Chris Brown files defamation lawsuit vs Warner Bros. over sexual assault allegations in docuseries
Chris Brown is suing Warner Bros. for $500 million (P29.2 billion) over a 2024 docuseries that detailed the sexual assault allegations he faced.
The R&B artist accused the producers of Chris Brown: A History of Violence of libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress through defamatory claims, according to a lawsuit obtained by Variety.
He also said the evidence presented to substantiate claims in the documentary are "completely false."
“To put it simply, this case is about the media putting their own profits over the truth,” the lawsuit read. “Since the beginning of October of 2024, Ample LLC and Warner Brothers were put on notice that they were promoting and publishing false information in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars and to the detriment of Chris Brown."
"Ultimately, on October 27, 2024, they aired ‘Chris Brown: A History of Violence’ (the ‘Documentary’), knowing that it was full of lies and deception and violating basic journalist principles.”
Brown's camp added that the claims of "Jane Doe," used in the documentary had been "discredited over and over" again and that she was a "perpetrator of intimate partner violence and aggressor herself."
"Mr. Brown has never been found guilty of any sex related crime... but this documentary states in every available fashion that he is a serial rapist and sexual abuser," the lawsuit stated.
Individuals who appeared in the documentary were also named as defendants in the lawsuit.
Brown is seeking $500 million in damages, which he said would be donated to victims of sexual abuse.
The suit recognized the singer's past mistakes, which he "publicly acknowledged and addressed by him in his 2017 documentary Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life." He has since "grown from those experiences, and his evolution speaks for itself," it read.
In 2009, Brown was convicted of beating Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time, who sustained several facial injuries.
Years later, the With You singer was involved in an altercation with rapper Frank Ocean in 2013, an alleged hit-and-run in Los Angeles, and an assault, false imprisonment, and battery charge by his former manager in 2016.
In 2022, he was sued for rape with the alleged victim he drugged and attacked her on a yacht at embattled rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs' home. Brown denied the allegations and submitted evidence indicating they had a consensual relationship. The charges were later dropped in August of that year.
A year later, he was sued for allegedly beating up a music producer at a club in London.
Brown and his crew were also sued for P2.9 billion for the alleged "brutal, violent assault' of four concertgoers during his The 11:11 tour.
