LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Tremaine Neverson, often known as ‘Trey Songz,’ claimed in newly filed courtroom paperwork he was unaware of a lawsuit filed towards him regardless of a reporter reaching out to an lawyer who mentioned he represented the singer multiple 12 months in the past.
The 8 Information Now Investigators first reported on the greater than $11 million default judgment towards Neverson in a Las Vegas courtroom on Nov. 25.
“The enforcement of this default judgment will be devastating to Neverson and will ruin his life,” Neverson’s attorneys wrote in a Dec. 6 movement.
The plaintiff, Tyrelle Dunn, alleged Neverson and his safety guards beat him after he tried to rescue his spouse who reported being held towards her will at The Cosmopolitan on Nov. 28, 2021.
Clark County District Court docket Decide Jacob Reynolds ordered the $11.2 million default judgment on Oct. 10 which included almost $28,000 for medical bills, $5 million for ache and struggling, $5 million for punitive damages, and $1.2 for prejudgment curiosity.
“Neverson did not know about this lawsuit until November 27, 2024, when he received Instagram messages from fans extending their support after news broke about Dunn’s default judgment,” Neverson’s movement acknowledged. “Neverson deserves to have his day in court to defend himself, rather than being subjected to a massive default judgment which was improperly obtained in an underlying case that Neverson knew nothing about until a week prior to filing this motion.”
Nevertheless, a reporter emailed lawyer Mitch Shuster on Oct. 11, 2023, asking if he represented Neverson.
Schuster responded, “I do.”
The reporter responded the next day, “I am reaching out about the lawsuit he is facing in Las Vegas about an incident in November 2021 at The Cosmopolitan,” and moreover adopted up later within the day.
Schuster replied, “No comment.”
Whereas Dunn’s attorneys mentioned Neverson was served by gate guards at his residence, Neverson’s attorneys argued service was not correctly effectuated underneath Nevada or California legislation.
Neverson additionally categorically denies the allegations, in accordance with the movement.
Dunn wrote in an affidavit that he suffered fractures to each eye sockets, and accidents to his nostril, face, ribs, abdomen, ear, and head, and missed greater than a month of labor as a Maryland Capitol police officer.”Plaintiff’s wife was escorted by Defendant security personnel to room 6014 where she was told she would meet Trey Songz,” the lawsuit alleged. “That while in room 6014, plaintiff’s wife was assaulted, tried to leave and had her phone taken away.”Dunn started looking for his spouse and walked towards the room, in accordance with the criticism. Dunn heard his spouse screaming for assist and reporting she was being held towards her will, the criticism acknowledged. That is when Dunn mentioned that he was attacked.”The attack has had a profound and everyday impact on my life. I still have the scarring, and suffer emotionally from the attack,” Dunn wrote. “I think about the attack every day when I see the injuries to my face and body.”
Neverson claimed he defended himself from Dunn, after which his “security guards grabbed Dunn and escorted him away, where an altercation apparently occurred,” in accordance with his movement.
Las Vegas Metro police responded to the incident. In April 2022, police mentioned that Trey Songz wouldn’t be charged.”The LVMPD has concluded the investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Tremaine Neverson and determined that no criminal charges will be filed. If any new evidence comes to light, the case will be reopened for further investigation,” the division mentioned in an announcement.
Neverson alleged it was “a set-up orchestrated by Dunn,” within the movement.
Dunn accused Neverson and his safety of battery, assault, and negligence.The Cosmopolitan was additionally named as a defendant within the preliminary criticism.Neverson is finest identified for 2010 hits, “Bottoms Up,” and “Say Aah.” He referred to himself as a “prominent R&B singer,” in an affidavit.
Neverson has confronted earlier allegations of sexual and bodily assaults.
In June 2023, a girl filed a lawsuit towards Neverson alleging he pulled down her bikini high to show her breast in entrance of a crowd of individuals together with her co-workers at an occasion in Connecticut in 2013.”Plaintiff, while nervously laughing to mask her shock and humiliation, immediately pulled her top back on and prepared for another assault, holding her arm over her chest for an extended period of time,” the criticism filed within the Central District of California acknowledged.The incident is captured on video.The month prior, Neverson pleaded responsible to a disorderly conduct violation after he was accused of assault in New York.In April 2023, a girl filed a lawsuit in California alleging Neverson sexually assaulted her at his residence in 2016.”Songz repeatedly asked plaintiff if he could ‘get that ass,’ meaning have anal sex,” the girl alleged. “Plaintiff repeatedly told defendant Songz no in response to defendant Songz’ requests.”The girl claimed the singer then threw her to the bottom and brutally sexually assaulted her. The girl ran out of the house, referred to as a Lyft, and the motive force, who seen that the girl was in misery rerouted the trip and took her to the hospital, the lawsuit alleged.The medical heart contacted Burbank Police, however the girl didn’t cooperate with police as a result of she was fearful of Neverson, in accordance with the criticism.On at the least two events, the girl and singer occurred to be on the identical occasions, the criticism acknowledged.”Songz would shout ‘get that slut out of here’ and create an environment so terrifying that Plaintiff would be forced to leave,” the lawsuit alleged.At a New 12 months’s Eve get together, Neverson noticed the girl and began screaming that she was a “slut” and a liar,” and then his security detail assaulted the woman and told her to leave, according to the complaint.The woman said that she relocated to another state because the singer’s terror was so severe.In December 2021, Dylan Gonzalez, a former University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball player tweeted, “Trey Songz is a rapist.””With what looks as if endlessly reoccurring information of the alleged sexual assaults 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 palms at a well known Las Vegas lodge,” she said in a statement. “I need to ship my love, power, and hope to all who’re victims of sexual assault and its deadly nature. You aren’t alone.”In 2020, a woman filed a lawsuit accusing Neverson of sexual assault and battery at a Miami night club in 2018.The unnamed woman claimed that he forcefully and inappropriately touched her without her consent.The woman and her friends had spent New Year’s Eve celebrating at the home of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs when Trey Songz invited them to EllEVEN nightclub, the complaint stated.The unnamed woman stated another woman had confided in her Neverson had also sexually assaulted her earlier that night.In 2018, two men filed a lawsuit against Neverson in the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division. Robert Avery was working crowd control as a sergeant for the Detroit Police Department and Andrew Potter was a professional photographer with credentials.Neverson became irate, hurled heavy equipment off of the stage and into the crowd, destroyed items on the stage, and picked up a microphone and threw it at Potter, according to the complaint.In a dressing room, Neverson was combative and shouted racially derogatory expletives to officers, the lawsuit alleged. Neverson struck Avery in the face with a closed fist and then caused Avery to hit his head on concrete and injure his hip, the complaint stated.The complaint also referred to videos posted by Neverson showing disdain for law enforcement days before the incident in which he yelled, “[Expletive] the police!”
Neverson is a part of “The Millenium Tour,” which features a cease at MGM Grand Backyard Space on April 25, 2025.
A listening to is scheduled for Jan. 16 within the Las Vegas civil case.
To achieve investigative reporter Vanessa Murphy, e mail vmurphy@8newsnow.com.
