Chris Brown leaves Southwark Crown Court where he entered a plea of not guilty June 20, 2025, over an alleged assault in February 2023 of a man in a Mayfair night club in London. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Friday. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Musician Chris Brown pleaded guilty Friday to a downgraded charge in the assault of a music producer at a London nightclub in 2023.
Brown, 37, pleaded guilty to a single charge of affray, or threatening violence. He originally faced a more serious charge of attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm, which he pleaded not guilty to in July.
Brown’s vocal coach, Omololu Akinlolu, also pleaded guilty to affray in exchange for having the more severe charge dropped. The pair would have gone to trial in October had the agreement not been reached, The New York Times reported.
Each man faces up to three years in prison for the affray charge.
The incident happened at the private Tape club in Hanover Square, Mayfair, after Brown performed at Principality Stadium in Cardiff.
Prosecutors said brown hit music producer Abraham Diaw twice over the head with a bottle. They said Akinlolu then joined in on the attack, punching Diaw in the head.
Diaw was treated at the hospital with head and knee injuries.
Claire Campbell, the crown prosecutor at Crown Prosecution Service London South, said the attack was “vicious and unprovoked,” The Guardian reported.
“This kind of violence is entirely unacceptable, and the Crown Prosecution Service will work tirelessly — with the police and partners across the criminal justice system — to pursue cases like this and prove that no one is above the law,” she said.
