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Trey Songz hit with $20m lawsuit for sexual assault

By Fareeda Abdul Aziz
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Trey Songz has been accused of sexual assault in connection with a 2016 incident at a party in Los Angeles in a $20 million lawsuit.

The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe in the suit, said the 37-year-old musical artist forced her to have anal sex against her consent, according to court docs reviewed by TMZ. 

The woman said that prior to the March 24, 2016 incident, she'd had consensual sexual relations with the R&B artist, whose full name is Tremaine Aldon Neverson. She said they were at a party at a house in Los Angeles Songz invited her to when they went upstairs for what she thought would be a consensual encounter.

The Virginia-born entertainer had repeatedly pestered the woman if he could 'get that a**' as they headed up the staircase of the home, the woman said in court docs, adding that she had told him no and to cease asking.

She told the court that in the wake of the traumatic incident, she gathered her clothing and exited the premises to take an Uber ride away.

The woman said in court docs that the Uber driver observed she had been in distress upon entering the vehicle and took her to a nearby hospital, where medical professionals performed a sexual assault exam on her that revealed 'severe anal tearing that could require surgery.'

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Police were called, but the woman said she did not reveal that Songz was her attacker due to that she was 'in shock and fearing for her life,' the woman said in court docs.

The woman is represented by lawyers Ariel Mitchell and George Vrabeck, who are involved in two other cases, in Miami and Nevada, in which Songz is accused of sexual assault.

Mitchell has denied allegations by Songz's legal team that she tried to bribe a witness in the Florida-based case, according to TMZ, which reported that the singer's lawyers looked to have the Miami case dismissed in connection with the witness tampering claims.

In the Miami case, according to legal docs reviewed by the outlet, a woman who identified herself as Jauhara Jeffries said that Songz had put his finger in her vagina without her consent while she was dancing on a couch at the nightclub E11VEN on New Year's Eve of 2017.

Songz's lawyer Jeffrey Neiman told the court that a female witness (who has not been publicly named) said that Songz did not do what he was accused of in the Miami incident; and that Mitchell unsuccessfully tried to recruit her as a co-plaintiff against Songz, and change her account of events with the potential for a settlement that ranged between $100,000 and $200,000.

Mitchell told the outlet Tuesday in response that she and Vrabeck would 'not be deterred by bullying or intimidation tactics and will continue our pursuit of Justice for sexual assault victims of Trey Songz.'

Daily Mail