{"id":821074,"date":"2026-07-24T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821074\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:01:10","slug":"singer-chris-brown-pleads-guilty-to-brawling-at-a-london-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821074\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Chris Brown pleads guilty to brawling at a London nightclub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grammy<\/a>-winning singer\u00a0Chris Brown<\/a>\u00a0pleaded guilty on Friday to affray over\u00a0an altercation\u00a0in a London nightclub in a fight that injured a music producer.<\/p>\n

Brown, 37, made the change of plea during a hearing at London\u2019s Southwark Crown Court<\/a>. He had previously denied more serious charges over what prosecutors called a \u201cvicious attack\u201d in 2023.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Brown arrives at Southwark Crown Court, where he is charged over an alleged assault in a London nightclub, in London, Friday, July 24, 2026 \u00a0Stefan Rousseau\/PA via AP<\/p>\n

In return for the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped charges of assault, attempting to cause grievous bodily harm and having an offensive weapon, a bottle.<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s friend and vocal coach Omololu Akinlolu also pleaded guilty to affray. The two men had been due to stand trial in October.<\/p>\n

Brown had denied attacking Abraham Diaw with a bottle at the Tape nightclub in the swanky Mayfair neighbourhood in February 2023. But prosecutors said the fight was caught on surveillance camera in front of a club full of people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 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\u2019s head twice,\u201d Claire Campbell, a senior prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service, said after the guilty plea.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Brown had denied attacking Abraham Diaw with a bottle at the Tape nightclub in the swanky Mayfair neighbourhood in February 2023.\u00a0Stefan Rousseau\/PA via AP<\/p>\n

\u201cThis kind of violence is entirely unacceptable, and the Crown Prosecution Service will work tirelessly \u2013 with the police and partners across the criminal justice system \u2013 to pursue cases like this, and prove that no one is above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown had been free on bail of \u00a35 million ($9.5 million), which allowed him to\u00a0tour\u00a0Europe and North America last summer. He was freed on bail again Friday and will be sentenced October 26 on the affray charge, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.<\/p>\n

Brown, wearing a tan suit, gold-rimmed sunglasses and a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap, signed autographs for fans as he left the courthouse.<\/p>\n

Brown, who rose to stardom as a teen in 2005, won his first Grammy for best R&B album in 2011 for F.A.M.E. He earned his second in the same category for 11:11 (Deluxe) in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning singer\u00a0Chris Brown\u00a0pleaded guilty on Friday to affray over\u00a0an altercation\u00a0in a London nightclub in a fight that injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-821074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}