Chris Brown has filed a $500 million lawsuit towards Warner Bros. Discovery, accusing the corporate of defamation in a latest docuseries.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, January 21, in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, Brown, 35, claimed that WBD and manufacturing firm Ample Leisure knowingly included false allegations of sexual assault towards him in Investigation Discovery’s Chris Brown A Historical past of Violence, per a number of retailers together with Selection and The Hollywood Reporter, which obtained the docs.
Brown’s attorneys mentioned {that a} lady who accused him of a 2020 rape, recognized solely as “Jane Doe” in this system, had beforehand been “discredited” and was “a perpetrator of intimate associate violence and aggressor herself.” (Doe’s 2022 lawsuit accusing Brown of sexual assault and battery on a yacht owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs was dismissed, the submitting mentioned.)
The “Without end” singer’s attorneys argued, “To place it merely, this case is in regards to the media placing their very own income over the reality,” per docs obtained by Selection. “Because the starting of October of 2024, Ample LLC and Warner Brothers have been placed on discover that they have been selling and publishing false data of their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and {dollars} and to the detriment of Chris Brown. Finally, on October 27, 2024, they aired ‘Chris Brown: A Historical past of Violence’ (the ‘Documentary’), figuring out that it was filled with lies and deception and violating primary journalist rules.”
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Pictures Chris Brown‘s 2009 arrest for bodily assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna was just the start of his ongoing authorized points. Brown rose to stardom after releasing his studio album in 2005. His second album, which was launched two years later, featured his hit music “Kiss Kiss,” which put Brown on the trail to being […]
Brown is accusing WBD and codefendant Ample of libel and intentional infliction of emotional misery. Us Weekly has reached out to WBD and Ample for remark.
“This case is about defending the reality,” Brown’s lawyer, Levi McCathern, mentioned in a press release to Folks and Deadline. “Regardless of being supplied with proof disproving their claims, the producers of this documentary deliberately promoted false and defamatory data, knowingly disregarding their moral obligations as journalists. Their actions undermine not solely Mr. Brown’s decade-long efforts to rebuild his life but in addition the credibility of true survivors of violence.”
Investigation Discovery’s latest tell-all addressed Chris Brown‘s historical past of abuse allegations — so why is Sean “Diddy” Combs talked about a number of instances within the documentary? Chris Brown: A Historical past of Violence, which aired on Sunday, October 25, is a part of the community’s No Excuse for Abuse marketing campaign, which shines a light-weight at advanced dynamics of intimate […]
Within the go well with, Brown’s attorneys famous his previous authorized troubles, together with a 2009 assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna, however mentioned the singer “publicly acknowledged and addressed” his errors in a 2017 documentary and has since “grown from these experiences, and his evolution speaks for itself.”
