{"id":402148,"date":"2026-04-28T21:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:39:17","slug":"chris-brown-fighting-to-keep-rihanna-dv-arrest-out-of-housekeeper-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402148\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Brown Fighting to Keep Rihanna DV Arrest Out of Housekeeper Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Brown
\n Fighting to Keep Rihanna DV Arrest
\n Out of Court Battle With Ex-Housekeeper<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n April 28, 2026
\n 10:38 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n April 28, 2026
\n 11:46 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Chris Brown<\/a>‘s former housekeeper is fighting his effort to block any talk about his arrest for assaulting Rihanna<\/a> at their upcoming trial … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, Maria Avila — who is suing the singer after she claims he should be held responsible for her being mauled by a dog at his L.A. home in 2020 — asked a judge not to limit evidence being introduced about Chris’ past domestic violence or assault allegations.<\/p>\n

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Maria — who is seeking $90 million in damages — pointed out that Chris pled guilty to felony assault in connection with a domestic violence dispute involving Rihanna in 2009.<\/p>\n

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Chris claims the jury should not hear about it because the information is irrelevant and could prejudice them against him.<\/p>\n

The musician’s lawyer said any talk of domestic violence, “particularly those that occurred more than a decade ago and bear no connection to the subject incident, is improper, irrelevant, and unduly prejudicial.”<\/p>\n

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Maria argued that the information could be relevant during the trial and should at least be available to use to attack his credibility.<\/p>\n

As TMZ previously reported, Chris denies the allegations of wrongdoing in the case and argues that his former housekeeper provoked the dog at his home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Brown Fighting to Keep Rihanna DV Arrest Out of Court Battle With Ex-Housekeeper Published April 28, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-402148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}