Garth Brooks Wants California Rape Case Dismissed & Handled In Mississippi; Singer Gets West Coast Case Moved From State To Federal Court

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Garth Brooks wasted no time making his next move once the “We Shall Be Free” singer had the rape case from a former make-up artist and stylist for himself and Trisha Yearwood shifted from California state court to federal court.

In a 17-page motion to dismiss filed late today in the U.S. District Court Central District of California, Brooks and his O’Melveny & Myers lawyers now want Jane Roe’s West Coast case shuttered ASAP.

They’ve requested a hearing in front of Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in downtown Los Angeles for the morning of December 9. Read Garth Brooks’ motion to have the California rape case against him tossed out & shifted to Mississippi here Identified by name by Brooks in an October 8 document in federal court in Mississippi, the ex-employee alleged in her graphic and $75,000 in unspecified damages-seeking October 3 filing in LA Superior Court that she was the victim of an overwhelmingly “painful and traumatic” attack by the “Friends in Low Places” singer.

Stating that Brooks took advantage of her with constant groping, lewd remarks and more starting in 2019 because he knew how much she needed work, Jane Roe’s lawyer Doug Wigdor exclaimed that “Brooks believes he is entitled to sexual gratification when he wants it, and using a female employee to get it, is fair game.” Rejecting the accusations and the claim that his previous filing in Mississippi was “a blatant attempt to further control and bully his sexual assault victim by utilizing his multi-millionaire resources to game the legal system,” Brooks said the matter was a shakedown to make him “write a check for many millions of dollars.” Harking back to the originally anonymous action that Brooks himself preemptively filed in mid-September, the county