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Chris Brown's selfie/Photo credit: Chris Brown's social media account
Chris Brown releases an all-new visual for his song Residuals after news broke out on him suing Warner Bros. for $500 million over sexual assault allegations in the Investigation Discovery docuseries Chris Brown: A History of Violence.
Residuals was one of the biggest hits in R&B throughout the array of new music releases from 2024. It was originally included in the deluxe edition of his 11th studio album 11:11, which was released by RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment in April 2024.
Meanwhile, in the lawsuit, Brown accuses producers behind the docuseries of libel and international infliction of emotional distress through the sexual assault allegations, which he marks them as defamatory claims. He also alleged that the evidence provided to substantiate their claims is completely false, according to Variety.
“To put it simply, this case is about the media putting their own profits over the truth,” the lawsuit reads, filed by attorneys Arnold Shokouchi and Levi McCarhern. “Since the beginning of October of 2024, Ample LLC and Warner Brothers were out on notice that they were promoting and publishing false information in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars and to the detriment of Chris Brown. Ultimately, on October 27, 2024, they aired ‘Chris Brown: A History of Violence’ (the “Documentary”), knowing that it was full of lies and deception and violating basic journalist principles.”
The suit goes on to allege that Jane Doe’s claims had been “discredited over and over” again, and that she was “a perpetrator of intimate partner violence and aggressor herself.” It also acknowledged that Brown has made mistakes in the past which had been “publicly acknowledged and addressed by him in his 2018 documentary, ‘Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life,’” but he has since “grown from those experiences, and his evolution speaks for itself.”
Brown’s legal team also say Jane Doe’s alleged “history of violence and erratic behavior [that] should have raised red flags for any responsible journalist,” noting an alleged restraining order against the woman by an ex-boyfriend in 2021 “after she physically assaulted him, threatened him with a knife, and engaged in online harassment,” according to Rolling Stone.
His attorneys accuse Warner Bros. and its producers of disregarding the incident, claiming they “instead framed her as a reliable source to bolster their sensationalized portrayal instead of the physical aggressor in a romantic relationship.”
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