Country music icon Garth Brooks has been sued by a makeup artist and hairstylist, who accuses him of raping her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2019.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the “Jane Roe” raises allegations of sexual assault, battery and violations of California laws protecting against harassment and coercion. In addition to rape, she claims he repeatedly groped her and subjected her to sexually explicit comments.

Prior to filing the complaint, Brooks — while in settlement negotiations with the unnamed plaintiff — preemptively filed a lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi to block the plaintiff from filing a lawsuit, the lawsuit said. In that lawsuit, Brooks, who filed a “John Doe” and described himself as a “celebrity and public figure living in Tennessee,” alleged he is being extorted for his refusal to give the plaintiff a raise and pay for health insurance.

“Brooks desperately wants to prevent his millions of fans from learning about the heinous things he said and did to a young female employee who did nothing to deserve such treatment,” the complaint said.

Thursday’s lawsuit details how Brooks violently raped the accuser when she traveled with him to a show in Los Angeles in May 2019. When they arrived at the hotel, the singer held her down and pulled her onto the bed, the lawsuit alleges. Roe claims he then “held her tiny body upside down near her feet and penetrated her.”

The lawsuit alleges that the attack was premeditated, as Brooks booked only one suite without separate rooms and insisted that no other employees join him on the trip.

After the alleged rape, Roe says the country star “groped her breasts whenever he could” and forced her to expose her breasts to him. He repeatedly threatened to “mess with her” before becoming visibly angry when she refused, the lawsuit said.

“Her fear that he would subject her to unwanted sex was justified one morning when Ms. Roe went to Brooks’ room to do his make-up and make-up. He was lying on the bed, face down, wearing loose shorts and holding his crotch. ‘ reads the complaint. “She narrowly escaped another assault because he arrived late and other people were waiting to pick him up.”

The situation reached a boiling point in 2020 when Roe said in an email also sent to Brooks’ wife that she could not “work in an environment where explicit sexual comments are made.”

There’s more to come.