The-Dream is the most recent musician who has been sued for sexual assault and extra.
The multi platinum artist and really profitable songwriter is being sued by Chanaaz Mangroe aka Channii Monroe who filed her lawsuit at this time (June 4) in a California federal court docket.
In her grievance, confirmed by Pitchfork and TMZ, Mangroe says that she met The-Dream in 2014 when she was 23 years, coming to america from Netherlands, “hoping to land her large break as a singer and a songwriter.” The lawsuit states, “Underneath the guise of pursuing a reputable recording and publishing contract with Ms. Mangroe, Dream lured the younger and susceptible artist into an abusive, violent, and manipulative relationship stuffed with bodily assaults, violent sexual encounters, and horrific psychological manipulation.”
The lawsuit alleges that Dream used his fame and connections with Beyoncé, Rihanna, Jay-Z, and others to govern Mangroe. “For a brand new artist, the considered turning into the subsequent Beyonce or Rihanna was clearly intoxicating,” the lawsuit reads, “and Ms. Mangroe was keen to work as laborious as potential to make her recording desires come true.”
The lawsuit additional states that in their first night time on the recording studio, The-Dream “pressured her to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in extreme portions,” and in addition pressured her “to have intercourse with him. He assured her that intercourse with him was ‘a part of the method’ and he may solely write hit songs for her if she agreed to let him know the whole lot about her,” the lawsuit claims. The-Dream allegedly introduced Mangroe to a bed room and had intercourse along with her; the producer left Mangroe within the bed room and returned intermittently to proceed having intercourse along with her, the lawsuit claims.
“She returned to her resort confused, however tried to stay grateful and eager for what she believed was her large break,” in line with the grievance. “All through her time in Los Angeles, if Ms. Mangroe and Dream had been within the studio on the identical time, he anticipated her to be obtainable to have intercourse with him each time he demanded it.”
“Dream turned more and more controlling after Ms. Mangroe moved to Atlanta,” she claims within the grievance. “He advised Ms. Mangroe that she wanted to test in with him every single day, she wanted to be obtainable to him each time he referred to as, and that she ought to rely solely on him for something she wanted.”
By Might 2015, she signed her contracts with Contra Paris (Dream’s document label) and Epic Data, however “Dream maintained full management over communications regarding Ms. Mangroe’s deal and Epic—he refused to attach her to anybody immediately, and even to incorporate her in electronic mail or textual content chains with the executives from the key document label she was now signed to,” in line with the grievance.