A choose dismissed Chris Brown’s $500 million lawsuit over Investigation Discovery’s documentary, ruling it met journalistic requirements.
A choose has dismissed Chris Brown‘s $500 million defamation lawsuit towards Warner Bros Discovery and Investigation Discovery over their 2024 documentary Chris Brown: A Historical past of Violence.
Choose Colin Leis dominated that the community offered each side of the story in a balanced method when overlaying home and sexual abuse allegations towards the R&B singer. The court docket order rejected Brown’s claims that the documentary was “filled with lies and deception.”
The lawsuit centered on the documentary’s deal with a girl who alleged Chris Brown raped her on a yacht owned by Diddy in 2020. Brown insisted these claims have been false and pointed to inconsistencies within the lady’s account, her violent previous, and hid textual content messages after she reported the incident to Miami police.
However Choose Leis mentioned Investigation Discovery met journalistic requirements in its reporting.
“The court docket has personally seen your entire documentary,” the choose wrote. “The documentary recites a lot of the inconsistencies plaintiff notes, together with the existence of the textual content messages.”
The choose added that media defendants “offered a ‘truthful and true’ report of statements and the judicial report and proceedings.”
Chris Brown additionally claimed the community defamed him by together with an interview the place tradition author Scaachi Koul mentioned the singer had a “predisposition for punching girls within the face.”
Choose Leis dismissed this criticism, noting that Chris Brown “has admitted to punching the singer Rihanna.”
The dismissal comes as Brown faces separate authorized troubles in the UK.
He pleaded not responsible in June 2025 to prices stemming from an alleged assault at Tape London nightclub in February 2023. Prosecutors accuse Brown of attacking music producer Amadou “Abe” Diaw with a tequila bottle.
Chris Brown was arrested in London in Might 2025 and initially denied bail earlier than posting $6.7 million to safe his launch. The arrest threatened his Breezy Bowl XX tour, however he was allowed to proceed performing after posting bail.
Brown’s pal and collaborator Omololu Akinlolu, who performs as HoodyBaby, was additionally charged in reference to the 2023 incident and pleaded not responsible throughout the identical listening to.
The singer’s trial within the UK assault case is scheduled to start on October 26, 2026, with Brown dealing with prices of making an attempt to unlawfully trigger grievous bodily hurt with intent.
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