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Country Star Garth Brooks Faces Sexual Assault and Battery Lawsuit from Former Hair and Makeup Artist

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  Country music legend Garth Brooks is facing serious allegations of sexual assault and battery in a newly filed lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Roe, who claims she worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist for the award-winning singer. The lawsuit, filed in California state court on Thursday and obtained by CNN, alleges that the incidents occurred in 2019, with Roe accusing Brooks of rape during a work-related trip. Roe began working with Brooks in 2017, after initially being hired to provide hair and makeup services for his wife, Trisha Yearwood, in 1999. In a statement to CNN, Brooks addressed the allegations, stating, “For the last two months, I’ve faced endless threats, lies, and demands to pay millions in hush money. No amount of hush money can make me admit to actions I am incapable of — horrific acts no human should commit.” Brooks also revealed that he had already filed a defamation and extortion lawsuit against Roe nearly a month prior, under the pseudonym John D...

Andrew Garfield says he’d ‘100 percent’ be into playing Spider-Man again

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It’s entirely in the realm of possibility that we could one day see Andrew Garfield dangling from a skyscraper as Spider-Man again. This according to the actor himself, who told Esquire in an interview published on Wednesday that he’d “100 percent come back” to reprise his iteration as the beloved, web-slinging superhero. He’d return, he said, “if it was the right thing, if it’s additive to the culture, if there’s a great concept or something that hasn’t been done before that’s unique and odd and exciting and that you can sink your teeth into.” Garfield succeeded Tobey Maguire in the role of Peter Parker/Spider-man, and while his first outing opposite Emma Stone in 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” was very well-received, the sequel two years later was met with a much cooler reception. The reception was so cold, in fact, that a third installment of the franchise was shelved by Sony, the film’s studio, and the return of Garfield’s Spider-Man at the time was left in limbo – or, as he de...