The singer's plea led to the dropping of more serious charges of assault and suspicion of grievous bodily harm.
By Gil Kaufman
Chris Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of “affray” (a disturbance of public order due to a public fight) on Friday in London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday (July 24), saving the 37-year-old singer from more serious charges of assault tied to an alleged bottle attack at a London nightclub in 2023.
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According to BBC News, Brown’s plea of affray was tied to what prosecutors referred to as a “vicious and unprovoked attack” on the victim at private members’ club Tape in the Mayfair neighborhood on Feb. 19, 2023. Prosecutors claimed that Brown approached the victim — identified as music producer Amadou “Abe” Diaw — and struck him over the head with a bottle, with Brown’s 40-year-old vocal coach, Omololu Akinlolu (aka Florida rapper Hoody Baby ), reportedly joining in to punch Diaw in the head.
