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American singer Chris Brown detained in Paris after rape complaint
- Sources said Brown was detained on Monday and is still in custody with his bodyguards while police study the complaint
Chris Brown performing in Milan, Italy in 2018. Photo: AP
US singer Chris Brown and two other people are in custody in Paris after a woman filed a rape complaint, French officials said on Tuesday.
Brown was detained on Monday on potential charges of aggravated rape and drug infractions and remained in custody, a judicial official said. Investigators have another two days to decide whether to let him go or file preliminary charges.
Brown’s publicists at Sony Music would not immediately comment on the complaint or say what Brown, 29, was doing in Paris.
Brown has been in repeated legal trouble since pleading guilty to the felony assault in 2009 of his girlfriend at the time, Rihanna. He completed his probation in that case in 2015.
One of Brown’s bodyguards is among the others detained, according to a Paris police official.
The woman who filed the complaint said she met Brown and his friends at the club Le Crystal in the 17th arrondissement of north-western Paris on Wednesday, and then they all went to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel near Concorde Plaza in the city central, according to the official.
Neither official was authorised to be publicly named discussing the investigation.