The-Dream Moves To Exclude Portions of Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Abuse

The-Dream is known for the songs he’s done with some of music’s top female artists – hits like “Single “Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” for Beyoncé and “Umbrella” for Rihanna. But he’s now fighting allegations of sexual assault and has filed a motion to exclude much of those allegations from an ongoing lawsuit per reporting by Variety. 

Terius Gesteelde-Diamant, an eight-time Grammy winner, is known professionally as The-Dream and his lawyers want to exclude multiple parts of the lawsuit filed by Chanaaz Mangroe on June 4. She says she met Diamant ten years ago when she was working in the U.S. after living in the Netherlands.

After messaging her on social media, Mangroe, then 23, says that Diamant promised to further her career as a recording artist and said he would ensure she could open for Beyoncé. But she alleges their personal relationship included constant monitoring, rough sex and verbal abuse. There is also a sex-trafficking accusation in the lawsuit.

“Choosing to speak out about the trauma I survived has been one of the most difficult decisions of my life,” Mangroe said, “but ultimately, what Dream did to me made it impossible to live the life I envisioned for myself and pursue my goals as a singer and songwriter.”

Through his lawyers, The-Dream has denied the allegations, saying that Mangroe, also known as Channii Monroe, “used the judicial system to propagate a false and defamatory narrative about Diamant, a highly-respected Black musician in the arts industry, for their own financial gain and to his extreme detriment—and to the destruction of everything he has ever done as a musician and as a Black figure that the current and new art generations look up to.”

His lawyer, Desirée F. Moore said in a statement. “Plaintiff’s Complaint contains dozens of allegations that are utterly irrelevant to her sexual battery and sex trafficking claims and are, instead, designed solely to smear Diamant’s name and reputation.”

His lawyers are asking that the rape claim be excluded as it’s not able to be litigated separately in the civil case per California law, and are asking for 300 paragraphs of the suit to be excluded as well, saying they are “irrelevant” to the case. They also want his record label Contra Paris LLC to be removed from the suit as its Delaware incorporation puts it outside of the jurisdiction of the lawsuit in California.

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