Chris Brown in custody in Paris over rape allegation, French police say

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Singer Chris Brown and two other people are in custody in Paris after a woman filed a rape complaint&comma; French officials have said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Grammy-winning singer was detained yesterday on potential charges of aggravated rape and drug infractions and remained in custody&comma; a judicial official said today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Investigators have another two days to decide whether to let him go or file preliminary charges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brown&&num;8217&semi;s publicists at Sony Music would not comment today on the complaint or say what Brown&comma; 29&comma; was doing in Paris&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His US lawyer&comma; Mark Geragos&comma; did not immediately respond to requests for comment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brown has been in repeated legal trouble since pleading guilty to the felony assault in 2009 of his then-girlfriend&comma; Rihanna&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He completed his probation in that case in 2015&comma; but has continued to have run-ins with police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The woman who filed the Paris complaint said she met Brown and his friends overnight January 15-16 at the club Le Crystal in the eighth arrondissement near the Champs-Elysees&comma; and then they all went to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel near the Concorde Plaza in central Paris&comma; according to the official&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Mandarin Oriental would not comment on the investigation&comma; and Le Crystal could not immediately be reached&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There was no unusual activity outside either site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of Brown&&num;8217&semi;s bodyguards is among the others detained in the Paris investigation&comma; according to the official&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They are being held by judicial police in the 17th arrondissement of northwest Paris&comma; the official said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The detention was originally reported by French gossip magazine Closer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brown&comma; who burst onto the music scene as a teen&comma; won a Grammy Award in 2011 for best R&amp&semi;B album for F&period;A&period;M&period;E&period; and has nominations for other works&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His hits include Look At Me Now&comma; Run It&comma; and numerous collaborations with other stars&comma; including Post To Be and last year&&num;8217&semi;s Freak Friday with Lil Dicky&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He released a new single earlier this month and has a new album coming this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Six of his albums have gone platinum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He retains a huge following of devoted fans&comma; including nearly 50 million followers on Instagram&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He posted an Instagram photo yesterday from Paris appearing to show him at a nightclub&comma; among several recent posts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Followers responded with mixed messages to the rape accusation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is the latest legal trouble for Brown&comma; who was arrested at the end of a concert last year to face a felony battery charge involving a nightclub photographer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2013&comma; Brown was charged with misdemeanor assault after he was accused of striking a man outside a Washington&comma; DC&comma; hotel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was ordered into rehab but was dismissed for violating facility rules&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brown spent two and a half months in custody&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After he completed court-ordered anger-management classes&comma; Brown was accused of throwing a brick at his mother&&num;8217&semi;s car following a counseling session&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After Brown posted a picture to his Instagram followers in January 2018 showing his three-year-old daughter&comma; Royalty&comma; 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