Garth Brooks launches 'high-risk' strategy against accuser in sex assault claim: expert

Garth Brooks suing his intersexual battle accuser for defamation is simply a "double-edged sword."

The state prima is accused of raping "Jane Roe" successful 2019 during a enactment trip, according to tribunal documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Per the documents filed by "Jane Roe," 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 mates of years earlier the alleged events took place.

Brooks, 62, has denied the allegations and amended his ailment against "Jane Roe" successful an Oct. 8 filing obtained by Fox News Digital. The "Much Too Young" vocalist accused the woman, who helium named successful the filing, of attempted extortion, defamation, mendacious airy penetration of privacy, and intentional infliction of affectional distress.

His determination to writer his accuser and stock her sanction was a "bold move" that carries "significant risks," Duncan Levin, Harvey Weinstein's erstwhile defence attorney, told Fox News Digital.

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Garth Brooks countersued the pistillate accusing him of rape. (Getty Images)

"On the 1 hand, filing a defamation suit signals that Brooks is taking an assertive stance to support his reputation," said the lawyer, who is not progressive successful Brooks' case. "This tin sometimes enactment successful favour of nationalist figures who judge they are falsely accused arsenic it forces the accuser to supply grounds supporting their claims. However, naming the accuser could backfire, peculiarly if the accusation is credible oregon if the accuser gains sympathy from the public. It could besides beryllium seen arsenic an effort to intimidate oregon dissuade different imaginable accusers from coming forward, which would gully criticism. Legally, Brooks volition request to beryllium that the allegations are mendacious and person caused him reputational damage, a precocious barroom successful defamation cases."

Lawyers for Brooks' accuser said successful a connection to Fox News Digital, "Garth Brooks conscionable revealed his existent self. Out of spite and to punish, helium publically named a rape victim. With nary ineligible justification, Brooks outed her due to the fact that helium thinks the laws don’t use to him. On behalf of our client, we volition beryllium moving for maximum sanctions against him immediately."

The bulk of celebrities take not to sanction the accuser successful an effort to debar nationalist backlash, according to the transgression defence attorney.

"It's imaginable that Brooks oregon his ineligible squad feels assured successful their defense, which mightiness explicate wherefore they are consenting to beryllium truthful assertive successful their approach," Levin explained. "Filing a countersuit suggests that they judge they tin not lone decision the accusations but besides show that they are baseless. Still, this is simply a double-edged sword. If Brooks doesn't person a beardown defense, it could look retaliatory and harm his estimation adjacent further."

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood person been joined since 2005. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

"In sum, this is simply a high-risk, high-reward strategy," the lawyer continued. "If Brooks wins the defamation suit, it could wide his sanction successful the tribunal of nationalist opinion. But if the countersuit backfires, it could substance antagonistic nationalist cognition and exposure him to greater ineligible jeopardy."

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Brooks primitively filed the suit attempting to artifact the constitution artist's impending suit successful September, according to a ailment obtained by Fox News Digital. In the tribunal papers filed nether "John Doe," Brooks denied the woman's claims.

The pistillate contacted Brooks done an lawyer with a request missive successful July accusing the "Friends successful Low Places" vocalist of "sexual ‘grooming,’ instauration of a sexually hostile enactment environment, unwanted intersexual touching, and intersexual assault," according to the tribunal documents. In August, Brooks allegedly received a missive from the victim's lawyer noting a suit could beryllium avoided successful speech for a "multi-million dollar payment."

Garth Brooks' erstwhile constitution creator accused the state vocalist of rape successful a suit filed successful Los Angeles. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

"Filing a countersuit suggests that they judge they tin not lone decision the accusations but besides show that they are baseless. Still, this is simply a double-edged sword. If Brooks doesn't person a beardown defense, it could look retaliatory and harm his estimation adjacent further."

Although Brooks' determination to writer archetypal puts the vocalist successful a "good position," ineligible adept Jeff Lewis noted that the instrumentalist inactive bears a "high burden."

"Garth Brooks is evidently good represented," Lewis, a defamation attorney, told Fox News Digital. "By filing a suit first, helium is successful a bully presumption to inquire for the close to beryllium the plaintiff. This would let him to contiguous his lawsuit to the assemblage astatine the opening of the trial, making the alleged intersexual battle unfortunate to look to beryllium bringing her claims successful retaliation. Also, by filing successful Mississippi helium tin debar laws successful California that marque it harder for a defamation assertion to succeed. This ‘sue first’ strategy is precise antithetic and shows that Brooks is signaling helium is prepared to instrumentality this substance each the mode to trial. I besides fishy that Brooks' lawyers volition record a question successful Los Angeles to person the Los Angeles assertion transferred and heard successful Mississippi unneurotic with the defamation lawsuit."

"As a nationalist figure, Brooks volition beryllium required to beryllium successful tribunal that not lone had his hairdresser lied astir him, but she besides did truthful with existent malice, meaning she knew what she was saying was false," helium added. "This is simply a precise precocious load that immoderate personage plaintiffs person occupation meeting."

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Garth Brooks claimed the intersexual battle suit was an extortion attempt. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for NAMM)

According to the suit filed by "Jane Roe," 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" said lone 1 country was booked for the 2 of them to share. After arriving, Brooks allegedly raped the constitution artist.

Before the alleged rape, the constitution creator said Brooks walked retired of the ablution astatine his location successful 2019. She "looked up successful fearfulness arsenic Brooks walked retired of the shower, naked, with an erection and pointing his penis" astatine her. The instrumentalist allegedly told "Jane Roe" helium "fantasized astir this moment" and requested she execute oral enactment connected him.

In the filing, "Jane Roe" included a screenshot of a sexually explicit substance speech that allegedly occurred betwixt her and Brooks.

The constitution creator claimed Brooks took her telephone successful 2020 and "deleted astir of the substance messages" sent to "Jane Roe." However, immoderate texts remained, including 1 speech with a redacted opening but ended: "And that immense instrumentality you carry! Roo-sevelt!!"

"I’ll instrumentality that nickname," Brooks allegedly responded earlier adding, "Thank you. I emotion you."

A substance connection allegedly betwixt Brooks and the constitution creator was included successful the lawsuit. (Superior Court of the State of California)

The state euphony prima denied the allegations. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Text messages and audio recordings tin "strengthen" a intersexual battle lawsuit erstwhile what is being alleged happened down closed doors, erstwhile national authoritative Neama Rahmani told Fox News Digital.

"If the messages and recordings are accurate, it does look that immoderate benignant of intersexual enactment took spot betwixt Brooks and Roe," said Rahmani, the laminitis of West Coast Trial Lawyers. "The question past is: Was it consensual oregon not? That’s what separates rape from an affair."

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While substance messages tin fortify a civilian case, they indispensable beryllium authenticated, Angela Reddock-Wright, employment and Title IX lawyer based successful Los Angeles, told Fox News Digital.

"The champion mode to get substance messages admitted successful a civilian proceeding is to subpoena the substance messages from the cellphone supplier institution wherever the substance messages are stored and past person the messages authenticated by an authorized typical from the cellphone institution and/or by a forensics adept that specializes successful cellphone information retrieval," the lawyer said.

"Brooks went connected the discourtesy and sued Roe for extortion," Rahmani added. "That helped him get up of the antagonistic property and framework Roe arsenic a shakedown artist. But if Roe has the receipts and different grounds to beryllium the intersexual assault, determination is nary magnitude of PR that tin assistance Brooks successful the courtroom oregon the tribunal of nationalist opinion."

The erstwhile constitution creator worked for some Garth Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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