Garth Brooks’ bunker-style Nashville mansion has been revealed as the musician fights back against a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and battery.
Brooks, 62, has branded himself himself the ‘victim of a shakedown’ after a makeup artist who formerly worked for him as an independent contractor claimed he raped her in a complaint filed in filed in a state court in California last week.
He has denied all the allegations.
Brooks has been dividing his time between his lavish four-bed five-bath Nashville mansion and Las Vegas where he continues to perform on his Plus ONE residency amid the lawsuit,
The musician bought the land on which this mansion was built for $444,000 in 2001.
Garth Brooks’ bunker-style Nashville mansion has been revealed as the musician fights back against a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and battery; seen in May 2023
Brooks has been dividing his time between his lavish four-bed five-bath Nashville mansion and Las Vegas where he continues to perform on his Plus ONE residency amid the lawsuit
The secluded estate also includes a large barn, swimming pool and guest house and is set on a vast expanse of land far from any neighbours.
Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood sold another stunning Tennessee home at a steep discount the day before the he was accused of rape.
They offloaded their stunning Brentwood mansion for $3.34million after dropping the price several times from its initial 2023 listing price of $4.5million, Realtor.com reported.
The home, which Yearwood bought in 2000, sits on 4.42 acres of private land and is guarded by two gated entrances and nine surveillance cameras, according to the Zillow listing.
Brooks and Yearwood’s home also appeared in more than 100 episodes of her cooking show Trisha’s Southern Kitchen.
In the lawsuit, the anonymous woman accused Brooks of fostering a sexually hostile workplace prior to the alleged rape in 2019.
She claimed he ‘took advantage’ of financial difficulties she was suffering around 2019 by calling on her for sexual favors.
Brooks, 62, has branded himself himself the ‘victim of a shakedown’ after a makeup artist who formerly worked for him as an independent contractor claimed he raped her in a complaint filed in filed in a state court in California last week. He has denied all the allegations – pictured 2019
The musician bought the land on which this mansion was built for $444,000 in 2001
The secluded estate also includes a large barn, swimming pool and guest house and is set on a vast expanse of land far from any neighbours
The home is set in a scenic location and is far from prying eyes
The expansive home is perfect for an A-lister
Roe accused Brooks of emerging naked from a shower on one occasion ‘with an erection’ that he forced her to touch. He allegedly grabbed her hand and told her that he fantasized about the moment and wanted her to perform a sex act on him.
She claimed things escalated in May 2019, when he asked her to travel with him to Los Angeles for a Grammy Awards tribute to Sam Moore. She claimed he booked a one-bedroom hotel suite and refused to provide her with her own room.
She accused Brooks of brutally raping her during the trip, before going on to send her explicit text messages and encouraging her to sext him in return.
The woman also claimed he boasted that he had ‘f***ed multiple women in every corner of a hotel room,’ ‘white, Black, brown, or whatever… on every surface.’
She said Brooks repeatedly spoke of the potential of having a threesome with Yearwood and Roe, and he allegedly exposed himself to her and groped her body including her breasts multiple times, the lawsuit claimed.
Strikingly, Roe believed Yearwood ‘overheard [his suggestion of a threesome] on at least one occasion,’ and she said his wife was present for one particularly lewd conversation in which Brooks spoke of inventing a shampoo bottle that would double as a dildo.
Roe claimed the conversation made her so uncomfortable that she would not join in, which angered Brooks so much he allegedly ‘slammed his fists down on the kitchen counter in frustration so hard that items on the counter moved and he leaned in and spoke in a threatening manner to Ms. Roe.’
Roe’s legal team accused Brooks of pretending to entertain talks of a settlement, even as he used her sexual assault complaint to file his own preemptive lawsuit.
Roe accused Brooks of taking her on a business trip, forcing the two to stay in a single room, then raping her, which he has repeatedly denied; pictured in March in Washington, DC
Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood sold another stunning Tennessee home at a steep discount the day before the he was accused of rape
Included in her filing was a screenshot of a text conversation allegedly showing ‘sexually explicit’ messages between herself and Brooks.
‘And that huge stick you carry! Roo-sevelt!!’ the plaintiff allegedly wrote in a redacted text featured in the lawsuit, per In Touch.
‘I’ll take that nick-name. Thank you. I love you,’ Brooks allegedly replied, with laughing and heart emojis.
According to the court docs, Brooks allegedly ‘used more than one cell phone, and sometimes would use different “names” and email addresses to communicate with Ms. Roe. He would tell Ms. Roe ahead of time that it would be him sending her communications, under a different name.’
In the plaintiff’s filing she also claims Brooks allegedly ‘encouraged Ms. Roe to speak in a sexualized manner to him’ like in the text screenshot.
‘[Garth] sent [Jane] sexually explicit text messages and pressured her to engage in sexting with him,’ the lawsuit read.
Additionally, she claims that although Brooks thought he deleted ‘everything on Ms. Roe’s phone,’ some of their alleged texts remain on her phone.
As the Recording Industry Association of America’s top solo artist in history, selling nearly 150 million albums, the Friends in Low Places, singer has an estimated net worth of between $300 million and $350 million.
He has at times been the highest-paid celebrity on the planet. Between June 2017 and June 2018, he earned $45 million. In the same period in 2019 — the year Roe accuses him of raping her — he earned $25 million.
Brooks’s country singer wife Trisha Yearwood’s own wealth brings their net worth as a couple to around $400 million.
‘And that huge stick you carry! Roo-sevelt!!’ the plaintiff allegedly wrote in a redacted text featured in the lawsuit. ‘I’ll take that nick-name. Thank you. I love you,’ Brooks allegedly replied
Jane Doe also says Brooks tried to talk her into a threesome with his wife Trisha Yearwood, with Yearwood allegedly overhearing one of the discussions; Brooks and Yearwood are pictured in April 2022
Married for 21 years, Yearwood, 60, and Brooks have homes in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as Nashville, Tennessee, and Malibu, California.
Brooks broke his silence on Thursday night, hours after issuing a strenuous legal denial of the allegations of rape and battery claims leveled by the make-up artist whom he has known for more than 20 years.
Sharing an update to Instagram after his show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Brooks wrote to fans that he ‘really needed this.’
Uploading a photograph of the huge crowd who turned out to cheer him on he wrote, ‘If ever there was a night that I really needed this, TONIGHT was that night! Thank you for my life!!!!love, g.’
In two complaints filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Tuesday, October 8, Brooks again denied the allegations of the woman suing him.
He went on to label himself the ‘victim of a shakedown,’ and he accused the woman, a makeup artist who formerly worked for him as an independent contractor, of trying to ‘blackmail’ him in exchange for a payday worth millions, according to documents obtained by People.
Prior to the makeup artist even filing her lawsuit, Brooks had launched a preemptive countersuit in Mississippi in which he used the pseudonym John Doe, while the woman was referred to as Jane Doe in that suit and in the eventual lawsuit that she filed this month in California.
But Brooks threatened to reveal the woman’s identity, and he wrote in the first of his complaints that he planned to ‘re-file his complaint without pseudonyms.’
He claimed the escalation was because Jane Doe’s attorney had ‘disclosed’ his identity publicly.
Brooks also said he was fighting back to ‘defend himself against extortion.’
His second complaint included a request for his lawsuit to be decided by a jury to ‘obtain relief’ from his makeup artist accuser.
He also asked the court for a ‘declaratory judgment’ saying his accuser’s claims ‘against him of sexual misconduct are untrue,’ along with compensatory and punitive damages, plus a reimbursement of his attorney fees.
The Friends In Low Places singer accused the woman of ‘defamation, false light invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress’ in the complaint.
As for his claim that she was trying to ‘blackmail’ him for ‘millions of dollars,’ Brooks alleged that her lawsuit and requests were in response to him ‘reject[ing] her request for salaried employment and medical benefits.’
The hitmaker even accused the former employee of having ‘threatened’ to ‘publicly disclose false claims’ about him that were designed to ‘imperil his business and reputation.’
Brooks reiterated claims made in his first lawsuit filing that the makeup artist had worked for him as an independent contractor for around 15.
In his first complaint, Brooks threatened to out the woman by using her real name, rather than a pseudonym, in a new filing after claiming her attorneys revealed his identity publicly; seen in March 2023 in Nashville
In his second complaint, he asked for a jury trial, a ‘declaratory judgment’ saying his accuser’s claims were untrue, and compensatory and punitive damages, plus his legal fees; seen in 2016 in NYC
But after she moved from Tennessee to Mississippi, he claimed she fell on financial difficulties and asked him for a salaried position with medical benefits.
The singer–songwriter said in his complaint that he received a ‘demand letter’ from the makeup artist shortly after he denied her request, and he said it accused him of sexual ‘grooming,’ ‘unwanted sexual touching and sexual assault.’
‘The July 17 demand letter was the first time Plaintiff learned of these allegations, none of which has any basis in fact,’ Brooks said in his latest complaint.
He then accused the woman of ask him for ‘millions of dollar’ against the threat of ‘publicly fil[ing]’ the letter containing the accusations.
Uploading a photograph of the huge crowd who turned out to cheer him on he wrote, ‘If ever there was a night that I really needed this, TONIGHT was that night! Thank you for my life!!!!love, g.’
Brooks originally filed his preemptive countersuit in Mississippi last month, while the makeup artist’s lawsuit against him was filed later in California on October 3.
