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Chris Brown claims a 2024 documentary targeted on the sexual-assault and -abuse allegations in opposition to him is defamatory. The singer is suing Warner Bros. Discovery for $500 million over Chris Brown: A Historical past of Violence, Rolling Stone reported. Brown’s lawsuit accuses Warner Bros. of “selling and publishing false info of their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and {dollars},” claiming the documentary “was stuffed with lies and deception.” The lawsuit additionally names manufacturing firm Ample Leisure in addition to a Jane Doe who participated within the documentary; she beforehand sued Brown in January 2022, claiming he raped her in 2020 on a yacht docked at Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Miami residence. “Mr. Brown has by no means been discovered responsible of any intercourse associated crime … however this documentary states in each accessible trend that he’s a serial rapist and sexual abuser,” the lawsuit says. Brown’s lawyer advised Rolling Stone that the case was about “defending the reality.”
This isn’t the primary time Brown has sued over a rape allegation. In 2019, he filed a lawsuit in opposition to a lady in Paris who accused him of rape. On the time, he stated her allegations have been “in opposition to my character and morals.”