreed to pay her “millions of dollars.” In the filing, he said she threatened that if he “failed to meet this demand” for payment, he “would face exposure of many millions of dollars ‘based on [his] net worth.’”

Brooks requested a trial as well as a “declaratory judgment” from the court stating her allegations “against him of sexual misconduct are untrue,” plus compensatory and punitive damages, along with attorney’s fees.

Garth Brooks in Hollywood in April 2022.Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

Previously, the woman filed a complaint in California state court on Oct. 3 and alleged Brooks exposed his genitals to her, spoke openly about sex and related fantasies, changed clothes in her presence and sent sexually explicit text messages to her in 2019.

He publicly denied the allegations in a statement to PEOPLE: “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. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”

“Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of—ugly acts no human should ever do to another," Brooks' statement continued. “Wefiled suit against this person nearly a month agoto 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 [that] 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,” he concluded.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.

source: people.com