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An attorney representing the woman who has accused Garth Brooks of rape called country music singer’s framing of the allegations against him “simply not true.”
As news broke Thursday that Brooks had been accused of sexual misconduct in a lawsuit, Brooks, 62, promptly denied the claims. He alleged that he was being shaken down to pay “many millions of dollars” in “hush money.”
“It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” said Brooks in a statement. “Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of — ugly acts no human should ever do to another.… I want to continue our good deeds going forward.”
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