Chris Brown sues Warner Bros. for $500M over sexual assault allegations

Chris Brown has filed a suit against Warner Bros. for $500 million, alleging their Investigation Discovery docuseries Chris Brown: A History of Violence features mendacious intersexual allegations against the 35-year-old singer.

In a lawsuit, filed Tuesday successful Los Angeles Superior Court, Brown alleges that producers for the October 2024 docuseries included discredited claims of intersexual assault. The suit accuses the producers down the docuseries of libel and intentional infliction of affectional distress done defamatory claims made against him.

The With You vocalist accused producers of basing the full bid connected a Jane Doe lawsuit, which his suit claims was dismissed “because it was afloat of lies.” The suit besides claims that the grounds utilized against Brown by “Jane Doe” was “discredited implicit and over” and says that she was “a perpetrator of intimate spouse unit and aggressor herself.”

Brown’s squad alleges that “Jane Doe” fabricated her claims against the Under The Influence singer and accidental the producers of the docuseries should person known erstwhile the uncovered substance messages, revealed by instrumentality enforcement, “exposed her dishonesty.”

“To enactment it simply, this lawsuit is astir the media putting their ain profits implicit the truth,” the suit reads. “Since the opening of October of 2024, Ample LLC and Warner Brothers were enactment connected announcement that they were promoting and publishing mendacious accusation successful their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars and to the detriment of Chris Brown.

“Ultimately, connected October 27, 2024, they aired Chris Brown: A History of Violence’(the ‘Documentary’), knowing that it was afloat of lies and deception and violating basal writer principles.”

The suit states that Brown has ne'er been convicted of immoderate enactment crimes, but the docuseries labels him arsenic a “serial rapist” and “sexual abuser.”

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“Mr. Brown has ne'er been recovered blameworthy of immoderate enactment related crime,” the suit reads. “But this documentary states successful each disposable manner that helium is simply a serial rapist and intersexual abuser.”

The suit goes connected to admit that Brown has made mistakes successful the past and they person been “publicly acknowledged and addressed by him successful his 2017 documentary, Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life.” His lawyers accidental that the Sensational singer has worked hard astatine “redeeming” his reputation.

Brown pleaded blameworthy to the felony battle successful 2009 of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. He completed home unit counselling and 5 years’ probation successful that lawsuit successful 2015.

“Mr. Brown has grown from those experiences, and his improvement speaks for itself,” the suit reads. “This caller accumulation ignores that growth, choosing alternatively to repackage stale accusations portion amplifying them with demonstrable falsehoods.”

Brown is suing Warner Bros. Discovery and accumulation institution Ample Entertainment for defamation, intentional infliction of affectional distress and utilizing his sanction and likeness for promotional purposes.

He is seeking a assemblage proceedings and astatine slightest $500 cardinal successful damages, of which helium pledges to donate a information to intersexual maltreatment victims if damages are awarded.

As of this writing, Warner Bros. has not commented publically connected the lawsuit.