{"id":137593,"date":"2025-01-23T02:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/chris-brown-sues-warner-bros-for-500m-over-sexual-assault-allegations-national\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:18:52","slug":"chris-brown-sues-warner-bros-for-500m-over-sexual-assault-allegations-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/chris-brown-sues-warner-bros-for-500m-over-sexual-assault-allegations-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Brown sues Warner Bros. for $500M over sexual assault allegations &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/chris-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Brown<\/a> has filed a lawsuit towards <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/warner-bros.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warner Bros.<\/a> for $500 million, alleging their Investigation Discovery docuseries <em>Chris Brown: A History of Violence<\/em> options false sexual allegations towards the 35-year-old singer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Brown alleges that producers for the October 2024 docuseries included discredited claims of sexual assault. The swimsuit accuses the producers behind the docuseries of libel and intentional infliction of emotional misery by means of defamatory claims made towards him.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>With You<\/em> singer accused producers of basing all the collection on a Jane Doe lawsuit, which his swimsuit claims was dismissed \u201cbecause it was full of lies.\u201d The swimsuit additionally claims that the proof used towards Brown by \u201cJane Doe\u201d was \u201cdiscredited over and over\u201d and says that she was \u201ca perpetrator of intimate partner violence and aggressor herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s group alleges that \u201cJane Doe\u201d fabricated her claims towards the <em>Under The Influence\u00a0<\/em>singer and say the producers of the docuseries ought to have recognized when the uncovered textual content messages, revealed by regulation enforcement, \u201cexposed her dishonesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTo put it simply, this case is about the media putting their own profits over the truth,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cSince the start of October of 2024, Ample LLC and Warner Brothers had been placed on discover that they had been selling and publishing false info of their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and {dollars} and to the detriment of Chris Brown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h3>Get breaking National information<\/h3>\n<p>For information impacting Canada and all over the world, join breaking information alerts delivered on to you after they occur.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, on October 27, 2024, they aired <em>Chris Brown: A History of Violence<\/em>\u2019(the \u2018Documentary\u2019), knowing that it was full of lies and deception and violating basic journalist principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"false\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"miniplayer_3674164_6791939d4d0d4\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"3674164\" data-displayinline-ratio=\"16:9\" data-displayinline=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/3674164\/#autoplay&amp;stickyiframe=miniplayer_3674164_6791939d4d0d4\" data-displayinline-sticky=\"true\">\n<div class=\"c-video__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__placeholder\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Chris Brown talks about how he felt like a \u2018monster\u2019 after beating Rihanna in new documentary'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/423\/359\/chrisbrown.jpg?w=1040&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, \" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/423\/359\/chrisbrown.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 450w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/423\/359\/chrisbrown.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 720w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/423\/359\/chrisbrown.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1040w,\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__overlay\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"c-video__duration\">0:30<\/time><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__title\">Chris Brown talks about how he felt like a \u2018monster\u2019 after beating Rihanna in new documentary<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The lawsuit states that Brown has by no means been convicted of any intercourse crimes, however the docuseries labels him as a \u201cserial rapist\u201d and \u201csexual abuser.\u201d<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a 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rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2194418695.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Elon Musk responds to accusations he made Nazi salute at Trump inauguration\" data-title=\"\">Elon Musk responds to accusations he made Nazi salute at Trump inauguration<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cMr. Brown has never been found guilty of any sex related crime,\u201d the swimsuit reads. \u201cBut this documentary states in every available fashion that he is a serial rapist and sexual abuser.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The swimsuit goes on to acknowledge that Brown has made errors previously they usually have been \u201cpublicly acknowledged and addressed by him in <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3674599\/chris-brown-rihanna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his 2017 documentary<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life<\/em>.\u201d His legal professionals say that the\u00a0<em>Sensational\u00a0<\/em>singer has labored arduous at \u201credeeming\u201d his repute.<\/p>\n<p>Brown pleaded responsible to the felony assault in 2009 of his then-girlfriend, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/rihanna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rihanna<\/a>. He accomplished home violence counselling and 5 years\u2019 probation in that case in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Brown has grown from those experiences, and his evolution speaks for itself,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cThis new production ignores that growth, choosing instead to repackage stale accusations while amplifying them with demonstrable falsehoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown is suing Warner Bros. Discovery and manufacturing firm Ample Entertainment for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional misery and utilizing his title and likeness for promotional functions.<\/p>\n<p>He is in search of a jury trial and a minimum of $500 million in damages, of which he pledges to donate a portion to sexual abuse victims if damages are awarded.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, Warner Bros. has not commented publicly on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Entertainment<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More movies<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chris Brown has filed a lawsuit towards Warner Bros. for $500 million, alleging their Investigation Discovery docuseries Chris Brown: A History of Violence options false sexual allegations towards the 35-year-old singer. 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