Chris Brown sues Warner Bros for $500m over sexual assault allegations in documentary
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The singer has filed a lawsuit against the media conglomerate for making defamatory claims against him in the 2024 film Chris Brown: A History of Violence. The R&B star Chris Brown is suing the media conglomerate Warner Bros Discovery for $500m (£406m) for making defamatory claims against him in the 2024 documentary Chris Brown: A History of Violence, Rolling Stone reports.
Released in October, the documentary addressed the allegations of misconduct and sexual assault against Brown. It features a Jane Doe who sued him for allegedly drugging and assaulting her at a party in 2020 on Sean “Diddy” Combs’s yacht (the case was dismissed without prejudice). In 2009, Brown assaulted his then-girlfriend Rihanna before the Grammy awards.
The film additionally details Brown smashing a window at Good Morning America in 2011, allegedly throwing a brick through his mother’s windscreen in 2013, punching a female fan in 2016 and allegations of verbal and physical abuse and death threats by another ex-girlfriend, Karrueche Tran.
Brown was also sued by his ex-manager in 2016, who said Brown punched him multiple times in the head and neck; they settled out of court in 2019. In July, four concertgoers claimed Brown and his entourage “attacked and brutally beat” them after a concert, and are awaiting trial.
The suit by Brown, filed in Los Angeles superior court, accuses Discovery and production company Ample Entertainment of “promoting and publishing false information in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars and to the detriment” of Brown despite “knowing that it was full of lies and deception and violating basic journalist principles.”.
