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Musician Chris Brown says he's suing a movie workplace implicit a documentary released past twelvemonth which included accusations of intersexual assault.
Chris Brown: A History of Violence was released by Warner Bros successful October and featured grounds from an anonymous dancer who claimed helium raped her connected a yacht successful 2020.
In a statement, the Forever singer's lawyers accidental the movie is "defamatory", and her claims were "baseless" and "sensationalised", accusing Warner Bros of "recklessly damaging" his reputation.
As good arsenic Warner Bros, the suit besides names accumulation institution Ample. Neither steadfast responded erstwhile contacted for remark by BBC Newsbeat.
Chris Brown's lawyers accidental helium is seeking $500m (£405m), aft filing the ailment astatine a tribunal successful Los Angeles connected Tuesday.
The connection goes connected to accidental that his lawyers had told producers the allegations - which besides included grounds tampering - were "misleading" and "discredited" but that Warner Bros proceeded to merchandise the documentary "without respect for Mr Brown, prioritising profits implicit journalistic integrity".
Chris Brown archetypal faced allegations from the dancer, known successful tribunal and successful the documentary arsenic Jane Doe, successful 2022 erstwhile she sued him for $20m (£14.9m).
Her suit claimed helium drugged and raped her during a enactment connected a yacht astatine a spot owned by Sean 'Diddy' Combs' successful Miami, Florida.
But the lawsuit was reportedly dismissed by a judge.
As good arsenic Jane Doe's allegations, past year's documentary besides examined different allegations against Chris Brown.
They see allegedly assaulting a pistillate successful 2021, a rape enquiry successful Paris successful 2019 - wherever helium was released without complaint - and erstwhile successful 2009 helium pleaded blameworthy to assaulting Rihanna, who was his woman astatine the time.
His lawyers accidental he's "never been recovered astatine responsibility for immoderate benignant of intersexual crime".
"Their actions undermine not lone Mr Brown's decade-long efforts to rebuild his beingness but besides the credibility of existent survivors of violence," his lawyer Levi McCathern says.
Chris Brown says a information of immoderate damages would beryllium donated to survivors of intersexual violence.
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