Chris Brown sues Warner Bros. for $500 million due to docuseries
Singer Chris Brown sues Warner Bros. for $500 million over allegations of sexual abuse in the Investigation Discovery docuseries “Chris Brown: A History of Violence.”
In the lawsuit obtained by VarietyBrown accuses the producers behind the docuseries, including Warner Bros. and Ample, of defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress through defamatory claims made against him in “A History of Violence.” He also claims that the evidence provided to support their claims is completely false.
“Simply put, this case is about the media putting its own profits ahead of the truth,” the lawsuit reads. “Since early October 2024, Ample LLC and Warner Brothers were made aware that they were promoting and publishing false information in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars to the detriment of Chris Brown. Ultimately, on October 27, 2024, they broadcast ‘Chris Brown: A History of Violence’ (the ‘Documentary’), knowing it was full of lies and deception and violated fundamental journalistic principles.”
Warner Bros. did not respond immediately Variety‘s request for comment.
The lawsuit goes on to allege that “Jane Doe’s” claims, which were used as evidence against Brown in the document, had been “discredited over and over again,” and that she was “a perpetrator of intimate partner violence and an aggressor herself.”
The lawsuit acknowledges that the Grammy winner has made mistakes in the past, which were “publicly acknowledged and addressed by him in his 2017 documentary, ‘Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life,’ but have since “grown from those experiences, and its evolution speaks for itself.”
