Extra sexual encounters continued, the swimsuit says, with Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant typically holding her down and refusing to make use of a condom regardless of her protests. On the similar time, the swimsuit says, he made enterprise guarantees to her, suggesting he might make her the opening act for Beyoncé’s subsequent tour.
In keeping with the grievance, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant then grew to become extra controlling and violent: He positioned her in an Atlanta resort, had his safety workers monitor her actions, and berated her until she commonly checked in with him. After Ms. Mangroe complained about bedbugs in her resort room, her court docket papers say, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant exploded in anger, telling her she was a disloyal “brat” and blaming the eye he spent on her for delays to Beyoncé’s subsequent album.
He plied her with alcohol and marijuana, the grievance says, and as soon as pressured Ms. Mangroe to have intercourse with him whereas he recorded it, and later threatened to indicate the footage to different folks. Throughout intercourse, the grievance says, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant typically positioned a gun subsequent to her, which she noticed as a warning.
At a movie show someday, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant requested Ms. Mangroe to carry out oral intercourse on him, the grievance says. After she stated no, he grew to become offended and compelled her to have intercourse, in view of the opposite theater patrons. “It was a bodily painful encounter,” the grievance says. Later that very same day, the swimsuit says, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant took Ms. Mangroe to his van and once more pressured her to have intercourse, pinning her down and inserting his palms over her mouth and nostril, leaving her unable to breathe.
Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant signed Ms. Mangroe to his report label, Contra Paris, and organized for a distribution deal for her with Epic Data, a serious label owned by Sony. The court docket papers say that by the summer time of 2015, Ms. Mangroe was making an attempt to flee from Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant’s management and put together for the discharge of an album, however her efforts had been unsuccessful.
In keeping with the grievance, Ms. Mangroe reported Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant’s abuse to an Epic govt, who advised her that “she wanted to determine a strategy to work with Dream once more.” In July 2016, in line with the grievance, Ms. Mangroe was advised that Epic was dropping her as a result of Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant, who nonetheless managed her artist contract, had not delivered music. Epic can also be named as a defendant within the swimsuit.
