Chris Brown pleads not guilty of having beaten the music producer with a bottle in London Nightclub in 2023

London – The singer’s winner of a Grammy, Chris Brown, pleaded not Friday on Friday to an accusation linked to the serious blows of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.

Brown, 36, wearing a blue costume, a white shirt and black mounts, pleaded not guilty to Southwark Crown runs to a charge of attempted bodily bodily lesions with intention.

Brown’s friend and musician colleague Omololu Akinlolu, 38, who occurs under the name of “Hoody Baby”, pleaded not guilty to the same accusation.

Brown was Arrested in a Manchester hotel, in the north of the hotel in England last month. It was the first time he had returned to Great Britain since the alleged incident, reports the reuters news agency.

The prosecutors said that Brown and Akinlolu had attacked producer Abe Diaw in a bar in the Bande’s nightclub in the chic Mayfair district in February 2023. Brown would have launched an unsuccessful attack on Diaw and hit him several times with a bottle, then hit and launched it.

The attack was taken on a surveillance camera in front of a club full of people, prosecutors said.

Brown was released last month under a deposit of 5 million pounds ($ 6.75 million), which allowed him to start his world tour “Breezy Bowl XX” earlier this month.

Brown, who broke into the music scene in adolescence in 2005, won his first Grammy for the best R&B album in 2011 for “Fame”, then won his second in the same category for “11:11 (Deluxe)” earlier this year.

His successes include songs such as “Run It”, “Kiss Kiss” and “Without You”.

He is currently going around the United Kingdom, playing this weekend in London with subsequent shows in Ireland, Scotland, France and Portugal. He returned to North America at the end of July to play Miami, before moving through the United States with a two-night stop in Toronto along the way.

His trial was scheduled for October 2026.

Brown has a history of legal problems dating back to his conviction for the crime during the 2009 assault by his girlfriend at the time Rihanna. He pleaded guilty to criminal assault at the time. In 2014, Brown pleaded guilty of having struck a man Outside a Washington hotel, DC. In 2024, Brown, as well as his paying entourage, would have beaten several men who attended his concert in Texas.

Earlier this year, Brown continued Warner Bros. Discovery for defamation on the labeling of the singer as an attacker in the 2024 documentary “Chris Brown: A History of Violence”.