Overview
- A Jan. 12 court order by Judge Colin Leis threw out Brown’s defamation case against Warner Bros. Discovery and Ample Entertainment over the 2024 Investigation Discovery film.
- Leis wrote that he personally watched the entire documentary and found it recited the inconsistencies Brown highlighted, including the existence of text messages.
- The ruling concluded the film amounted to a fair and true report of the accuser’s statements and related judicial records.
- The judge rejected Brown’s claim over commentator Scaachi Koul’s line about a predisposition for violence, noting Brown admitted to punching Rihanna and offered no evidence the opinion was false.
- Brown can appeal the dismissal, and he still faces a separate U.K. criminal case scheduled for trial on Oct. 26, 2026, following his 2025 arrest and bail in the London incident.