Chris Brown sues Warner Bros. Discovery for $500million following sexual assault allegations in documentary

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Chris Brown is suing Warner Bros. for $500million following allegations of sexual assault put forward in a recent documentary.Titled Chris Brown: A History of Violence, the documentary arrived in October last year and came from the same production team that made the Quiet On Set exposé which explored the toxic culture at Nickelodeon in the ’90s.Ahead of its release, it was described as diving into the rapper’s “years of alleged offstage aggression, including intimate-partner violence, assault charges and even sexual assault allegations”.

It also included a claim from a woman going by Jane Doe who sued Brown for allegedly drugging and assaulting her at one of Diddy’s 2020 yacht parties.In the filing by Brown’s legal team, Warner Bros.

Discovery and production company Ample Entertainment face accusations of “promoting and publishing false information in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars and to the detriment” of Brown (via Rolling Stone).

It also adds that this was done despite “knowing that it was full of lies and deception and violating basic journalistic principles.”Filed at Los Angeles Superior Court, the case reads (as per RS): “To put it simply, this case is about the media putting their own profits over the truth.