{"id":879139,"date":"2026-09-01T06:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879139\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:24:11","slug":"chris-brown-to-judge-im-too-busy-with-my-tour-with-usher-to-show-up-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879139\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Brown to Judge: I&#8217;m Too Busy With My Tour With Usher to Show Up to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260831_5af1181595aa47c382838be27910da72\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:dda420c2-3825-499c-9f38-d4778e37cdf9\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5af1181595aa47c382838be27910da72_md.jpg\" alt=\"chris brown getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/chris-brown\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Brown<\/a> claims he is not able to take time off from his tour with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/usher\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Usher<\/a> to deal with the ongoing legal matters with his ex-housekeeper &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, Chris said he can\u2019t be forced to show up for an examination at the Van Nuys courthouse, where his ex-housekeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/maria-avila\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Avila<\/a> wants to review his finances and bank statements to see how he will pay the judgment he owes her.<\/p>\n<p>In his new filing, Chris said he\u2019s a little busy with his nationwide tour \u2026 and said there are even talks to extend the tour with additional dates.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chris said there is no evidence he concealed or fraudulently transferred assets around to avoid paying the debt. The singer said he lives in Vegas &#8230; more than 150 miles away from the courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Maria is on the hunt to collect the $13 million she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/30\/chris-brown-ordered-to-pay-13-million-for-dog-attack\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">awarded<\/a> over the dog attack at Chris\u2019 L.A. home. Chris denied all claims of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The judge previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/08\/21\/chris-brown-ex-housekeeper-gets-his-tour-income\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed off<\/a> on Maria being able to take a cut of Chris\u2019 tour profits until the debt is paid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Brown claims he is not able to take time off from his tour with Usher to deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-879139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}