Chris Brown has filed a $500 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to the producers of the Investigation Discovery docuseries “Chris Brown: A History of Violence,” based on a brand new report.
Within the grievance, the “With You” singer, 35, accuses Warner Bros. Discovery, Ample Leisure and others of selling and publishing defamatory claims, together with that he raped a lady in 2020, regardless of being provided with “proof” that counters the allegations, per TMZ.
Brown’s lawsuit alleges that the Jane Doe on the coronary heart of the “A History of Violence” documentary has been discredited a number of occasions and provides that she beforehand withdrew a go well with she introduced in opposition to him.
Nonetheless, different reporting in regards to the docuseries on the time of its launch in October 2024 states that the Jane Doe’s $20 million lawsuit introduced in opposition to Brown in 2022 was dismissed that very same yr by a choose who cited lack of prosecution.
The lady had made a report back to Miami Seaside Police however, based on “A History of Violence,” they concluded that her claims have been unfounded and that no possible trigger existed to cost Brown.
In his lawsuit, Brown additionally claims that he has by no means been convicted “of any sex related crime” and blasts the documentary’s producers for dubbing him “a serial rapist and a sexual abuser” within the collection.
Based on TMZ, the singer goes on to assert the producers ignored info and selected as a substitute to defame him and his popularity, which he says he spent over ten years repairing within the wake of his 2009 home violence incident along with his ex-girlfriend Rihanna (Brown pleaded responsible to felony assault in June of that yr).
Asserting that he’s taken accountability for his “past mistakes” and has grown from them, Brown says “A History of Violence” pushes an outdated narrative “in the name of fame and fortune,” as TMZ places it.
Brown is in search of $500 million in damages, alleging the docuseries has negatively impacted his popularity, profession, and enterprise alternatives, per the court docket docs. He reportedly plans to donate a portion of the whopping sum to victims of sexual abuse if awarded.
“Chris Brown: A History of Violence” aired on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned community Investigation Discovery in October 2024.
The Jane Doe talked about in Brown’s lawsuit offered on-camera testimony within the collection. Although seen solely in silhouette to guard her identification, she mentioned that she was talking out to “shed light on what really happened.”
“Unless people start speaking up and people actually stop victim blaming the people that do speak up, then that’s the only way he can be stopped,” the accuser mentioned.
“Chris Brown raped me. And I can say that, and I know it for a fact instead of telling myself that it wasn’t,” Doe added. “It was rape.”
A lawyer for Brown advised Investigation Discovery on the time that Doe’s claims have been “entirely fabricated” and blasted the docuseries as “malicious and false.”
The Publish has reached out to representatives for Brown, Warner Bros. Discovery and Ample Leisure for remark.
