Trey Songz Settles Sexual Assault Lawsuit Over New Year’s Eve Club Incident

Trey Songz has reached a confidential colony to extremity a suit claiming helium sexually assaulted a pistillate astatine a Miami nightclub connected New Year’s Eve successful 2018.

The R&B vocalist (Tremaine Neverson) was facing battle and artillery claims from Jauhara Jeffries, who alleges Songz non-consensually penetrated her with his fingers portion they were dancing astatine E11even Miami successful the aboriginal hours of Jan. 1, 2018. Songz denied ever assaulting Jeffries.

The brace had been gearing up to spell to proceedings adjacent period alongside E11even Miami, which was accused successful Jeffries’ suit of negligently serving intoxicant to Songz contempt his nationalist past of substance abuse. But caller docket entries successful Florida tribunal accidental Jeffries, Songz and the nine person each reached a colony to extremity the litigation.

“This tribunal has been advised that the substance has been settled arsenic to each parties and therefore, it is hereby ordered and adjudged that this lawsuit is dismissed,” wrote Judge Antonio Arzola connected Tuesday (Sept. 9). “The tribunal reserves jurisdiction to enforce the colony and to participate orders indispensable to this enforcement.”

The presumption of the colony person not been made public, arsenic is emblematic for out-of-court resolutions. Jeffries’ lawyer, Ariel Mitchell, tells Billboard connected Wednesday (Sept. 10), “I tin lone remark that the substance has been resolved.”

Reps for Songz and E11even Miami did not instantly instrumentality requests for comment.

Songz has faced numerous allegations of intersexual misconduct implicit the years. The vocalist antecedently settled claims that helium assaulted a woman astatine a Los Angeles location enactment successful 2016, and he’s acceptable to spell to proceedings adjacent twelvemonth implicit a abstracted Las Vegas incidental from 2021.

Jeffries archetypal filed her suit successful 2020, and it had been scheduled to spell to proceedings successful Miami this October earlier a colony was reached. The lawsuit had been muddled by allegations from Songz’s ineligible squad that Mitchell, Jeffries’ attorney, attempted to bribe a witness into backing her client’s mentation of the events astatine E11even Miami.

Mitchell has powerfully denied these claims, and Judge Arzola yet declined to contented penalties earlier this twelvemonth aft uncovering that determination wasn’t conclusive grounds of bribery successful what amounted to a “classic ‘she-said versus she-said’ scenario.”

However, Mitchell is facing disciplinary enactment from the Florida Bar for falsely telling media outlets, including Billboard, backmost successful 2022, that she’d already been cleared of wrongdoing related to the bribery allegations. In reality, says the Florida Bar, Mitchell was inactive nether probe astatine the clip of these property comments.