Chris Brown is suing Warner Bros. Et the makers of the “Chris Brown: A History of Violence” doblishes for defamation in a lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, that is worth at least $500 million.
The series, which premiered on Investigation Discovery in October, looks back at the various scandals the R&B hitmaker has had as well as accusations of rape against him. It also features the first interview with the anonymous Jane Doe who sued him in 2022, accusing him of drugging and raping her in 2020; her lawsuit said the alleged incident took place at a party on a yacht owned by Diddy. The lawsuit was tossed by a judge in August of 2022.
At trial, a copy of which has been received through TheWrap, Brown denies all reprehensible acts and accuses WB and the docuseries makers of “promoting and publishing false data in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars and dollars and dollars and dollars and dollars and dollars and dollars and dollars and dollars and dollars at the expense of Chris Brown,” and says the documentary airs in spite of themselves “knowing that he completed lies and deception and violation of fundamental journalistic principles. “
The trial indicates that the defendant was “supplied through the fact that his data were false, and that his narration” Jane Doe “had not only been discredited many times, but in reality it was one of the violence and the intimate companies aggressors “
The trial also states that Brown “has never been discovered that he blames a crime similar to sex (rape, sexual drums, sexual aggression, etc. ), but this documentary indicates in everything that must have a tactical that is a rapist in the series and a sexual attacker.
The suit also brings up the Jane Doe’s personal history, asserting she herself had a “history of violence and erratic behavior” which “should have raised red flags for any responsible journalist,” along with a copy of what it says is a restraining order her ex-boyfriend filed against her which said “she physically assaulted him, threatened him with a knife and engaged in online harassment.”
Brown’s demand states that the woman arrested for this habit through LAPD romantic “.
The demand also appoints several other people who gave the impression in the documentary as defendants, and says that “a portion” of the $ 500 million “will be given to the survivors of sexual abuse” if Brown prevails.
In a Brown Instagram Feed, his lawyer, Levi McCathern, said: “This case is about protector of truth . . . Despite the evidence that refuted their claims, the manufacturers of this documentary deliberately promoted false and defamatory information, knowing to know their moral obligations as journalists.