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Warning: This story incorporates graphic language about sexual assault.
Trey Songz has been accused of rape in a brand new lawsuit, making her the third lady to lodge a sexual assault criticism towards the R&B singer in latest months, in response to courtroom paperwork obtained by The Every day Beast.
The nameless accuser alleges that Songz anally raped her on March 24, 2016, in California—“a rape so brutal that Plaintiff Jane Doe required and obtained speedy emergency medical care,” the criticism filed on Tuesday claims.
“Trey Songz invited Plaintiff Jane Doe ‘upstairs,’” the go well with alleges. “Plaintiff Jane Doe believed she would have consensual intercourse with the Defendant Trey Songz as they beforehand have had. On the best way up the steps, Defendant Trey Songz repeatedly requested Plaintiff Jane Doe if Defendant might ‘get that ass.’ Plaintiff Jane Doe repeatedly informed Defendant Trey Songz NO and to cease asking.”
“After coming into the bed room, Trey Songz turned, nearly instantly, right into a savage rapist,” the go well with continues. “Trey Songz threw Plaintiff Jane Doe to the bottom, ripped Plaintiff Jane Doe’s pants off, pinned Plaintiff Jane Doe down face first and compelled Defendant Trey Songz’ penis into Plaintiff’s anus with out Plaintiff Jane Doe’s consent. Plaintiff Jane Doe screamed in ache and begged Defendant Trey Songs [sic] to cease. Plaintiff Jane Doe tried to struggle Defendant Trey Songz off her however was overpowered by Defendant Trey Songz. Somebody entered the room through the rape, and Plaintiff Jane Doe hoped the brutal anal rape would possibly finish. The person shortly exited the room and the anal rape continued.”
After the alleged assault, the lady says in her go well with, she known as an Uber “to flee additional assault and to get house,” however the driver observed that she was in “clear misery and rerouted Plaintiff Jane Doe to the closest hospital.”
The Every day Beast has reached out to Los Angeles police to ask if they've opened a case into the alleged assault. Trey Songz’ workforce didn't instantly reply to The Every day Beast’s request for remark however, in a assertion to TMZ, they denied the allegations and claimed the lawyer who drafted the go well with “was credibly accused of attempting to pay a girl to falsely accuse Trey.”
The girl is being represented by George Vrabeck and Ariel Mitchell, the identical attorneys who're representing former faculty basketball participant Dylan Gonzalez, who in January accused Songz of raping her at a Las Vegas lodge room about 9 years in the past. Mitchell has additionally introduced a civil case towards Songz in Miami on behalf of Jauhara Jeffries, who claimed that Songz sexually assaulted her at a membership on New Yr’s Eve in 2018.
“Victims are coming ahead each day. Simply know you aren't alone, and this conduct is unacceptable. George Vrabeck and I can't be deterred by bullying or intimidation ways and can proceed our pursuit of Justice for sexual assault victims of Trey Songz,” the attorneys mentioned in a press release to The Every day Beast.
Neither signify the unnamed lady who turned to Las Vegas police in late November, alleging that she was sexually assaulted by the 37-year-old after assembly him at Drai’s Nightclub in The Cromwell lodge to ring in his birthday, earlier than becoming a member of his entourage again at his lodge room at The Cosmopolitan.
Las Vegas police opened an investigation into the alleged assault, and confirmed this week to The Every day Beast that the investigation was nonetheless energetic and ongoing. On the time the investigation was introduced, police mentioned Songz was cooperating with legislation enforcement.
With the specter of even additional authorized motion, it appears the partitions might lastly be closing in on Songz, who over time has managed to keep away from any critical reputational harm or legal repercussions for the pile of sexual assault and bodily violence claims which have been introduced towards him by each men and women.
He confronted legal expenses in Detroit in 2016 for an alleged violent altercation, the place he was accused of punching a police sergeant within the head and injuring a cameraman when he threw a microphone stand off a stage throughout a efficiency. On the time, his lawyer claimed the altercation was an “remoted incident.” In 2021, Songz was once more let off the hook after being caught on video in a scuffle with a Kansas Metropolis police officer.
A handful of girls have additionally come ahead to accuse Songz of bodily violence. Andrea Buera publicly recounted how Songz allegedly choked, punched, and knocked her to the bottom at his L.A. rental in Feb. 2018 after changing into livid that she had been chatting with one among his associates. She supplied a photograph of herself in a hospital mattress the place there seemed to be a bruise forming beneath her chin, and different photographs with marks round her eyes and brow. Actress Keke Palmer additionally spoke of a regarding interplay with Songz, alleging in 2017 that he used “sexual intimidation” to stress her into showing in a music video that she didn't need to be featured in, claiming tried to cover from him in a closet.
Whereas Songz was one of many high R&B crooners within the mid 2010s, with hits “Na Na,” “Say Ah,” “Bottoms Up,” and “Dive In,” by 2017 he started to fall off the charts, together with his subsequent singles and up to date album Again Dwelling flopping. Lately, Songz turned his consideration to membership appearances, bopping across the nation to carry out at numerous venues and at Las Vegas nightclubs.
However the latest police investigation into Songz appeared to have triggered 27-year-old Gonzalez to come back ahead on New Yr’s Eve, saying she couldn’t enter the brand new yr with a weight on her chest. “Trey Songz is a rapist,” she wrote in a tweet, giving no additional element.
A number of weeks later, she was lastly able to elaborate. “With what looks like endlessly recurring information of the alleged sexual assault dedicated by Trey Songz, I'm pressured to repeatedly relive in my thoughts, and undergo anew, the long-suppressed horror and insufferable PTSD of my rape by his very fingers at a widely known Las Vegas Lodge,” Gonzalez wrote, noting she was working with Vrabeck to contemplate what her authorized choices have been. Gonzalez has not but introduced authorized motion towards Songz.
In the meantime Jefferies' case in Miami is ongoing, with a $20 million civil criticism that was first introduced towards Songz in Jan. 2020 being refiled in December. Though courtroom papers point out the events had reached a settlement in 2021, a decide immediately dismissed the go well with on a earlier movement, which led to the refiling, Mitchell beforehand informed The Every day Beast.
Jeffries claimed she met Songz at a New Yr’s Eve get together held at Diddy’s Miami mansion earlier than they continued the night time on the widespread nightclub E11EVEN. Whereas dancing on a sofa on the membership, Jeffries, who was carrying a costume with a excessive slit, claims that she felt “fingers being inserted into her vagina.” After leaving the membership, Jeffries claims that Songz and somebody in his safety element threw her out of their automotive and onto the road, injuring her.
Jeffries, who's in her late 20s, initially sued Songz beneath a Jane Doe pseudonym however later determined to come back ahead together with her actual title, Mitchell mentioned. “She doesn’t need to cover behind the Jane Doe, she doesn’t need to be ashamed of what occurred to her,” Mitchell mentioned.