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Garth Brooks Files to Move Sexual Assault Case to Federal Court

Garth Brooks filed new documents to have his complaint against Jane Roe, a woman who previously worked for the country star and accused him of sexual assault and battery, heard in federal court.

Garth Brooks performs at the 2024 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in March 2024 at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. In his complaint, the “Friends in Low Places” crooner claimed that he was the “victim of a shakedown” and that Roe “devised a malicious scheme to blackmail” him into paying her “millions of dollars” after he “rejected her request for salaried employment and medical benefits.” He has denied Roe’s allegations, claiming in a statement to PEOPLE that he has “been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars.”

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