{"id":11809,"date":"2025-06-20T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:03:54","slug":"singer-chris-brown-pleads-not-guilty-in-london-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11809","title":{"rendered":"Singer Chris Brown pleads not guilty in London assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LONDON — <\/span>Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to the serious beating<\/a> of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.<\/p>\n

Brown, 36, pleaded not guilty in Southwark Crown Court to one count of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s friend and fellow musician Omololu Akinlolu, 38, who performs under the name \u201cHoody Baby,\u201d pleaded not guilty to the same charge.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Brown and Akinlolu assaulted producer Abe Diaw at a bar in the Tape nightclub in the swanky Mayfair neighborhood in February 2023. Brown allegedly launched an unprovoked attack on Diaw and hit him several times with a bottle and then punched and kicked him.<\/p>\n

The attack was caught on surveillance camera in front of a club full of people, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Brown was released last month on 5 million-pound ($6.75 million) bail, which allowed him to start his world tour earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Brown, who burst onto the music scene as a teen in 2005, won his first Grammy for best R&B album in 2011 for \u201cF.A.M.E.\u201d and then earned his second in the same category for \u201c11:11 (Deluxe)\u201d earlier this year.<\/p>\n

His hits include songs such as \u201cRun It,\u201d \u201cKiss Kiss\u201d and \u201cWithout You.\u201d<\/p>\n

His tour is due to kick off June 8 in Amsterdam before starting North America shows in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023. Brown, 36, pleaded not guilty in Southwark Crown Court to one count of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent. Brown\u2019s friend and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions\/11811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}