Chris Brown is unhappy with the way sexual assault allegations were “portrayed” in a documentary called “A History of Violence,” and is suing Warner Bros. Discovery and Sufficient Entertainment for “promoting and distributing false information and causing harm in pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and money.”
However, a judge has now dismissed the $500 million lawsuit entirely in favor of the makers of the documentary that detailed years of abuse by Chris Brown. As Judge Colin Leis noted in his statement, the media piece the singer mocked was “full of lies and deceit,” but was deemed “a ‘fair and truthful’ report of the statements, judicial record and proceedings” by the court, which “personally watched the entire documentary.”
Brown’s main controversy over the presentation of evidence relates to the 2020 case in which the singer allegedly raped a woman on a yacht owned by Diddy. According to Brown, the survivor himself had a history of violence and withheld key text messages when reporting the incident to Miami police. To Brown, the woman’s statements were “inconsistent.”
“The documentary cites numerous inconsistencies in plaintiffs’ notes, including the presence of text messages,” the judge wrote. Additionally, the judge rejected Brown’s claim that he was defamed by highlighting an article by writer Scaachi Koul in which he was quoted as saying that Chris Brown “has a tendency to punch women in the face.”
The judge dismissed the request, saying Brown himself “has admitted to assaulting singer Rihanna.” While the lawsuit would have been a noble matter, Brown’s case appears to have no merit. The story was first reported by Billboard.
