Chris Brown accused in lawsuit of drugging and raping a woman in Miami

R&B singer Chris Brown is accused of drugging and raping a girl on a yacht in 2020, in line with a lawsuit filed Thursday in a Los Angeles County court docket.

The swimsuit, seen by NBC Information, alleges that Brown met the lady, recognized as Jane Doe, in Miami in late December of that yr. The lawsuit says the lady, an expert choreographer and music artist from Los Angeles, was speaking on FaceTime with a buddy when Brown took the buddy’s cellphone and “advised her that he had heard about her music and urged her to move over to Diddy’s residence on Star Island as quickly as potential.”

After arriving at Diddy’s residence the lady boarded a yacht and Brown provided her a drink, in line with the lawsuit. Whereas the swimsuit says the yacht was on Diddy’s property, it’s unclear who owned the vessel.

She accepted the drink from Brown whereas they talked about her music profession, the swimsuit states. After giving her a second drink, the lady began to “really feel a sudden, unexplained change in consciousness,” the lawsuit says.

It accuses the singer of appearing “with the intent to trigger dangerous or offensive contact when he drugged Plaintiff Jane Doe’s drink.”

“Plaintiff Jane Doe felt disoriented, bodily unstable, and began to fall out and in of sleep,” the swimsuit alleges. “Defendant Chris Brown then led a drugged, half-sleep Plaintiff Jane Doe down a hall and right into a bed room.”

Bown, in line with the lawsuit, closed the door and “barred Plaintiff Jane Doe’s try to go away, threw Plaintiff Jane Doe on a mattress, eliminated her bikini bottoms, began kissing her.”

The swimsuit says the lady, who was nonetheless half-asleep, mumbled for Brown to cease however he “ignored” her.

The swimsuit alleges that Brown raped the lady after which “jumped up and introduced he was ‘finished.’” He allegedly then advised the lady to contact him so they may discuss her music profession.

The girl texted a buddy for assist, who helped her depart the house.

Within the weeks following the alleged incident, Brown continued to succeed in out to the lady, in line with the lawsuit. In a single message, the singer allegedly “demanded” she take a tablet to maintain her from getting pregnant, which she took, the swimsuit says.

Final January, after Brown contacted her once more, the lady went to his home in California to take heed to some music with him, his producer, and one other lady.

She went to his home a second time in August whereas Brown was recording a track, the swimsuit says. Throughout that encounter, Brown turned “turned loud and irate” when she rejected his request to go upstairs to his bed room, the lawsuit alleges.

The girl is suing for sexual battery and rape, false imprisonment, emotional misery, and violation of the gender violence statute. She is looking for $20 million.

A consultant for Brown couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon Friday.

A consultant for Diddy, who will not be named as a defendant within the lawsuit, additionally couldn’t instantly be reached. 

Brown addressed the allegations in an Instagram Story early Friday morning.

“I HOPE YALL SEE THIS PATTERN OF [cap] each time im releasing music or tasks,” he wrote, referencing a slang phrase that describes an individual who’s mendacity.

“‘THEY’ attempt to pull” one thing, he added with out clarifying who he was referring to.

Jane Doe’s legal professional, George Vrabeck, stated he doesn’t know who Brown was referring to when he stated “they.”

“Ariel Mitchell and I are attorneys representing a younger lady that was raped. Come on, we’re not the Illuminati. We intend to carry ALL events accountable in order that we’d start to eradicate this conduct from our society,” he stated in a press release.

Vrabeck and Mitchell are additionally representing Jauhara Jeffries, who accused singer Trey Songz of assault. A spokesperson for Songz denied the allegations and declined to touch upon Jeffries’ lawsuit.