Chris Brown doesn’t have a lot of margin of error and won’t get the benefit of the doubt from a lot of people, but everyone should take a step back and wait for all the facts to come out.
Brown has been detained and his accuser is speaking out.
Her story and the story of the people at the hotel that night vary by a lot.
Closer, which broke the story Brown was being investigated for rape, calls the woman by a pseudonym — Karima — a 24-year-old model who told the mag she met Brown at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Paris on January 15 at around 10:30 PM and then went to a nightclub.
Karima told Closer at 4 AM Brown and his crew wanted to return to the hotel, and she said she was tired but they convinced her to go back to the Mandarin with a group of people.
She says once inside his suite, she went to the bathroom, Brown followed her and “catches me by the right arm. He makes me enter a sort of dressing room. He closed the door … it lasted 25 – 30 minutes.”
She describes the alleged rape as “brutal and violent.” She says she was then “abused” by one of Brown’s friends and a bodyguard.
Someone connected to Brown tells us the singer was never alone with the alleged victim and says Chris’ girlfriend, Amika Harris, was in the hotel room the whole time. He says there were more than 20 people in the room “hanging out” and listening to music Brown was playing on his iPhone.
Someone is lying because there is a big difference between raping a woman in a room for a half hour and playing on your iPhone with your girlfriend in the room the whole time.
Hopefully, the truth comes out.
Brown has been released.
US singer Chris Brown has been released without charge in Paris after being questioned on suspicion of rape, French police say.
Brown’s lawyer, Raphael Chiche, said the R&B singer “energetically” professed his innocence and intended to sue for defamation.
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