Grammy-winning US singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty Friday to affray over an altercation in a London nightclub in a struggle that injured a music producer.
Brown, 37, made the change of plea throughout a listening to at London’s Southwark Crown Court. He had beforehand denied extra severe expenses over the 2023 altercation.
In return for the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped expenses of assault, trying to trigger grievous bodily hurt and having an offensive weapon.
Brown’s good friend and vocal coach Omololu Akinlolu additionally pleaded guilty to affray. The two males had been due to stand trial in October.
Brown had denied attacking Abraham Diaw with a bottle at the Tape nightclub within the swanky Mayfair neighborhood in February 2023. But prosecutors mentioned the struggle was caught on surveillance digicam in entrance of a membership full of individuals.
“This was a vicious and unprovoked attack by Brown and Akinlolu in a crowded nightclub where Brown used a glass bottle as a weapon to strike the victim’s head twice,” Claire Campbell, a senior prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service, mentioned after the guilty plea.
“This kind of violence is entirely unacceptable, and the Crown Prosecution Service will work tirelessly – with the police and partners across the criminal justice system – to pursue cases like this, and prove that no one is above the law.”
Brown had been free on bail of £5 million ($6.75 million), which allowed him to tour Europe and North America final summer season. He was freed on bail once more Friday and might be sentenced October 26 on the affray cost, which carries a most sentence of three years in jail.
Brown, sporting a tan go well with, gold-rimmed sun shades and a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap, signed autographs for followers as he left the courthouse.
Brown, who rose to stardom as a teen in 2005, received his first Grammy for greatest R&B album in 2011 for “F.A.M.E.” He earned his second in the identical class for “11:11 (Deluxe)” in 2025.