Chris Brown superfan files $30M lawsuit against R&B star over viral stalker video: It caused a lot of pain
An obsessed former Chris Brown superfan has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the singer.Angela Reliford, 35, is accusing him of reposting an edited Instagram video which falsely portrays her as a violent stalker.Reliford filed the suit against the singer, his companies and executives from Sony Music and RCA Records.The video allegedly included a mugshot from a 2017 arrest and Angela — who uses the name chrisbrownzwife777 online — claims this was used to imply she was a dangerous criminal.The case, filed May 5 in Nevada, alleges defamation, slander, libel, copyright infringement, invasion of privacy, emotional distress and negligence, over the video which was allegedly reposted in July 2024, to his Instagram account, followed by over 145 million people.And she says it resulted in harassment online including false comments about her being transgender — and her coworkers watched the viral video in break rooms.As well as $15 million in compensation, she’s calling for an apology from Brown.It comes in the wake of Brown’s arrest in Manchester, England this month for allegedly attacking a music producer with a bottle at a nightclub.Reliford, an entrepreneur from Atlanta, Georgia, frequently posts online about Brown, and previous videos still visible online show her saying she wants to harm the singer’s dancers.“I was just attacked online for months,” she said.“A lot of his fans tried to insult me and to humiliate me.“They started misgendering me and calling me a transgender to be offensive and disrespectful. “And unfortunately, some people started to actually believe that.”The backlash escalated to being “assaulted physically” at her workplace by someone who had seen the content online, she said.“A young gentleman who believed I was transgender actually attacked me and fought me because he thought I was a man,” she said.On the mugshot used in the infamous video, Reliford claims the incident stems from being “falsely arrested” for dom...