Rapper Chris Brown was arrested in Paris Monday on suspicion of rape, according to French police.
Officials told AP and Reuters that the singer was detained along with two other people — one of whom is the star’s bodyguard — after a 24-year-old woman filed a rape complaint.
French tabloid Closer says the complaint alleges that Brown raped the woman on Jan. 15 after meeting him at the Le Crystal nightclub, just off the Champs-Elysees.
The complaint was filed with police in a district in northwest Paris. Authorities can detain the singer for another 48 hours before having to decide whether or not to file charges.
Brown has faced multiple legal problems linked to violence against women, and he pleaded guilty to the felony assault in 2009 of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. He completed his probation in that case in 2015.
Brown’s publicist at Sony Music has yet to comment on the reports.
Source: news.vice.com
