Garth Brooks’ wife Trisha Yearwood and three daughters ‘believe him’ as he denies rape allegations

Garth Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood, and his three adult daughters believe him when he denies sexual assault allegations against him, she claims.

The 62-year-old country music star was accused of raping a makeup artist in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2019, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in California.

Brooks vehemently denies the claims, which he described as an attempt to extort “multiple millions of dollars” in “hush money” from him.

A source who recently worked with the singer confirmed that Brooks’ wife and children believe he is innocent.

“Garth is known for being a very nice and kind man, so these allegations are very shocking. “Everyone around him, including Trisha and his daughters, believes he is telling the truth,” an insider told Us Weekly.

“Many around him think it’s out of character for him and that he would never do it. Everyone around him is shocked,” the source continued.

He shares his three adult daughters – Taylor, 32, Aug. 30, and Allie, 28 – with his first wife Sandy Mahl, whom he married in 1986 and separated in 2000.

Brooks, who first met Yearwood in 1988, began dating her the year he split from Mahl, and eventually married her in 2005.

Now, amid the claims against him, a source who has worked with him said: “Garth only cares about his family and fans. He is a family man and very down to earth.

Last month, Brooks filed a preemptive sexual assault lawsuit against his accuser, alleging he was the victim, DailyMail.com revealed.

According to his lawsuit, he claimed she was a blackmailer who threatened to ruin his reputation unless he received a multimillion-dollar payout.

Brooks’ lawsuit, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, was filed anonymously in federal court in Mississippi last month after receiving a “demand letter” from her attorney.

He was already aware that his former makeup artist, known only as Jane Roe, was preparing to file her own civil lawsuit in California.

Brooks’ complaint presents a starkly different account of the events described in Thursday’s filing, in which he was accused of assault, sexual battery and gender-based violence.

Roe insisted she was exposed to a sexually hostile work environment and was ultimately raped by Brooks during a 2019 business trip to Los Angeles.

However, the singer denied any such actions and claimed that her complaint was about extortion of money due to financial difficulties that she wanted him to solve.

Far from escaping an abusive employer, Brooks accused Roe of suing him only after he refused to provide her with a paid job with medical benefits.

According to Brooks, she did so after numerous threats to file a lawsuit unless he paid her “millions of dollars not to file the lawsuit.”

DailyMail.com determined that Brooks was behind the Mississippi lawsuit after Roe’s lawyers revealed that the megastar had filed a preemptive lawsuit in that state.

Roe worked for Brooks as an independent contractor for approximately 15 years before moving from Tennessee to Mississippi in May 2020.

Brooks, who goes by the pseudonym “John Doe,” stated: “Shortly after moving to Mississippi, the defendant apparently encountered financial difficulties and asked the plaintiff for financial assistance.

“The plaintiff complied with the order out of loyalty, friendship and a desire to improve the defendant’s condition.

“But defendant’s demands for financial assistance only increased, and ultimately defendant turned to plaintiff for work wages and medical benefits.”

Brooks refused, and he claimed “in response, she made false and outrageous allegations of sexual misconduct that she claims occurred many years ago.”

On July 17, a lawyer acting on Roe’s behalf sent Brooks a “demand letter alleging a litany of inappropriate sexual conduct… ranging from allegations of ‘sexual grooming,’ creating a sexually hostile work environment, unwanted sexual touching, and sexual assault “.

In her lawsuit, Brooks claimed Roe also accused her of believing he “planned to hire someone to murder her.” This allegation was not included in the Roe lawsuit.

Brooks claimed that the demand letter was the first time he had heard any of the allegations against him.

He said the letter threatened to “publicly file” a civil complaint – a draft of which is attached – if he “did not agree to pay … millions of dollars.”

“The letter referenced various celebrity sexual misconduct lawsuits that resulted in multimillion-dollar jury awards,” he said in his lawsuit.

In a follow-up letter dated August 23, 2024, Roe again “offered to refrain from publicly filing a false and defamatory lawsuit… in exchange for a multi-million dollar payment.”

Brooks stated, “She threatened that if (Brooks) did not comply with this demand, she would subject him to multimillion-dollar losses “based on (his) net worth.”

As the top solo artist in the history of the Recording Industry Association of America, selling nearly 150 million albums, the Friends in Low Places singer is worth an estimated $300-350 million.

At times he was the highest-paid star in the world. From June 2017 to June 2018, he earned $45 million. During the same period in 2019 – when Roe accuses him of raping her – he made $25 million.

Country singer Trisha Yearwood, Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood’s fortune brings their net worth to approximately $400 million.

Yearwood and Brooks, 60, have been married for 21 years and have homes in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as Nashville, Tennessee, and Malibu, California.

Brooks broke his silence Thursday evening, hours after issuing a strong legal denial of rape and battery allegations made by a makeup artist he has known for more than 20 years.

Sharing an Instagram update after performing at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Brooks wrote to fans that he “really needed this.”

Uploading a photo of the huge crowd that turned out to cheer him on, he wrote: “If there was ever a night I really needed it, TODAY was the night! Thank you for my life!!!!love you g.’

For its part, Roe’s legal team accused Brooks of trying to “fraud” the legal system with last month’s pre-emptive strike.

“With Ms. Roe’s draft California sexual assault complaint in hand, Mr. Doe ran to the courthouse in an apparent attempt to further control and abuse his sexual assault victim,” their response to his federal lawsuit, viewed by DailyMail. com , Read.

They claimed he did so by feigning interest in settlement talks to avoid a lawsuit they had not yet filed.

In that lawsuit, new details of which can be revealed by DailyMail.com, Roe repeatedly raised allegations of assault and sexual misconduct at the hands of Brooks.

She claimed he “took advantage” of the financial difficulties she shared with him in 2019 and “took the opportunity to show (her) a side of Brooks that he hides from the public.”

According to Roe, the site “believes it has the right to sexual gratification when it wants it, and using a female employee for that purpose is a fair practice.”

Roe accused Brooks of once emerging naked from the shower “with an erection” that he forced her to touch, grabbing her hand and telling her he was fantasizing about that moment and wanted her to perform a sex act on him.

She claimed the situation escalated in May 2019 when he asked her to go to Los Angeles with him to pay tribute to Grammy Sam Moore. She claimed he had booked a one-bedroom hotel suite and refused to provide her with her own room.

In her apartment, she claimed that, at just under 5 feet 10 inches tall and 150 pounds, she had been brutally raped by Brooks, who, at 6 feet tall and almost 300 pounds, could have easily physically dominated her.

She also claimed that he sent her vulgar text messages and encouraged her to have sex with him; that he bragged that he had “fucked multiple women in every corner of the hotel room”, “white, black, brown or whatever… on every surface”.

Brooks repeatedly talked about having a threesome with Yearwood and Roe, repeatedly exposed himself to her and groped her body, including her breasts, the lawsuit said.

Surprisingly, Roe believed that Yearwood “overheard (his threesome suggestion) on at least one occasion” and that his wife was present during one particularly raunchy conversation during which Brooks talked about inventing a shampoo bottle that could serve as a vibrator.

Roe claimed that the conversation made her feel so uncomfortable that she refused to join in, which angered Brooks so much that “in frustration, he punched the kitchen counter so hard that the objects on the counter moved, so he leaned over and said in a threatening tone.” manner towards Mrs. Roe.”