The-Dream accused of rape, sex trafficking, and sexual battery

Producer The-Dream aka Terius Gesteelde-Diamant aka Terius Nash is an eight-time Grammy winner who helped make some of the biggest pop and R&B hits of the last two decades, including Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body,” and Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” His former protege Chanaaz Mangroe, who performed as Channii Monroe, has filed a lawsuit alleging rape, sex trafficking and sexual battery. She claims that in 2015, [sensitive content]he repeatedly forced her to have sex, strangled her, and once made a video recording of an intimate encounter and threatened to show it to others.

In 2014, she was an aspriing singer in the Netherlands. One of his associates asked her to send some of her music. In 2015, she flew to Atlanta to meet with The-Dream, who took her to a strip club. Within a few days, he started pressuring her to have sex with him, saying that it was “part of the process.”

[sensitive content]While they were at a recording studio, he locked her in a dark room and “would only stop aggressively having sex with her once she said that she loved him.” In other sexual encounters, he held her down and refused to use a condom. He would place a gun next to her during sex. While at a movie theater, he requested oral sex from her. When she said no, he became angry and forced her to have sex in the theater. Afterward, he took her to his van and forced her to have sex with him again, pinning her down and putting his hand over her mouth and nose so she couldn’t breathe.

She alleges that he also became controlling. He had her stay at a hotel so his security staff could constantly monitor her. He berated her if she didn’t check in with him regularly. When she told him that the hotel had bed bugs, he called her a disloyal brat and blamed her for causing delays to Beyoncé’s album.

He claims that Mangroe’s accusations are untrue and defamatory. She has hired the lawyers who represented Cassie Ventura in her lawsuit against Sean Diddy Combs.

In 2014, he was charged with assaulting a former girlfriend while she was eight months pregnant. She alleged that he kicked, punched and choked her.

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