Chris Brown Files $500M Defamation Suit Against Warner Bros. Over Documentary

Chris Brown claims a 2024 documentary focused on the sexual-assault and -abuse allegations against him is defamatory. The singer is suing Warner Bros. Discovery for $500 million over Chris Brown: A History of Violence, Rolling Stone reported. Brown’s lawsuit accuses Warner Bros. of “promoting and publishing false information in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars,” claiming the documentary “was full of lies and deception.” The lawsuit also names production company Ample Entertainment as well as a Jane Doe who participated in the documentary; she previously sued Brown in January 2022, claiming he raped her in 2020 on a yacht docked at Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Miami home. “Mr. Brown has never been found guilty of any sex related crime … but this documentary states in every available fashion that he is a serial rapist and sexual abuser,” the lawsuit says. Brown’s lawyer told Rolling Stone that the case was about “protecting the truth.”

This isn’t the first time Brown has sued over a rape allegation. In 2019, he filed a lawsuit against a woman in Paris who accused him of rape. At the time, he said her allegations were “against my character and morals.”

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