More sexual encounters continued, with Gerstilde-Diaman sometimes holding her down and refusing to use a condom despite her protests, the lawsuit states. At the same time, he made business promises to her, suggesting he could make her an opening act on Beyoncé’s next tour, the lawsuit says.
According to the complaint, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant then became more controlling and violent: He put her up in an Atlanta hotel, had security guards monitor her every move and berated her unless she contacted him regularly. After Ms. Mangro complained about bed bugs in her hotel room, Mr. Gastilde-Diamante became furious and told her she was a disloyal “brat,” Ms. Mangro’s court papers said. , and blamed his attention on her for causing delays in Beyoncé’s next album.
He continually supplied her with alcohol and marijuana and at one point forced Ms. Mangro to have sex with him while he recorded the video, later threatening to show the video to others, the complaint states. The complaint alleges that during sexual intercourse, Gastilde-Diamante often placed a gun next to her, which she interpreted as a warning.
One day, at a movie theater, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant asked Ms. Mangroe to perform oral sex on him, the complaint states. After she refused, he became angry and forced her to have sex in front of other theater patrons. “This was a physically painful encounter,” the lawsuit states. Later that day, Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant took Ms. Mangroe to his van and again forced sex on her, pushing her to the ground and forcing her to perform sex acts, the lawsuit said. He covered her mouth and nose with his hands to prevent her from breathing.
Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant signed Mangroe to his label, Contra Paris, and secured her a distribution deal with Sony’s major label, Epic Records. By the summer of 2015, Ms. Mangro was trying to break free from Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant’s control and prepare to release an album, but her efforts were unsuccessful, court documents said.
According to the complaint, Ms. Mangroe reported Mr. Gesteelde-Diamant’s abusive behavior to an Epic executive, who told her “she needed to find a way to work with Dream again.” In July 2016, according to the complaint, Ms. Mangroe She was told Epic would fire her because Mr Gesteelde-Diamant, who still controls her artist contract, had not delivered music. Epic is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
