LONDON (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown on Friday pleaded not responsible to 2 additional prices associated to the intense beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
Brown, 36, denied the extra severe cost of trying to trigger grievous bodily hurt at a listening to final month.
The singer, carrying a lightweight brown swimsuit, pleaded not responsible to assault inflicting precise bodily hurt to Abraham Diaw on the Tape nightclub within the swanky London neighborhood of Mayfair in February 2023.
He additionally denied having an offensive weapon — a bottle — in a public place in the course of the quick listening to at Southwark Crown Courtroom.
Round 20 followers sat within the public gallery behind the dock for Friday’s listening to, with a number of gasping because the singer of “Go Crazy,” “Run It” and “Kiss Kiss” walked into the courtroom.
Co-defendant — Brown’s buddy and fellow musician — Omololu Akinlolu, 39, additionally denied precise bodily hurt on Friday.
The 2023 assault was caught on surveillance digicam in entrance of a membership full of individuals, prosecutors mentioned.
Brown was launched in Might on bail of 5 million kilos ($6.75 million), which allowed him to begin his “Breezy Bowl XX” tour. Following a collection of dates in Europe, he is set to return to North America on the finish of July to play in Miami, earlier than shifting throughout the U.S. with a two-night cease in Toronto alongside the way in which.
Brown, who rose to stardom as a teen in 2005, gained his first Grammy for finest R&B album in 2011 for “F.A.M.E..” He earned his second in the identical class for “11:11 (Deluxe)” earlier this yr.
