Garth Brooks filed to dismiss the sexual assault and battery lawsuit against him.

Brooks, 62, filed a new motion late Friday, Nov. 8, obtained by Deadline, requesting a hearing to officially close the legal battle. He previously requested that the case be transferred from Mississippi to federal court. The hearing is requested for December 9.

“Indeed, a few days after Brooks’ attorney contacted Roe’s attorney to meet and discuss this Motion to Dismiss, Roe filed a motion in the Southern District of Mississippi asking the court there to transfer the Mississippi Action to this Court because, under Roe, Brooks’ claims against Roe are mandatory counterclaims arising out of the same operative facts,” the court documents state.

Roe, an anonymous hairstylist who accused Brooks of assault, did not respond to her claims. However, one of her attorneys, Jeanne M. Christensen, told Deadline: “This is more of the same harassment and intimidation that Garth Brooks has used since he learned that our client was planning to shoot him to the responsibility. We look forward to going before a jury and getting to the bottom of this case.”

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According to court documents obtained by We weeklya woman identified as “Jane Roe” filed a lawsuit against the country singer on October 3 claiming Brooks raped her during a 2019 business trip to Los Angeles. Roe also alleged that Brooks sent her sexually explicit text messages, repeatedly exposed her genitalia and buttocks, and discussed his sexual fantasies in front of her. She also claimed that Brooks got out of the shower naked and “grabbed his hands and forced them” on her genitals during an alleged incident in 2019.

Roe began working for Brooks in 2017 after previously being hired to do hair and makeup for his now-wife. Trisha Yearwoodin 1999, according to the lawsuit.

Before Roe’s complaint, Brooks denied the allegations in an anonymous filing designed to prevent Roe from sharing her claims publicly.

“The defendant’s allegations are not true,” the filing claims. “The defendant is aware, however, of the substantial and irreparable damage such false allegations would do to the plaintiff’s well-earned reputation as a decent and caring person, together with the inevitable harm to his family and the irreparable damage to his career and livelihood that would result if she followed through on her threat to ‘go public’ with her fabricated lawsuit.”

Roe’s attorneys rebutted Brooks in a statement to Uscalling their “efforts to silence” their client “nothing more than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation.”

“We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions,” the attorneys said Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker he continued. “We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks. Today’s complaint demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood, and the rap and rock and roll industries, but also in the world of country music.”

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Brooks later broke his silence on the allegations.

“For the past two months, I have been tormented endlessly with threats, lies and tragic stories about what my future would be if I didn’t write a multi-million dollar check,” he said. Us in a statement on October 3. “It was like waving a loaded gun in my face.”

“Quiet money, no matter how much or how little, is still quiet money. In my mind, that means I’m admitting to the behavior I’m incapable of – heinous acts that no human should ever do to another,” he continued. “We filed a case against this person almost a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation of character. I submitted it anonymously for the sake of the families on both sides.”

“I want to play music tonight,” the country star concluded. “I want us to continue our good deeds further. It breaks my heart (that) these wonderful things are being discussed now. I trust the system, I’m not afraid of the truth and I’m not the man they painted me to be.”

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Later that month, Brooks filed a complaint against his accuser, claiming he was the “victim of a shakedown” and seeking compensatory and punitive damages. In the Oct. 8 filing, Brooks alleged that his accuser “threatened” in a July letter to “publicly file” her “made-up allegations” unless she “agreed to pay the accused millions of dollars for not to file the lawsuit”. In an alleged follow-up letter, she “offered to refrain from publicly filing a false and defamatory lawsuit against the plaintiff in exchange for a multi-million dollar payment,” according to the documents.

Brooks claimed her accuser leaked her name to the public and accused her of sexual assault after he disagreed with her “requests for paid employment and medical benefits.” He responded by filing a secondary lawsuit that listed his accuser’s real name rather than “Jane Roe.”

Roe’s lawyers reacted to the Brooks file in an October 8 statement to Us. “Garth Brooks just revealed his true self,” the legal team said. “Out of spite and to punish, he publicly named a rape victim. Without any legal justification, Brooks took her out because he believes the laws don’t apply to him. On behalf of our client, we will immediately file for maximum sanctions against him.”

In the midst of the ordeal, a source exclusively recounted Us in October that Yearwood, 60, “trusts Garth completely and has full confidence that the allegations are false,” adding that his wife of 18 years “supports him 100 percent.”

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please get in touch National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).