Chris Brown is suing Warner Bros. Discovery, claiming the outlet defamed him by revealing the R&B singer’s long history of sexually abusing women in a 2024 documentary.
Warner Bros. Discovery Channel and Ample Entertainment, the production companies of “Chris Brown: A History of Violence,” are accused of “promoting and publishing false information in pursuit of their goals” in a complaint filed Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Los Angeles Superior Court. numbers, clicks, downloads and money, which was bad for the R&B singer “because he knew it was filled with lies and deceit and violated basic journalistic principles.”
“They did so only after they were presented with evidence that their information was false, and that the ‘Jane Doe’ they told the story about was not only discredited time and time again, but was actually a perpetrator and perpetrator of intimate partner violence,” the lawsuit reads. The aggressor himself. “Mr. Brown was never convicted of any sex-related crimes…but this documentary shows in every way possible that he was a serial rapist and sexual abuser.
Jane Doe, who made sexual assault accusations against Brown in the documentary, is also named as a defendant in the indictment, which accuses the woman of “completely ignoring the facts and trying to gain fame and fortune — all at the expense of Chris Brown and his reputation” in the past He spent ten years trying to redeem himself.
Brown’s lawyers wrote that the “sensational, baseless and defamatory allegations” in the documentary have been dismissed by courts or are completely fabricated. The lawsuit further alleges that Jane Doe filed a “frivolous civil lawsuit” against Brown in January 2022, accusing him of sexual assault and battery, but her claims “were determined to be completely fabricated, leading her attorneys to withdraw” that same year in August. The case was dismissed in March after a Miami Beach police detective discovered text messages that exposed her dishonesty.
The suit’s central allegation is that the documentary’s production company continued to release it even though it knew it “contained false statements and violated professional standards for journalists”; Brown’s attorneys now claim that this “dangerous consequences to Mr. Brown’s reputation, career and business opportunities” Caused significant damage”.
Brown is seeking $500 million in damages, “a portion of which will be donated to sexual abuse survivors.”
