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 domestic violence in 2017.
She alleges that after Brown shared the video, the relentless online abuse and threats from his fans continued, forcing her to leave her hometown.
“I’m suing him because it caused a lot of pain,” she said. “I had to move. I was harassed in my hometown.”
Reliford says she had been a fan of Brown’s since 2005, and started going to his events in 2021.
She says she met him a number of times — and he recognized her at a New Year’s performance in 2024 at Drai’s Nightclub in Las Vegas.
“Out of everyone in the crowd, I know he recognized me at this point,” she said.
“He walked up to me at Drai’s while he’s onstage and out of everyone, pulled my hand and was like, ‘I love you.’ And he sang ‘I love you’ in front of everybody.”
Later that year, Reliford attended a paid “meet and greet” and in June 2024 was “singled out” to enter a dance battle with one of his dancers.
“I didn’t want to engage, and I was humiliated and I felt bad,” she stated.
One day later, she made a public video on Instagram expressing her concerns.
And according to her lawsuit, on July 8 or 9, Brown reposted a manipulated version of this video created by someone else.
Reliford says the consequences were immediate and severe.
“You threw me to 145 million people and I was destroyed, ripped apart, and for what? Because I no longer wanted to support you?” she said.
“I want to stand up for the underdogs and us little guys who kind of are getting picked on and he’s weaponizing his platform.”
She added: “We have a right to stand up. We have a right to speak for ourselves.”
A week or so before she filed the lawsuit she also stated on Instagram her “previous, current, and future” statements made about Brown and his dancers are part of her artistic expression.
Speaking now, she now claims post this was a “joke.”
At a hearing on May 12, she says a judge granted her an additional 90 days to complete service on Brown.
She said her initial motion for service by publication was denied due to a filing error.
Once service is successful or publication is approved, the 20-day legal response window will be triggered, potentially leading to a default judgment if Brown does not respond.
The court confirmed to SWNS the case was still active and logged, and had been filed.
A representative for Chris Brown did not immediately respond to comment.