The-Dream Sued for Rape, Bodily Abuse & Trafficking

The-Dream is the newest 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 right now (June 4) in a California federal courtroom.

In her grievance, confirmed by Pitchfork and TMZ, Mangroe says that she met The-Dream in 2014 when she was 23 years, coming to the US from Netherlands, “hoping to land her massive break as a singer and a songwriter.” The lawsuit states, “Beneath the guise of pursuing a authentic recording and publishing contract with Ms. Mangroe, Dream lured the younger and susceptible artist into an abusive, violent, and manipulative relationship crammed 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 control 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 prepared to work as exhausting as attainable to make her recording goals come true.”

The lawsuit additional states that in their first evening 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 might 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 looking forward to what she believed was her massive break,” in keeping 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 accessible to have intercourse with him each time he demanded it.”

“Dream grew to become more and more controlling after Ms. Mangroe moved to Atlanta,” she claims within the grievance. “He instructed Ms. Mangroe that she wanted to examine in with him every single day, she wanted to be accessible to him each time he known 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 file label) and Epic Information, however “Dream maintained full management over communications regarding Ms. Mangroe’s deal and Epic—he refused to attach her to anybody straight, and even to incorporate her in electronic mail or textual content chains with the executives from the key file label she was now signed to,” in keeping with the grievance.