Chris Brown is facing accusations from a woman who says the singer raped and drugged her on Diddy’s yacht in 2020. The allegations were revealed on the new Investigation Discovery documentary, Chris Brown: A History of Violence, which premiered on Sunday on the True Crime Network. The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe in the doc, said Brown assaulted her at Combs’ yacht party on Star Island in Miami.
Brown allegedly started talking to the woman about her dance career when he met her at the party, then continued to hand her drinks. Jane Doe said she then became sleepy and ended up in a bedroom with Brown.
“I remember I did lay back and I’m like, ‘Why can’t I get up?’” the woman said in the documentary, per The Hollywood Reporter. “Next thing I know he was on top of me and I couldn’t move and I said ‘no’ and then I felt him… next thing I knew he was inside me.”
Jane Doe’s attorney, Ariel Mitchell, told The Hollywood Reporter that her client withdrew from a lawsuit against Brown in 2022 after the text messages she sent to the artist surfaced. Before the leak, Jane Doe had denied that the messages existed, the attorney said. Mitchell told The Hollywood Reporter that the text messages do not invalidate her client’s allegations against Brown.
“I stand by her then and now. Then was not a question of the veracity of her claims. It was just how she neglected to provide us all of the requested evidence,” Mitchell said.
The doc also spotlights several other allegations that Brown has faced throughout his career. One of those accusations involves Brown’s ex-girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, who filed for a restraining order in 2017, saying he punched her twice in the stomach, threatened her friends and pushed her downstairs.
Another woman, Liziane Gutierrez, also told her story in the documentary, saying Brown punched her when she was backstage at one of his 2016 concerts. Gutierrez said the singer punched her in the face after she tried to take a picture of him with her phone.
“When I first saw Chris Brown at the party, he was acting weird. Extremely weird. And then I decided to grab my phone and take a picture of him,” Gutierrez said in the documentary. “His security grabbed my phone and I got escorted out of the party. I’m not saying it was right what I did with my phone. I know that. But that doesn’t give you the right to punch me in the face. Just kick me out of the party.”
The documentary also reflects on Brown’s infamous incident involving Rihanna. Retired Los Angeles Police Department sergeant Cheryl Dorsey recounted the story in the documentary, saying Brown repeatedly punched Rihanna while they were riding in his car the nights of the Grammys.
“He’s driving, punching her in the left eye with his right fist as he drives with his left hand, and this goes on for blocks,” Dorsey said.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Investigation Discovery president Jason Sarlanis said the documentary is part of the network’s No Excuse for Abuse campaign. He said it aims to “normalize surviving” and expose flaws in the judicial system surrounding domestic violence.
“Our legal system is systematically and institutionally set up to make it very difficult for survivors to get their justice at the time they are prepared and ready to seek it,” Sarlanis said. “The statute of limitations when it comes to domestic violence is painfully short and very often part of how abusers abuse their victims is by gaslighting, coercive control, to the point where many victims don’t even acknowledge the domestic violence until the statute of limitations has ceased.”
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