{"id":52838,"date":"2026-07-24T12:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=52838"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:53:52","slug":"singer-chris-brown-pleads-guilty-to-affray-over-london-club-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2026\/07\/24\/singer-chris-brown-pleads-guilty-to-affray-over-london-club-confrontation\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Chris Brown pleads guilty to affray over London club confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The R&amp;B singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/chris-brown\">Chris Brown<\/a> has pleaded guilty to affray after a confrontation at a central London club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 37-year-old had been facing trial later this year over an allegation he attacked a former friend with a bottle at the Tape private members\u2019 club in Mayfair in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday at Southwark crown court, a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Abraham Diaw was dropped, along with charges of possessing an offensive weapon \u2013 a bottle \u2013 in a public place and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown will be sentenced on 26 October for the affray charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The singer, wearing a tan suit, gold-rimmed sunglasses and a St Louis Cardinals baseball hat, was flanked by security guards as he arrived at court, where a small group of fans had gathered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At earlier hearings, Brown was ordered to pay a \u00a35m security fee as part of his bail conditions, which also allowed him to go on a world tour as long as he surrendered his passport on arrival in each country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was released on bail again on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>More details soon \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The R&amp;B singer Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to affray after a confrontation at a central London club. The 37-year-old had been facing trial later this year over an allegation he attacked a former friend with a bottle at the Tape private members\u2019 club in Mayfair in 2023. On Friday at Southwark crown court, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"theguardian","_post_source_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[183,11866,9986,9194,3576,10507,9478,9026,5918,9997,3684,8541,2604,5655,6838,7192,11581,3954,36,7653],"class_list":["post-52838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-assault","tag-bail","tag-central-london","tag-charges","tag-chris-brown","tag-court","tag-dropped","tag-fans","tag-gold","tag-guilty","tag-london","tag-mayfair","tag-passport","tag-security","tag-singer","tag-st-louis","tag-trial","tag-will","tag-world","tag-world-tour"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52840,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838\/revisions\/52840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}