{"id":129209,"date":"2024-10-04T22:46:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/garth-brooks-compared-to-sean-diddy-combs-in-statement-issued-by-lawyer-of-his-alleged-rape-victim\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T22:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T22:46:31","slug":"garth-brooks-compared-to-sean-diddy-combs-in-statement-issued-by-lawyer-of-his-alleged-rape-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/garth-brooks-compared-to-sean-diddy-combs-in-statement-issued-by-lawyer-of-his-alleged-rape-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks compared to Sean &apos;Diddy&apos; Combs in statement issued by lawyer of his alleged rape victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-10-04\" datetime=\"1728081991\" pubdate=\"\">4 October 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/garth-brooks\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,garth-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garth Brooks<\/a> has been compared to Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs in a statement issued by his alleged rape victim\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Garth Brooks has been compared to Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs in a statement issued by his alleged rape victim\u2019s lawyer<\/p>\n<p>The country music giant, 62, was hit by a court claim on Thursday (03.10.24) by a woman identified only as Jane Roe \u2013 who says she spent years working as the musician\u2019s hairstylist and make-up artist \u2013 that he raped her.<\/p>\n<p>He hit back by branding the case part of an attempt to extort him, and the woman\u2019s lawyer has now released a damning statement in response.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Douglas H Wigdor said: \u201cI cannot get into settlement discussions, but the suggestion made by Brooks that he was unwilling to pay millions (to Jane Roe) is simply not true. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems as though Sean Combs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/garth-brooks\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,garth-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garth Brooks<\/a> are using the same public relations team by attacking legitimate victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMr Wigdor\u2019s statement went on: \u201cWe are very confident in our case and over time the public will see his true character rather than his highly curated persona.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nThe attorney and his associates filed a lawsuit on Thursday in California on behalf of their anonymous client, who says in her suit Garth raped her in 2019 after she was hired as a hairstylist for the singer and his 60-year-old wife Trisha Yearwood.<\/p>\n<p>\nGarth said in a statement after the claim was made public: \u201cFor the last two months, I have 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. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behaviour I am incapable of \u2013 ugly acts no human should ever do to another.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI want to continue our good deeds going forward. It breaks my heart these wonderful things are in question now. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMr Wigdor representing Combs\u2019 singer ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, 37, when she filed a lawsuit against the rapped in November 2023, saying he repeatedly sexually assaulted and physically abused her throughout their on-off relationship. <\/p>\n<p>\nCombs vehemently denied the allegations and they settled the lawsuit out of court within one day \u2013 with footage later emerging of him beating her in a hotel hallway.<\/p>\n<p>\nNews broke in September Combs had been arrested in New York on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. <\/p>\n<p>\nIn a 14-page federal indictment, the rapper is alleged to have \u201cabused, threatened and coerced women and others around him\u201d for decades. <\/p>\n<p>\nCombs was also accused of using the acts to fulfill \u201chis sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe pleaded not guilty to the charges before a judge denied him bail and he was remanded to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until his trial, with a status hearing in his case scheduled for 9 October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/garth-brooks-compared-sean-diddy-combs-statement-issued-lawyer-alleged-rape-victim-1407392.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 October 2024 Garth Brooks has been compared to Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs in a statement issued by his alleged rape victim\u2019s lawyer. Garth Brooks has been compared to Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs in a statement issued by his alleged rape victim\u2019s lawyer The country music giant, 62, was hit by a court claim on Thursday (03.10.24) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5087,7983,1800,9809,4378,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-129209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-cassie-ventura","9":"tag-douglas-h-wigdor","10":"tag-garth-brooks","11":"tag-jane-roe","12":"tag-sean-diddy-combs","13":"tag-trisha-yearwood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}