As a long-time follower and supporter of Chris Brown‘s music, I must admit that it’s become increasingly difficult to separate the art from the artist when it comes to him. The latest allegations against Chris Brown, as depicted in the Investigation Discovery documentary “Chris Brown: A History of Violence,” are truly disheartening and hard to ignore.
A woman, known only as Jane Doe, who has accused Chris Brown of assault, alleges that he drugs and sexually assaulted her aboard Sean “Diddy” Combs’ yacht in the month of December 2020.
It was claimed during Chris Brown: A History of Violence, which aired on Investigation Discovery’s true-crime channel on Sunday night, that Brown has a history of violent behavior offstage. This documentary delved into allegations of his aggression towards intimate partners, assault charges, and sexual misconduct accusations. These allegations were initially made public in 2009 when the popular rapper pleaded guilty to a felony charge for physically attacking his former girlfriend, Rihanna.
The identity document offers vivid descriptions of Brown attacking Rihanna while driving a sports car, with her seated as a passenger. “He’s behind the wheel, striking her in the left eye with his right hand, all while steering with his left, and this continues for several city blocks,” Cheryl Dorsey, a retired Los Angeles Police Department sergeant and author, explains during the documentary.
The true-crime ID segment also includes a woman known as Jane Doe describing an incident in Miami during 2020, where she attended a party on Star Island aboard Diddy’s yacht. Upon boarding, she claims to have encountered an individual identified as Brown and engaged in a discussion about her budding dancing career based in Los Angeles.
Jane Doe narrated Brown giving her two drinks in succession. Not much time passed before she started feeling drowsy, eventually winding up in a bedroom with Brown. “I vaguely recall trying to sit up and thinking, ‘Why can’t I stand?’ The next thing I knew, he was on top of me and I couldn’t budge. I said ‘no’, and then I felt him… the next instant, I realized he had entered me,” she claimed, asserting that Brown had raped her.
In response to queries from The Hollywood Reporter, attorney Ariel Mitchell stated that Jane Doe is once more being represented by him, following his withdrawal from a lawsuit in 2022 when some text messages between Jane Doe and Brown emerged after she had denied their existence. According to Mitchell, these texts do not undermine Jane Doe’s accusations against Brown. “I supported her then and I support her now,” said Mitchell upon being contacted on Monday. “At that time, it wasn’t a matter of the truthfulness of her claims. It was simply about her failing to provide us with all the required evidence.
When contacted by THR, a spokesperson for Diddy dismissed the accusation, stating it did not involve their client.
Jane Doe is not the only one who remembers purported attacks by the R&B artist. In 2017, another girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, was granted a restraining order following her court filing stating that Brown had struck her twice in the abdomen, threatened friends, and forced her down the stairs.
At the given moment, Brown asserted his innocence regarding any misconduct, including instances involving Tran in 2015. Another accuser, Liziane Gutierrez, disclosed in 2016 that she was backstage during one of Brown’s concerts and was invited to a party he hosted at a hotel.
Before attending the private gathering, Guiterrez was instructed to relinquish her mobile phone and store it in her pocket instead. In the documentary, she recalls, “As soon as I spotted Chris Brown at the party, his behavior struck me as incredibly odd. Very unusual indeed. That’s when I decided to snap a picture of him with my phone.
However, when Brown noticed her taking a photograph, he reportedly approached and struck her in the face instead. “His security confiscated my phone, and I was forced to leave the gathering,” Gutierrez explained. “I acknowledge that what I did with my device might not have been appropriate. Nevertheless, it does not justify punching me in the face. All he needed to do was eject me from the party.
The individual submitted a complaint to the Las Vegas Police Department, but they declined to press charges. Brown’s lawyer refuted the accusations in the document and stated that he had never physically harmed Gutierrez. THR did not receive any response from Gutierrez’s legal team regarding this matter.
When the production team behind the ID documentary contacted Brown’s management regarding accusations within the show, a lawyer for the artist declared that the charges presented in the program were “harmful and untrue.
Following the broadcast of a documentary about Chris Brown’s history of violence on Sunday evening, Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor and co-host of The View, facilitated a post-show conversation focusing on domestic violence. Earlier, Hostin shared with THR her hope that viewers who tuned in to the documentary would understand that intimate partner violence knows no limits.
Speaking with THR last week, I, as a fervent fan, learned from ID President Jason Sarlanis that the upcoming Brown documentary is a crucial part of ID’s third annual “No Excuse for Abuse” campaign. The goal? To make survival a common, accepted narrative – to normalize surviving.
Sarlanis emphasized that the document highlighted hurdles in the judicial system when it comes to preventing domestic violence. In his words to THR, “Our legal system is structurally and traditionally designed to make it extremely challenging for survivors to obtain justice when they are ready to pursue it.” He added, “The time limit for filing charges in cases of domestic violence is distressingly short, and one of the ways abusers manipulate their victims is by gaslighting, controlling them coercively, often leaving many victims unaware of the domestic violence until the filing deadline has passed.
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2024-10-28 18:26