Records Reveal What May Have Happened to California Ballroom Performer Korey "Koreyo Kreame" Wynne
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For years, people across Black gay creative circles and ballroom-adjacent spaces have asked the same question in private: what happened to Koreyo Kreame?
Kreame, legally Korey Wynne, was a real person with a real presence. He wasn’t just “someone from a movie.” He was known, cared for, and remembered by people who watched him move through community life in the Sacramento–Bay Area and later in Los Angeles, where underground performance culture and Black LGBTQ+ life overlap.
And then he was gone from public view.
Now, newly visible City and litigation records offer a possible explanation, even though the full story remains incomplete and we have no direct connection to Wynne’s family.
L.A. City Council approved up to $250,000 tied to his case
Los Angeles City Council authorized a settlement payout of up to $250,000 in the case Korey Wynne, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al. City records show the settlement authorization was adopted in open session on April 9, 2025, under Council File 25-0224.
The City’s official paperwork refers broadly to an “incident involving members of LAPD” dated August 10, 2016, but does not provide detailed narrative in the public summary.
What the lawsuit alleges happened in custody
A case background summary reflecting allegations in the operative complaint states that Wynne was incarcerated on August 10, 2016 in a jail cell at the LAPD Metropolitan Detention Center, where he allegedly attempted suicide and suffered an anoxic brain injury.
The same summary states Wynne is an incompetent adult and brings the action through a guardian ad litem. It alleges the detention conditions posed serious suicide hazards for mentally ill inmates and that defendants knew or should have known about the heightened risk environment. It further alleges negligence, including a failure to provide immediate medical care after Wynne was found.
The operative complaint described in the summary lists causes of action including negligence and failure to summon immediate medical care under California law.
These are allegations in civil litigation, not a court’s final factual findings. A settlement authorization is not, by itself, an admission of wrongdoing. But it does confirm the City approved public funds to resolve legal claims connected to Wynne’s name.
The cultural link: “Leave It on the Floor,” fiction, and a real person
Wynne is also connected in public conversation to the ballroom-centered film Leave It on the Floor, which features a fictional ballroom world and a fictional house structure. The House of Eminence is part of the film’s storytelling.
That matters because sometimes communities use the language of the movie as shorthand, even when the person is real. Koreyo Kreame was real, and people cared about him, whether they knew him personally, knew him through nightlife and performance spaces, or recognized him through cultural work that helped document a world that mainstream media usually ignores.
Why this hits Black gay communities in two regions
This story lands across two regions for a reason. The Black LGBTQ+ creative pipeline between Sacramento–Bay and Los Angeles is real. People move for opportunity, safety, art, chosen family, and survival. When someone disappears from that network with no public explanation, the questions don’t fade, they echo.
And too often, when the person is Black, queer, and connected to underground culture, the official world doesn’t fill in the blanks. The community is left to do it.
What we know, what we don’t
What we can support from records and case summaries:
L.A. City Council authorized up to $250,000 tied to Korey Wynne, et al. v. City of Los Angeles
The City ties the incident date to August 10, 2016
Case summaries reflecting complaint allegations describe an in-custody suicide attempt and resulting injury, along with negligence-based claims
What we do not know from what we have:
Full verified details of the incident beyond the allegations
Any statement from Wynne, his family, or representatives
Whether any additional terms or findings are public
We do not claim a relationship with Wynne’s family and we do not have private medical information. This reporting is based on public records and case materials summarized publicly.
A name, a record, and a human being
This is not a celebrity update. This is a public record intersecting with a community’s unanswered concern about a Black gay man whose presence mattered.
For people in NorCal and Los Angeles who remember Koreyo Kreame, the question has never been about drama. It’s been about humanity:
Where did he go, and what happened to him?
This case may not answer everything. But it’s more than silence.
If you or someone you know is struggling or thinking about self-harm, call or text 988 in the U.S. for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
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