Trey Songz has been hit with a brand new $25 million lawsuit stemming from a earlier sexual assault accusation, in accordance with courtroom paperwork obtained by Rolling Stone. The swimsuit additionally names the R&B singer’s label Atlantic Data, supervisor Kevin Liles and 300 Leisure as defendants, claiming the events ought to be held accountable for the singer’s actions.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles on Thursday, is linked to a sexual battery lawsuit filed by a Jane Doe final February in opposition to the 38-year-old (actual identify Tremaine Neverson) over claims he sodomized the girl throughout a celebration in March 2016.
In an announcement given to Rolling Stone, Doe’s lawyer George Vrabeck calls out Atlantic Data, which signed Neverson within the early 2000s, in addition to Neverson’s supervisor Liles and 300, the label he co-founded, for successfully turning a blind eye to the rising variety of accusations in opposition to the singer all through the years.
“This case is far more than about one singer and one viciously abused sexual assault survivor who has the braveness to take motion,” Vrabeck says. “It’s additionally very a lot in regards to the systematic sexual abuse within the music trade and the music trade’s complicity in silencing sexual abuse survivors. It’s nearly inconceivable to imagine that these executives should not and weren’t conscious of the institutionalized sexual abuse.” (Reps for Neverson, Liles, 300 and Atlantic didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.)
Doe’s allegations mirror these in her first lawsuit, which was dismissed final November after Neverson’s workforce argued her declare was previous the statute of limitations. The 2 have been at a celebration within the West Hills part of Los Angeles when Neverson allegedly led Doe to a bed room. Acknowledging the 2 had a consensual sexual historical past, Doe claims she was anticipating to have one other consensual encounter. Nonetheless as soon as contained in the room, she says issues have been totally different.
Neverson allegedly threw Doe to the bottom and anally raped her, ignoring her as she screamed in ache, fought to get free and begged him to cease, in accordance with the lawsuit. Following the alleged assault, Doe claims her involved Lyft driver took her to a close-by hospital the place she claims that she was given medical remedy and sexual assault counseling.
After the encounter, Doe claims Neverson harassed her once they ran into one another on nights out, together with throughout a New Yr’s Eve social gathering the place he allegedly shouted that she was a “slut” and a “liar,” and had safety eject her from the occasion. The concern of Neverson was so nice, the swimsuit alleges, that Doe moved to a different state. However even there, she says, she was threatened, claiming that one other musician instructed her to “preserve [Neverson’s] identify out her fucking mouth or he’d kill her.” Doe says she modified the colour of her hair and is planning on shifting to a different new state this 12 months.
Doe’s new swimsuit additionally names Atlantic Data, Liles and his 300 Leisure label as defendants, arguing that by persevering with to have a working relationship with Neverson and overseeing his profession, they “are accountable in some method” for Neverson’s habits.
Naming document labels and affiliated associates is a comparatively new technique that authorized groups are incorporating in intercourse abuse claims in opposition to musicians. Final month, Interscope and its imprint Nothing Data have been named in a civil case introduced in opposition to Marilyn Manson by a special Jane Doe accuser who claims she was a minor when the shock rocker groomed and sexually assaulted her a number of occasions within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. These labels have been allegedly not solely conscious of Manson’s habits, the swimsuit claims, however lacked security guards and correct insurance policies to forestall such abuse from going down. The swimsuit provides that the labels had a accountability to guard Manson’s Jane Doe from any hurt and as a substitute of defending followers, they promoted and financially benefited off of the musician.
Trey Songz’s accuser factors out that she’s not the primary to accuse Neverson of such habits, itemizing 10 different incidents by which Neverson was accused of sexual assault, sexual intimidation or bodily violence in opposition to women and men — together with thrice earlier than her alleged assault — every garnering substantial press protection.
Most lately, Neverson turned himself in to New York Metropolis police after he was accused of punching a person and a girl at a bowling alley final November. The lady informed police Neverson had “dragged her by the hair” after she allegedly tried to cease him from getting into a rest room with a girl from his entourage.
Final April, a girl claimed Neverson had groped her and uncovered her breast throughout a pool social gathering in 2013, looking for a $5 million settlement to keep away from heading to courtroom. That January, former school basketball participant Dylan Gonzalez accused Neverson of raping her in Las Vegas. (Gonzalez’s declare is separate from the girl who accused Neverson of sexually assaulting her throughout his birthday celebrations in Nov. 2021. Las Vegas police closed the investigation in April.)
Neverson was additionally sued for $10 million in Miami in Dec. 2021 by a girl who claimed she had felt his “fingers being inserted into her vagina” with out her consent throughout a New Yr’s Eve social gathering in 2018.