Garth Brooks is accused of rape in a new lawsuit

A woman who says she worked as a hairdresser and makeup stylist for Garth Brooks claimed in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2019.

The woman is not using her name and calls herself Jane Roe in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

She said the attack occurred while she was traveling with Brooks from Nashville to Los Angeles, where he performed at a Grammy Awards tribute concert in October 2019.

The woman says in the lawsuit that she has worked for Brooks' wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood, since 1999 and began working for Brooks in 2017.

In a statement to CBS News Thursday night, Brooks said he filed his own lawsuit “anonymously” against the plaintiff nearly a month ago for “extortion and defamation of reputation.”

“For the past two months, I have been endlessly plagued with threats, lies and tragic stories about what my future would be if I did not write a multi-million dollar check,” Brooks said. “It was like a loaded gun was being waved in my face. Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my eyes, this means that I am admitting to behavior that I am not capable of – ugly actions that are not humane.” We filed a lawsuit against this person almost a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation. I want to continue tonight Our good deeds in the future break my heart. I trust the system, I'm not afraid of the truth and I'm not the man they made me out to be.

According to the lawsuit filed Thursday by the woman, Brooks usually traveled with an entourage, but the two were alone on his private jet and he only booked a hotel suite for both of them. The woman claims he showed up naked in the bedroom doorway of the suite and raped her.

The lawsuit states that he then proceeded as if nothing had happened and expected her to do his hair and makeup right afterward.

She claims that in early 2019, while she was at Brooks' home, he appeared naked in front of her, grabbed her hands and placed them on his genitals.

The lawsuit says Brooks filed his pre-emptive lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi last month, in which both he and the woman remain anonymous.

The woman's attorney, Douglas Wigdor, confirmed Brooks' “preemptive complaint” in his own statement to CBS News.

“We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks,” Wigdor said. “The complaint filed today shows that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood, and the rap and rock and roll industries, but also in the world of country music. We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and efforts.” Silencing our client by filing a preemptive lawsuit in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and intimidation. We encourage others who may have been victims to reach out to us as no survivor should suffer in silence.

The lawsuit did not say whether the woman reported the alleged incident to authorities. CBS News has also reached out to a representative for Yearwood for comment on the lawsuit.

In the lawsuit filed by Brooks, the plaintiff, named John Doe, says the allegations are “completely untrue” and that he first learned about them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him if he didn't give her millions of dollars.

He is asking a judge to stop the woman from “intentionally inflicting emotional distress, defamation and false invasion of privacy.”

The woman's suit also says Brooks exposed himself to her many other times, talked to her about sexual fantasies and sent her explicit text messages.

She said she was forced to continue working for Brooks due to financial difficulties, which he knew about and took advantage of.

The 62-year-old Oklahoma-born Brooks was country music's biggest star of the 1990s, with hits like “Friends in Low Places” and “The Thunder Rolls.” He brought arena rock theatrics to his concerts and a pop music sensibility to his recordings. He had great success that went beyond the typical national audience.

In 2005, he married fellow country star Yearwood.