A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks claimed in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019. The woman does not use her name and goes by Jane Roe in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. Brooks denied the accusations in a statement and acknowledged he tried to get a court to stop Thursday's lawsuit from being filed. Roe says in the lawsuit she had worked for Brooks' wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood, since 1999, and started working for Brooks in 2017. She said the assault occurred when she traveled in October 2019 from Nashville to Los Angeles with Brooks, who normally traveled with an entourage. The two were alone on his private jet and he booked one hotel suite for them, the lawsuit says. Roe claims that in the suite, he appeared naked in the doorway to the bedroom and raped her. The suit says Brooks then proceeded as though nothing happened and expected her to do his hair and makeup immediately after. Roe's lawsuit claims that earlier in 2019, when she was at Brooks' home, he appeared naked in front of her, grabbed her hands, and put them on his genitals. Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi last month, in which he and the woman are anonymous. In court filings in that case, the plaintiff, going by John Doe, says the claims are "wholly untrue," and he first learned of them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him unless he gave her millions of dollars. He asked a judge to stop the woman from "intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy." Roe's suit also says Brooks exposed himself to her many other times and talked about sexual fantasies with her and sent her explicit text messages. She said she was forced to keep working for Brooks because of financial hardship, which he knew about and took advantage of. An email to the woman's attorney asking whether she reported her accusations to police was not immediately answered. There was no immediate response to a message to a Yearwood representative seeking comment on the lawsuit.
Eminem announced his daughter Hailie Jade Mathers is pregnant through a music video that is a tribute to their relationship. Home videos and photos of the duo dating back to 1999 are underscored by the song "Temporary" in the video released Thursday. In one clip of a recent home video, his daughter hands Eminem a jersey with the name "Grandpa" emblazoned on the back. She also hands him ultrasound photos and he looks shocked. The social media influencer confirmed the news of her pregnancy hours after the video was released Thursday, with an Instagram post. "Mom & dad est. 2025," she captioned the post. Representatives for Eminem, 51, did not immediately return requests for comment.