Last month Chris Brown's defamation of character lawsuit against Warner Bros. for airing the "Chris Brown : A History of Violence,' documentary was dismissed [click here if you missed that].
Despite the legal setback Chris' $500 million defamation of character lawsuit against one of the documentary participants is moving forward...
From MYNewsLA
A judge has declined to dismiss a defamation claim against a woman who accused singer Chris Brown of sixually assaulting her aboard a yacht in 2020 at a New Year’s Eve party hosted by Diddy, finding that her statement was one of fact and not of protected speech opinion.
Brown’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit seeks $500 million for what he said were false sixual assault allegations leveled against him in the documentary “Chris Brown: A History of Violence.”
In addition to Warner Bros. and Ample LLC, Brown sued several individuals including podcast hostess Scaachi Koul, community activist Michelle Taylor, broadcast journalist Sharon Carpenter and former Los Angeles police Officer Cheryl Dorsey. Judge Colin Leis previously dismissed all those parties as defendants on free-speech grounds, but took the case against his sixual assault accuser, Chantel Daisia Frank, under submission in late January before rejecting her First Amendment defense in a ruling Friday.
While Frank contended her statement Brown rxped her was an opinion, she was actually asserting as a fact the singer rxped her, a statement that can be disproven, according to the judge, who further stated Frank’s statement was not protected speech after all.
The judge declined to find that Brown was “libel proof,” saying the entertainer’s alleged history of violent behavior does not include a history of rxpe allegations.
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