The-Dream Slams Sexual Assault Lawsuit As Defamatory

The-Dream is fiercely defending himself in opposition to allegations of sexual assault made by singer Chanaaz Mangroe. The hitmaker is pushing again in opposition to the lawsuit, claiming it’s a malicious try to break his fame.

The authorized battle erupted simply months after Mangroe filed a criticism accusing The-Dream, whose actual title is Terius Gesteelde-Diamant, of sexual assault and emotional misery.

Though the lawsuit has sparked a media firestorm, The-Dream, who is understood for his work with Beyoncé, has categorically denied the accusations. 

The famend music producer vehemently denied sexual assault allegations introduced in opposition to him by Mangroe. The-Dream’s authorized workforce demanded the dismissal of the lawsuit, asserting that the claims had been totally false and defamatory.

Within the courtroom submitting, his legal professional rejected the claims, emphasizing The-Dream’s long-standing advocacy for girls’s rights. 

He emphasised the 46-year-old’s historical past of advocating for girls’s rights and his quite a few skilled and private relationships with robust ladies. The authorized workforce argued:

“[The Dream] has a prolonged historical past of advocacy for girls and girls’s causes, has private {and professional} relationships with many robust and profitable ladies, and helps ladies coming ahead to share their tales of abuse. This is just not that: [Chanaaz] is just not, and by no means was, [The Dream’s]sufferer – full cease.”

In response to paperwork obtained by In Touch, the songwriter’s lawyer described his previous relationship with Mangroe as a consensual, transient courtship between two adults. 

“There was by no means non-consensual intercourse between them; there was by no means intercourse exchanged for cash or different industrial achieve; and [The Dream] by no means abused [Chanaaz] in any method,” the legal professional added.

Refusing to again down, the music producer has escalated his authorized battle in opposition to Mangroe and her authorized workforce, Wigdor LLP, accusing them of orchestrating a malicious marketing campaign to break his fame. 

In response to the singer’s June submitting,  The-Dream’s authorized workforce’s courtroom submitting claims that Mangroe and her authorized workforce “are utilizing the judicial system to propagate a false and defamatory narrative about [The Dream], a highly- revered Black musician within the arts business.”

The assertion implies that the lawsuit was “for their very own monetary achieve and to his excessive detriment—and to the destruction of every thing he has ever carried out as a musician and as a Black determine that the present and new artwork generations look as much as.” 

His lawyer additional alleged that the regulation agency deliberately leaked the criticism to the media to generate sensational headlines earlier than formally submitting it, aiming to strain the producer right into a settlement.

The authorized workforce added that the lawsuit’s harm extends past the hitmaker’s profession, affecting his household.

Mangroe got here ahead with stunning allegations of violent sexual abuse and psychological manipulation. Her authorized workforce claimed that The-Dream subjected her to “violent sexual acts and cruel psychological torture.”

In response to the lawsuit, Mangroe’s legal professional described one significantly harrowing incident wherein “Dream locked [Chanaaz] in a darkish room adjoining to a recording studio, violently having intercourse along with her after which leaving her alone, bare in the dead of night, for hours on finish, returning to once more have intercourse along with her and demand that she inform him she cherished him.” 

The allegations go additional, with Mangroe accusing the father-of-nine of controlling each facet of her keep within the U.S. Another conditions had been forcing her to drink alcohol by pulling her hair and pouring it down her throat, and interesting in violent sexual acts, together with frequent strangulation and rape.

She additionally claimed that he refused to put on safety throughout intercourse and berated her in the course of the encounters.

Other than the intense claims within the lawsuit, the music mogul additionally confronted extreme allegations of human trafficking. 

The Blast reported that the lawsuit filed in June by Mangroe in a California federal courtroom paints a harrowing image of abuse and exploitation. 

The authorized motion additionally accuses Epic Data and Contra Paris, LLC of enabling these acts, implicating them within the alleged intercourse trafficking beneath the guise of enterprise dealings. 

Mangroe claims she was lured right into a purported music profession deal that shortly reworked right into a nightmare. 

Mangroe claims that her relationship with music producer The-Dream started beneath false pretenses, in the end resulting in manipulation and abuse. 

In response to authorized paperwork, the 32-year-old claims she was simply 23 when she was approached by associates of The-Dream in 2014 whereas working within the U.S. on a world visa.

Hoping for her huge break within the music business, Mangroe eagerly submitted samples of her work and was quickly invited to satisfy The-Dream and his manufacturing accomplice, Difficult Stewart, in Atlanta. 

What started as an thrilling alternative shortly became one thing far darker, in keeping with Mangroe’s claims. She alleges that The-Dream used his age and affect to govern her right into a poisonous relationship, convincing her that she wanted him for fulfillment within the business.

Because the authorized battle unfolds, the producer stays targeted on clearing his title whereas persevering with his work within the music business.