January 9, 2025
Trey Songz is asking a decide to toss out the $11 million default judgment his alleged battery sufferer gained final November.
Trey Songz’s try and throw out a $11 million default judgment to his alleged battery sufferer is being met with opposition.
Newly obtained court docket paperwork reveal that the 40-year-old singer has requested the judgment be overturned within the battery lawsuit filed by Tyrelle Dunn, In Contact Weekly reported. Nevertheless, Dunn, a Maryland Capitol police officer, is urging the court docket to reject the singer’s request to overturn the default judgment.
The judgment stems from Dunn’s lawsuit over an alleged encounter he had with Songz, actual identify Tremaine Neverson, when he went to save lots of his spouse from the singer’s lodge room at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas in 2021. In accordance with Dunn’s lawsuit, his spouse went to the lodge room to fulfill the singer however was as an alternative assaulted and prevented from maintaining her telephone.
“[Tyrelle’s] spouse was escorted by Defendant safety personnel to room 6014 the place she was instructed she would meet Trey Songz,” the lawsuit learn. “That whereas in room 6014, the plaintiff’s spouse was assaulted, tried to depart, and had her telephone taken away.”
Upon discovering the lodge room to save lots of his spouse, Dunn was allegedly assaulted by Music’z safety workforce and left with a fractured eye socket. Nevertheless, no prison fees have been filed in opposition to the “Say Aah” singer.
In November 2024, a Las Vegas decide entered the default judgment within the lawsuit Songz claimed he didn’t study till the decide’s ruling.
“[Trey] didn’t learn about this lawsuit till November 27, 2024, when he acquired Instagram messages from followers extending their assist after information broke about Dunn’s default judgment,” Songz’s legal professionals wrote in a movement.
“[Trey] promptly engaged civil protection counsel over the Thanksgiving vacation and filed this Movement to put aside the default judgment the subsequent week.”
The singer denies Dunn’s allegations and is requesting a day in court docket to defend his honor from the “large default judgment which was improperly obtained in an underlying case that [Trey] knew nothing about till every week previous to submitting this Movement,” his legal professionals said.
“The enforcement of this default judgment shall be devastating to [Trey] and can spoil his life,” they add.
Songz’s legal professionals additionally be aware the investigation Las Vegas police performed, which “discovered no wrongdoing by [Trey]” and led to him not going through prison fees. The singer additionally claims he was by no means correctly served Dunn’s lawsuit, however Dunn claims he was served the papers by a course of server.
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