Garth Brooks names his rape accuser and says he's 'victim of a shakedown'
Country music superstar Garth Brooks has named the woman who, as Jane Roe, accused him of rape in a lawsuit last week.
Country music superstar Garth Brooks has named the woman who, as Jane Roe, accused him of rape in a lawsuit last week.
In an amended complaint filed in federal court in Mississippi on Tuesday, Brooks’ lawyers publicized the accuser’s name. And in another filing, they said that Brooks “is the victim of a shakedown” and that the woman “flouted” the authority of a judge in a related case.
The woman’s attorneys, Douglas Wigdor, Jeanne Christensen and Hayley Baker, said in a statement that they “will be moving for maximum sanctions” against Brooks immediately.
“Garth Brooks just revealed his true self. Out of spite and to punish, he publicly named a rape victim,” the woman’s attorneys said. “With no legal justification, Brooks outed her because he thinks the laws don’t apply to him.” (NBC News does not identify alleged rape victims against their wishes.)
Brooks’ lawyers seemed to justify naming his accuser by quoting one of her filings from last week as saying she was willing to proceed using her name if the court believed it was necessary in denying his motion to remain anonymous. The woman’s filing said that “although Ms. Roe believes that she should be permitted to remain anonymous ... if the Court determines that the status of her name meaningfully impacts whether Plaintiff can proceed as a ‘Doe,’ Ms. Roe is willing to proceed and use her own name in this action.”
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