LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Tremaine Neverson, also known as ‘Trey Songz,’ claimed in newly filed court documents he was unaware of a lawsuit filed against him despite a reporter reaching out to an attorney who said he represented the singer more than one year ago.
The 8 News Now Investigators first reported on the more than $11 million default judgment against Neverson in a Las Vegas court on Nov. 25.
“The enforcement of this default judgment will be devastating to Neverson and will ruin his life,” Neverson’s attorneys wrote in a Dec. 6 motion.
The plaintiff, Tyrelle Dunn, alleged Neverson and his security guards beat him after he tried to rescue his wife who reported being held against her will at The Cosmopolitan on Nov. 28, 2021.
Clark County District Court Judge Jacob Reynolds ordered the $11.2 million default judgment on Oct. 10 which included nearly $28,000 for medical expenses, $5 million for pain and suffering, $5 million for punitive damages, and $1.2 for prejudgment interest.
“Neverson did not know about this lawsuit until November 27, 2024, when he received Instagram messages from fans extending their support after news broke about Dunn’s default judgment,” Neverson’s motion stated. “Neverson deserves to have his day in court to defend himself, rather than being subjected to a massive default judgment which was improperly obtained in an underlying case that Neverson knew nothing about until a week prior to filing this motion.”
However, a reporter emailed attorney Mitch Shuster on Oct. 11, 2023, asking if he represented Neverson.
Schuster responded, “I do.”
The reporter responded the following day, “I am reaching out about the lawsuit he is facing in Las Vegas about an incident in November 2021 at The Cosmopolitan,” and additionally followed up later in the day.
Schuster replied, “No comment.”
While Dunn’s attorneys said Neverson was served through gate guards at his home, Neverson’s attorneys argued service was not properly effectuated under Nevada or California law.
Neverson also categorically denies the allegations, according to the motion.
Dunn wrote in an affidavit that he suffered fractures to both eye sockets, and injuries to his nose, face, ribs, stomach, ear, and head, and missed more than a month of work as a Maryland Capitol police officer.
“Plaintiff’s wife was escorted by Defendant security personnel to room 6014 where she was told she would meet Trey Songz,” the lawsuit alleged. “That while in room 6014, plaintiff’s wife was assaulted, tried to leave and had her phone taken away.”
Dunn began searching for his wife and walked toward the room, according to the complaint. Dunn heard his wife screaming for help and reporting she was being held against her will, the complaint stated. This is when Dunn said that he was attacked.
“The attack has had a profound and everyday impact on my life. I still have the scarring, and suffer emotionally from the attack,” Dunn wrote. “I think about the attack every day when I see the injuries to my face and body.”
Neverson claimed he defended himself from Dunn, and then his “security guards grabbed Dunn and escorted him away, where an altercation apparently occurred,” according to his motion.
Las Vegas Metro police responded to the incident. In April 2022, police said that Trey Songz would not be charged.
“The LVMPD has concluded the investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Tremaine Neverson and determined that no criminal charges will be filed. If any new evidence comes to light, the case will be reopened for further investigation,” the department said in a statement.
Neverson alleged it was “a set-up orchestrated by Dunn,” in the motion.
Dunn accused Neverson and his security of battery, assault, and negligence.
The Cosmopolitan was also named as a defendant in the initial complaint.
Neverson is best known for 2010 hits, “Bottoms Up,” and “Say Aah.” He referred to himself as a “prominent R&B singer,” in an affidavit.
Neverson has faced previous allegations of sexual and physical assaults.
In June 2023, a woman filed a lawsuit against Neverson alleging he pulled down her bikini top to expose her breast in front of a crowd of people including her co-workers at an event in Connecticut in 2013.
“Plaintiff, while nervously laughing to mask her shock and humiliation, immediately pulled her top back on and prepared for another assault, holding her arm over her chest for an extended period of time,” the complaint filed in the Central District of California stated.
The incident is captured on video.
The month prior, Neverson pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct violation after he was accused of assault in New York.
In April 2023, a woman filed a lawsuit in California alleging Neverson sexually assaulted her at his home in 2016.
“Songz repeatedly asked plaintiff if he could ‘get that ass,’ meaning have anal sex,” the woman alleged. “Plaintiff repeatedly told defendant Songz no in response to defendant Songz’ requests.”
The woman claimed the singer then threw her to the ground and brutally sexually assaulted her. The woman ran out of the home, called a Lyft, and the driver, who noticed that the woman was in distress rerouted the ride and took her to the hospital, the lawsuit alleged.
The medical center contacted Burbank Police, but the woman did not cooperate with police because she was terrified of Neverson, according to the complaint.
On at least two occasions, the woman and singer happened to be at the same events, the complaint stated.
“Songz would shout ‘get that slut out of here’ and create an environment so terrifying that Plaintiff would be forced to leave,” the lawsuit alleged.
At a New Year’s Eve party, Neverson saw the woman and started screaming that she was a “slut” and a liar,” and then his security detail assaulted the woman and told her to leave, according to the complaint.
The woman said that she relocated to another state because the singer’s terror was so severe.
In December 2021, Dylan Gonzalez, a former University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball player tweeted, “Trey Songz is a rapist.”
“With what seems like endlessly reoccurring news of the alleged sexual assaults committed by Trey Songz, I am forced to repeatedly relive in my mind, and suffer anew, the long-suppressed horror and unbearable PTSD of my rape by his very hands at a well-known Las Vegas hotel,” she said in a statement. “I want to send my love, strength, and hope to all who are victims of sexual assault and its fatal nature. You are not alone.”
In 2020, a woman filed a lawsuit accusing Neverson of sexual assault and battery at a Miami night club in 2018.
The unnamed woman claimed that he forcefully and inappropriately touched her without her consent.
The woman and her friends had spent New Year’s Eve celebrating at the home of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs when Trey Songz invited them to EllEVEN nightclub, the complaint stated.
The unnamed woman stated another woman had confided in her Neverson had also sexually assaulted her earlier that night.
In 2018, two men filed a lawsuit against Neverson in the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division. Robert Avery was working crowd control as a sergeant for the Detroit Police Department and Andrew Potter was a professional photographer with credentials.
Neverson became irate, hurled heavy equipment off of the stage and into the crowd, destroyed items on the stage, and picked up a microphone and threw it at Potter, according to the complaint.
In a dressing room, Neverson was combative and shouted racially derogatory expletives to officers, the lawsuit alleged. Neverson struck Avery in the face with a closed fist and then caused Avery to hit his head on concrete and injure his hip, the complaint stated.
The complaint also referred to videos posted by Neverson showing disdain for law enforcement days before the incident in which he yelled, “[Expletive] the police!”
Neverson is part of “The Millenium Tour,” which includes a stop at MGM Grand Garden Area on April 25, 2025.
A hearing is scheduled for Jan. 16 in the Las Vegas civil case.
To reach investigative reporter Vanessa Murphy, email vmurphy@8newsnow.com.
