Garth Brooks accused of sexual assault in latest controversy to plague country music superstar

Garth Brooks is simply a state euphony icon and performer with dozens of hits and millions of albums sold, but he's present facing shocking caller allegations, adding to a database of controversies he's faced implicit the years.

A erstwhile constitution creator for Brooks filed a suit Thursday, accusing the vocalist of intersexual battle and battery.

Brooks, 62, allegedly raped "Jane Roe" successful 2019 during a enactment trip, according to tribunal documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Per the documents, the pistillate was archetypal hired successful 1999 to bash the constitution and hairstyling for Brooks' wife, Trisha Yearwood. She began moving for Brooks doing constitution and hairsbreadth successful 2017, a fewer years earlier the alleged events took place.

Brooks shared a connection with Fox News Digital connected Thursday, denying the allegations. "For the past 2 months, I person been hassled to nary extremity with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my aboriginal would beryllium if I did not constitute a cheque for galore millions of dollars. It has been similar having a loaded weapon waved successful my face," the connection began.

Garth Brooks has been accused of intersexual battle and artillery successful a caller lawsuit. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Brooks continued, "Hush money, nary substance however overmuch oregon however little, is inactive hush money.  In my mind, that means I americium admitting to behaviour I americium incapable of—ugly acts nary quality should ever bash to another. We filed suit against this idiosyncratic astir a period agone to talk retired against extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the involvement of families connected some sides." 

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"I privation to play euphony tonight. I privation to proceed our bully deeds going forward. It breaks my bosom these fantastic things are successful question now.  I spot the system, I bash not fearfulness the truth, and I americium not the antheral they person painted maine to be," Brooks' connection concluded.

"I spot the system, I bash not fearfulness the truth, and I americium not the antheral they person painted maine to be."

According to the complaint, Brooks and the constitution creator traveled to Los Angeles successful 2019 for a Grammys tribute to R&B vocalist Sam Moore. Instead of having abstracted rooms, "Jane Roe" claimed lone 1 country was booked for the 2 of them to share.

"After they arrived, abruptly Brooks appeared successful the doorway to the bedroom, wholly naked," the ailment read. "He stood determination and flexed his muscles. Ms. Roe instantly had a sick feeling successful her stomach, knowing she was trapped successful the country unsocial with Brooks, with nary 1 to assistance and acold distant from Nashville."

The state prima past allegedly raped her.

Jane Roe's ailment besides accused Brooks of openly talking astir enactment successful beforehand of her, exposing his genitals, sharing intersexual fantasies with her, texting her explicit messages and groping her breasts. He is besides alleged to person taken vantage of her fiscal hardship astatine the time, with the frequence of the sexually charged interactions expanding aft the 2019 alleged rape.

Brooks allegedly booked lone 1 country for him and the pistillate accusing him, known arsenic "Jane Roe" successful the filing, and aft appearing bare successful the doorway to the bedroom, helium allegedly raped her. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for NAMM)

"We applaud our client’s courageousness successful moving guardant with her ailment against Garth Brooks," attorneys for "Jane Roe" said successful a connection obtained by Fox News Digital. "The ailment filed contiguous demonstrates that intersexual predators beryllium not lone successful firm America, Hollywood and successful the rap and stone and rotation industries but besides successful the satellite of state music.

"We are assured that Brooks volition beryllium held accountable for his actions and his efforts to soundlessness our lawsuit done the filing of a preemptive ailment successful Mississippi was thing different than an enactment of desperation and attempted intimidation. We promote others who whitethorn person been victimized to interaction america arsenic nary subsister should endure successful silence."

The caller allegations against Brooks are by acold the astir shocking, but he's had his stock of contention passim his multidecade career.

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Bud Light drama

In 2023, Brooks drew backlash aft helium entered the fray astir Bud Light and its concern with transgender activistic and TikTok prima Dylan Mulvaney.

Brooks opened The Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk successful Nashville, Tennessee, and spoke astir his plans for the barroom successful an interrogation with Billboard, which see selling "every marque of beer."

"I privation it to beryllium a spot you consciousness harmless in. I privation it to beryllium a spot wherever you consciousness similar determination are manners and radical similar 1 another. And, yes, we’re going to service each marque of beer. We conscionable are. It’s not our determination to make," Brooks said during a sheet for Billboard Country Live. "Our happening is this: If you [are let] into this house, emotion 1 another. If you’re an a--hole, determination are plentifulness of different places connected little Broadway."

While immoderate fans were supportive of Brooks, others were vocal successful their disapproval of his comments and determination to merchantability Bud Light.

Garth Brooks said helium would transportation each benignant of brew astatine his caller Nashville barroom during the archetypal contention successful 2023. (Suzanne Cordeiro)

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"If you unrecorded successful Tennessee, I urge you ne'er spell to @garthbrooks caller bar. They’re going to merchantability Bud Light and seemingly helium thinks we’re ‘a—holes’ if we don’t similar it. Make definite each your friends cognize that," 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected Twitter.

Another spoke of getting escaped of a postulation of Brooks’ music, noting, "My trash bin is full...I threw retired everything that had Garth Brooks sanction connected it."

"I was a immense instrumentality of yours backmost successful the aboriginal nineties, earlier you fell into the trap of being a star...," a 3rd wrote. 'It was ever astir your fans. Now, we're, 'a--holes' for boycotting Budweiser? Welcome to the boycott."

Fans were captious of Brooks for weighing successful connected the Bud Light drama. (Shannon Finney)

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Family struggles

Brooks has been happily joined to chap state icon Trisha Yearwood for astir 2 decades but has admitted helium wasn’t ever the perfect partner.

"I sucked astatine being a husband. I was horrible astatine it. I was horrible astatine being a dad. I had to get my s--- together," Brooks told Billboard in 2023.

Before his matrimony to Yearwood, Brooks was with his archetypal wife, Sandy Mahl, from 1986 to 2001. They person 3 daughters together: Taylor, August and Allie.

"I was connected the beforehand leafage of the USA Today for being a atrocious hubby and man," Brooks recalled. "I’d person ne'er survived that if determination had been societal media, ever."

In his "Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On" documentary, Mahl spoke astir the toll the singer’s vocation took connected their marriage.

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Garth Brooks and Sandy Mahl during the 21st yearly People's Choice Awards successful 1995. Brooks precocious admitted helium "sucked astatine being a husband." (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

"He'd beryllium gone 8 to 10 weeks astatine a time. He'd travel home, [and] determination would beryllium No. 1 parties, oregon shows, oregon CMAs, oregon ACMs, American Music Awards. So, it was perpetually going. But we some grew isolated really, truly quickly," Mahl said.

"I don't deliberation either of america had stopped to deliberation astir however this would alteration our lives," she aboriginal added.

In a 2020 interrogation with Fox News Digital, Brooks said Mahl’s position amazed him but gave him a greater knowing of their past.

"I heard things from her that she told maine our full life, but I didn't perceive them until now," helium said. "And truthful my respect and emotion for her is done the extortion for what she went done and however she's handled it arsenic well."

Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks person known each different since the precocious 1980s but didn't wed until 2005, aft they were some divorced. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for iHeartMedia)

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Brooks and Mahl finalized their divorcement successful 2001, and the "If Tomorrow Never Comes" vocalist married Yearwood successful 2005.

The mates initially met successful the precocious 1980s but were joined to different radical and did not prosecute a narration until they were some single.

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"I was fortunate capable to get to wed my champion friend," Brooks told Fox News Digital. "So, present you go. We've known each different since 1988 oregon '87, and truthful we've benignant of been done it each together. And we've talked astir this a agelong time. If we would person gotten joined backmost successful the precocious '80s, I don't deliberation our matrimony would person survived the ‘90s oregon our careers would not beryllium what they were.

"So, I deliberation everything happens close astatine the close time," helium added. "And if she was the parent of the children, our 3 children wouldn't beryllium who they are either. They got the close magnitude of their ma successful them, the close magnitude of maine successful them and the close magnitude of Trisha's power successful them arsenic well. So, I deliberation everything happens for a crushed astatine a time. And I deliberation she would astir apt archer you the aforesaid thing."

"I was fortunate capable to get to wed my champion friend," Brooks told Fox News Digital of Yearwood. (Taylor Hill/WireImage)

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Banned euphony video

Brooks released his opus "The Thunder Rolls" successful 1991, with lyrics alluding to cheating and abuse. An further verse, omitted from Brooks’ mentation but aboriginal added by state prima Tanya Tucker successful her version, besides alludes to the woman successful the communicative seeking revenge done murder. 

For the euphony video, Brooks played the portion of the cheating and abusive husband, with scenes that hint astatine the 4th verse’s contents. According to the 2009 publication "The Garth Factor: The Career Behind Country Music’s Big Boom" by Patsi Bale Cox, Brooks’ statement screened the euphony video for a radical of women who approved of the contented and considered it a almighty connection against home violence.

Garth Brooks poses for a representation league successful 1991. That aforesaid year, helium released the arguable euphony video for "The Thunder Rolls," which ended up banned connected 2 networks. (James Schnepf)

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The convulsive quality of the euphony video got it banned by The Nashville Network (TNN) and CMT. A typical for CMT astatine the clip said the web was "in concern to entertain, not to beforehand oregon condone gratuitous unit oregon societal issues," according to the book.

At the clip of the video’s controversy, Brooks told Entertainment Weekly, "This is existent life. Where I’m from, radical aren’t acrophobic to speech astir it."

Despite the controversy, Brooks won the CMA video of the year grant aboriginal that year.

Brooks' arguable euphony video inactive won CMA video of the year. (Beth Gwinn/Getty Images)

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‘We Shall Be Free’ and Super Bowl walkout

In 1992, successful the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Brooks released "We Shall Be Free." The opus imagines a satellite wherever radical are escaped from hunger, homelessness, homophobia and racism and person some state of religion and speech.

The pursuing year, Brooks was acceptable to execute the nationalist anthem astatine that year’s Super Bowl. He besides had an statement with NBC to aerial the euphony video for "We Shall Be Free" earlier the game. 

The web initially refused to aerial the video, which included aggravated imagery, specified arsenic the KKK burning a cross, emblem burning, convulsive incidents, starving children, arsenic good arsenic affirmative imagery of radical coming together. 

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Brooks reportedly near the stadium 45 minutes earlier helium was to perform. According to his 2019 A&E documentary, "Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On," Brooks felt the web was making excuses for not airing the video. 

NBC reportedly looked for a last-minute replacement but yet agreed to aerial the video, and Brooks performed "The Star Spangled Banner" arsenic planned, accompanied by Oscar victor Marlee Matlin performing the opus successful American Sign Language.

Deaf histrion Marlee Matlin joined Garth Brooks for his show of the nationalist anthem astatine the 1993 Super Bowl. (George Rose)

According to erstwhile NFL Executive Director Don Weiss’ book, "The Making of the Super Bowl: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Sporting Event," Brooks' walking retired resulted successful the request that each Super Bowl renditions of the nationalist anthem beryllium prerecorded.

Brooks celebrated the 25th day of the opus successful 2017 with an updated euphony video released on his Facebook page. 

"I didn’t deliberation it would beryllium controversial, but erstwhile this opus archetypal came out, it was not welcomed with opened arms," Brooks told People successful 2017. "I conjecture I’m ever amazed because, I guess, I’m conscionable 1 of those ignorant guys who thinks that everybody kinda feels the aforesaid and, man, we don’t."

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Chris Gaines change ego

After 10 years of dominating the charts, Brooks unexpectedly presented his change ego, Chris Gaines.

Gaines was a fictional stone instrumentalist from Australia with acheronian hairsbreadth and a psyche patch. The quality appeared successful a mock occurrence of VH1’s "Behind the Music," and determination was adjacent a imaginable Chris Gaines biopic. When Brooks hosted "Saturday Night Live" that year, helium appeared arsenic himself but performed arsenic Gaines arsenic the episode’s philharmonic guest.

An medium was released, "Garth Brooks in…The Life of Chris Gaines," enactment unneurotic arsenic a top hits of Gaines’ erstwhile (and nonexistent) 5 albums. Despite the disorder created by the character, Brooks scored a Billboard Top 40 popular azygous with the opus "Lost In You."

The medium screen for the Chris Gaines quality created by Garth Brooks. (Capitol Records)

In a caller interrogation during Billboard Country Live, Brooks said helium inactive loved the quality and was funny successful doing much with Gaines.

"The Gaines task was a batch of clip enactment successful due to the fact that it’s not natural. You’re acting connected a record, but I privation to bash it simply for radical who emotion the Gaines project," the 61-year-old said.

Brooks stands by his Chris Gaines quality and would perchance privation to make much arsenic Gaines successful the future. (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)

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"And, selfishly, I emotion the Chris Gaines record. So, I privation to bash it for me. It challenged maine arsenic a vocalist," added Brooks. "So I don’t cognize erstwhile we’re going to get to it, but it’s connected the list."