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Getty PhotographsMusician Chris Brown says he is suing a movie studio over a documentary launched final 12 months which integrated accusations of sexual attack.
Chris Brown: A Historical past of Violence used to be launched by way of Warner Bros in October and featured testimony from an nameless dancer who claimed he raped her on a yacht in 2020.
In a commentary, the Without end singer’s legal professionals say the movie is “defamatory”, and her claims had been “baseless” and “sensationalised”, accusing Warner Bros of “recklessly harmful” his popularity.
In addition to Warner Bros, the lawsuit additionally names manufacturing corporate Abundant. Neither company spoke back when contacted for remark by way of BBC Newsbeat.
Chris Brown’s legal professionals say he is looking for $500m (£405m), after submitting the criticism at a court docket in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The commentary is going on to mention that his legal professionals had instructed manufacturers the allegations – which additionally integrated proof tampering – had been “deceptive” and “discredited” however that Warner Bros proceeded to unencumber the documentary “with out regard for Mr Brown, prioritising earnings over journalistic integrity”.
Getty PhotographsIn a duplicate of the criticism, observed by way of BBC Newsbeat, Chris Brown’s legal professionals solid doubt at the dancer’s reliability as a witness and spotlight 3 claims within the documentary which they are saying are “false”.
Those come with a remark that he has a “predisposition for punching ladies within the face”, the dancer’s allegation he raped her and a declare he manipulated or deleted texts between them sooner than sharing them with police.
Legal professionals say the documentary “states in each to be had style that he’s a serial rapist and sexual abuser”.
The allegations are mentioned to have brought about him emotional misery in addition to “vital hurt to [his] popularity, occupation and industry alternatives”.
The documentary has, they are saying, “irreparably tarnished [his] occupation and status within the public eye”.
Different allegations
Chris Brown first confronted allegations from the dancer, identified in court docket and within the documentary as Jane Doe, in 2022 when she sued him for $20m (£14.9m).
Her lawsuit claimed he drugged and raped her throughout a celebration on a yacht at a belongings owned by way of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ in Miami, Florida.
However the case used to be reportedly disregarded by way of a pass judgement on.
The 35-year-old has had a historical past of well-documented felony troubles.
In 2014, he pleaded to blame to punching a person out of doors a lodge in Washington DC whilst he used to be taking a photograph with two ladies.
Two years later, a style claimed he assaulted her at a Las Vegas on line casino, then again police mentioned there used to be now not sufficient proof to carry fees.
A court docket additionally ordered him to avoid ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran in 2017 after she claimed he threatened to kill her.
Final 12 months’s documentary additionally tested different allegations towards Chris Brown together with a rape inquiry in Paris – through which he used to be launched for free of charge – and assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009, which he pleaded to blame to.
His legal professionals say he is “by no means been discovered at fault for any form of sexual crime”.
“Their [Warner Bros and Ample’s] movements undermine now not most effective Mr Brown’s decade-long efforts to rebuild his lifestyles but in addition the credibility of true survivors of violence,” his attorney Levi McCathern says.
Chris Brown says a portion of any damages could be donated to survivors of sexual violence.
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