The-Dream has petitioned to have the rape and sex trafficking lawsuit made against him dismissed.
The R&B superstar was accused by a former former protégé named Chanaaz Mangroe of sexually and emotionally abusing her, claims he has already denied.
In his motion, the singer-songwriter is asking the judge overseeing the case to make a number of amendments, according to Variety.
He is asking for the rape claim to be dismissed from the suit as it is not a separate civil cause of action under California law, as well as the removal of 300 paragraphs from the filing that he claims are “irrelevant” to the proceedings.
The-Dream also wants his company Contra Paris LLC to be removed from the filing as it is based in Delaware and additionally claims that the sex trafficking allegation has no merit as it does not meet the definition of the law in California, which requires a “commercial element.”
“The Complaint is a textbook example of a ‘shotgun pleading’ and must be dismissed in its entirety for failing to attribute specific factual allegations to each defendant,” said The-Dream’s attorney Desirée F. Moore 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.”
Moore further claimed that the lawsuit was made against The-Dream for “financial gain.”
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She also reiterated The-Dream’s stance that there was never any non-consensual sex between the two and that it was the singer who ended the relationship, with Mangroe continuing to pursue him afterwards.
Mangroe’s attorneys responded to the motion, saying in a statement: “The-Dream’s arguments seeking to dismiss Plaintiff’s allegations are wholly unpersuasive. We look forward to opposing the motions and proceeding to discovery in this case.”
In 2015, The-Dream allegedly ramped up his control of Mangroe by flying her out to Atlanta, where he “locked Ms. Mangroe in a dark room adjacent to a recording studio, violently having sex with her and then leaving her alone, naked in the dark, for hours on end, returning to again have sex with her and demand that she tell him she loved him.”
The co-writer of “Umbrella” would label the accusations as “untrue and defamatory.”
