Chris Brown has sued Warner Bros. Discovery, claiming the media home defamed him by exposing the R&B singer’s prolonged historical past of sexually abusing ladies in a 2024 documentary.
Warner Bros. Discovery and Ample Leisure, the manufacturing firm behind Chris Brown: A Historical past of Violence, is accused within the grievance, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom on Tuesday, January 21, of “selling and publishing false info of their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads, and {dollars} and to the detriment” of the R&B singer, “understanding that it was filled with lies and deception and violating primary journalistic rules.”
“They did so after being offered proof that their info was false, and their storytelling ‘Jane Doe’ had not solely been discredited again and again however was in truth a perpetrator of intimate companions violence and aggressor herself,” reads the lawsuit, which was filed by attorneys Arnold Shokouchi and Levi McCathern. “Mr. Brown has by no means been discovered responsible of any intercourse associated crime…however this documentary states in each obtainable style that he’s a serial rapist and sexual abuser.”
The Jane Doe who made sexual assault accusations in opposition to Brown within the documentary can be named as a defendant within the grievance, which alleges the lady “fully disregarded the details in an try for fame and fortune — all at the price of Chris Brown and the status he has labored diligently in redeeming over the past decade.”
The “sensationalized, unfounded, and defamatory allegations” within the documentary “have been discredited, dismissed by the courts, or outright fabricated,” Brown’s legal professionals write. The lawsuit additional alleges that the Jane Doe filed a “frivolous civil lawsuit” in opposition to Brown in January 2022 during which she accused him of sexual assault and battery — however that her claims “had been decided to be completely fabricated, resulting in the withdrawal of her attorneys and dismissal of the case” that very same August “after a Miami Seaside Police detective uncovered textual content messages…that uncovered her dishonesty.”
The lawsuit’s central cost is that the documentary’s manufacturing corporations proceeded with its launch regardless of understanding it “contained false claims and violated journalist skilled requirements”; Brown’s attorneys now assert that this “precipitated important hurt to Mr. Brown’s status, profession, and enterprise alternatives.”
Brown is asking for $500 million in damages, “a portion of which shall be donated to survivors of sexual abuse.”