Chris Brown: A History Of Violence, a documentary that alleged the disgraced singer has a pattern of abusive behavior and sexual assault, was released in October 2024. The “Kiss Kiss” singer, 35, did not immediately have a public reaction, but on January 22, 2025, his team announced that he would be suing a variety of parties, including Warner Bros. Discovery, for a hefty fee.
Brown is receiving $500 million in damages from Warner Bros. , production company Ample Entertainment and one of the other unnamed people who claimed Brown raped her in the documentary.
The BBC reports that, according to the court filing, Brown’s legal team told the makers that the opposing fees were “misleading” and “discredited,” and that the company’s resolution to release the documentary that they were “prioritizing profits than profits than profits that journalistic integrity. “Brown’s team accuses the documentary’s makers of “defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. “
Brown has never been convicted of any crime related to sex, declared himself guilty of assaulting his then girlfriend, Rihanna, in 2009 and turned five years of probation.
The documentary deepened several accusations against the singer of “Forever”, adding those presented before the courts such as “Jane Doe” in 2022. Jane Doe accused Brown of drug and rape her while they were in a yacht owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs. “, which lately faces more than one hundred positions of sexual assault. In 2022, the case was dismissed through” lack of processing “when” no one from any of the sides appeared at an audience. “The Hollywood Reporter With the former lawyer of Jane Doe, Ariel Mitchell, who explained that Jane Doe had not shown her legal team any text message between her and Brown.
Since the release of the documentary, Mitchell has to return to being Jane Doe. THR reported that Mitchell maintains that Jane Doe’s claims are true.
“I am at that time,” said the lawyer, adding that his decision to leave the case in 2022 “is not a matter of the veracity of his statements. It is simply how he forgot to provide us with all the requested evidence. “
Other alleged victims that appear in the documentary series include Brown’s ex -girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, who received a restriction order against Brown in 2017 (Tran said that the singer “hit him twice in the stomach” and “pushed her down On the sides “) Liziane Gutiérrez also presented, who said Brown pushed him in the face at a party in 2016 as a retaliation for his recording on his phone.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to https://www.rainn.org/
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