On Monday, Rihanna was photographed having a good time in her home country of Barbados with her boyfriend, A$AP Rocky.
Prior to her Fenty Beauty Caribbean launch party, the 36-year-old Stay hitmaker and the 36-year-old rapper partied at Zouk nightclub. In a grey t-shirt and shorts set, Rihanna flaunted her toned legs while accessorizing with stiletto shoes. The pair, who are parents to two-year-old RZA Athelston and one-year-old Riot Rose, went outside to get hotdogs and burgers before stopping to take pictures with Ras the Burger Guy. Rocky has had a successful start to the week. On Tuesday, his trial for allegedly shooting plaintiff and former buddy A$AP Relli was postponed so that he could attend a benefit performance in Thailand.
Rihanna, 36, was pictured enjoying a night out with boyfriend A$AP Rocky, 36, in her native Barbados on Monday.
The Stay hitmaker and the rapper partied at Zouk nightclub ahead of her Fenty Beauty Caribbean launch event.
The superstar showed off her toned legs in a grey t-shirt and shorts combo, which she paired with strappy heels.
Rihanna accessorized her ensemble with many gold necklaces and a Dior purse. She wore large sunglasses to protect her eyes and pushed her raven curls up in a stylishly disheveled updo. Rocky, meanwhile, was dressed in pastel yellow slacks, a white t-shirt, and yellow work boots. As they shared a bite to eat, the two of them giggled. To help her lover, who is facing a jury trial for allegedly shooting a former friend and music collaborator after an altercation, Rihanna was summoned by a Los Angeles judge to appear in criminal court on Tuesday.At a hearing where the trial was postponed for the third time, until January, LA Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold told Rocky’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, that “she can come if she wants to.” The court asked Tacopina if “the mother of (Rocky’s) two children” will be present at the trial, which is anticipated to last seven to 10 days, without mentioning Rihanna by name. She might show up for the start, but it’s unlikely that she would stay for the entire trial, Tacopina said, adding that he didn’t know if she would be in court.
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The duo — who share sons RZA Athelston, two, and Riot Rose, one — grabbed hotdogs and burgers outside
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It’s been a good start of the week for Rocky, whose trial for allegedly shooting a former friend and plaintiff A$AP Relli was postponed on Tuesday, so that he can perform at benefit concert in Thailand
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Rihanna’s raven curls were pulled up into a fashionably messy updo
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She completed her look with a Dior purse
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She also rocked a number of gold necklaces
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Meanwhile Rocky sported a white t-shirt and pastel yellow pants along with matching yellow worker boots
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The duo laughed it up together while enjoying a bite to eat
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The couple were seen ordering from a food stand
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Rihanna had her arms around her boyfriend
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky keep it cute and casual out together
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Judge Arnold told the defense lawyer and prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Paul Przelomiec, that Rocky – real name Rakim Mayers – shouldn’t expect any star treatment at his trial.
‘The fact that Mr. Mayers is a celebrity will make no difference in this court,’ he said.
‘He is going to be treated like anybody else.’
Rocky’s trial date was continued from November 12 to January 21 to allow for the prosecution and defense to exchange witness lists and to assemble discovery evidence.
The judge reluctantly granted the continuance on Tuesday, noting that the trial had already been postponed twice.
But he warned both attorneys that he would tolerate no more delays saying: ‘I want jury selection to start on January 21.’
Rocky – who was not at the court in downtown LA Tuesday – has pleaded not guilty to two charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and he’s facing up to eight years in jail if convicted of both felonies.
The charges stem from an altercation in Hollywood in November 2021 between Rocky and fellow rapper Terell Ephron, whose stage name is A$AP Relli and who was a member with Rocky in the ASAP Mob rap group that started in Harlem in 2006.
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They posed with Ras the Burger guy
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On Tuesday, a Los Angeles judge invited Rihanna to come to criminal court to support her boyfriend at his upcoming jury trial for allegedly shooting a former friend and music partner during an argument
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‘If she wants to come she can come,’ LA Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold told Rocky’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, at a hearing where the trial was delayed – for a third time – till January
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Without using Rihanna’s name, the judge asked Tacopina if ‘the mother of (Rocky’s) two children’ would be attending the trial, which is expected to last between seven to ten days
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Tacopina said he didn’t know if she would be in court, but added that while she may come for the start, it’s unlikely she’d be there for the whole trial
Judge Arnold told the defense lawyer and prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Paul Przelomiec, that Rocky – real name Rakim Mayers – shouldn’t expect any star treatment at his trialAt his preliminary hearing last November, prosecutors presented surveillance camera footage and testimony from Ephron and cops to support their allegation that during the argument, Rocky pointed a handgun at Ephron then fired it twice toward him, injuring his hand.
Ephron himself testified that Rocky held the gun to his stomach and said ‘I’ll kill you right now,’ before firing off rounds.
Rocky’s attorney Tacopina – who has repped Donald Trump in some of the ex-President’s high-profile cases – challenged the prosecution’s case, said there wasn’t enough proof that a shooting had even happened and called the surveillance video evidence and witness testimony ‘inconclusive.’
But at the end of the preliminary hearing, Judge M.L. Villar decided that ‘the totality of the video and testimony shows there is sufficient evidence for the defendant to go to trial.’
Ephron has filed a separate civil assault and battery lawsuit in which his attorneys say that Rocky, ‘pulled out a handgun and purposefully pointed it in the direction of (Ephron) and fired multiple shots.’
Adding that Ephron was ‘in fear for his life,’ the suit says that he was ‘struck by bullet projectile/fragments’ causing him injuries that required medical attention.
Rocky was arrested in April 2022 at LAX airport as he stepped off a private plane from Barbados where he had been on vacation with multiple Grammy-winner Rihanna.
Cops held him for a few hours on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, then released him on the $550,000 bail and sent the case to the LA District Attorney’s office to prosecute.
It wasn’t till the following August that LA DA George Gascon decided that the charges were serious enough to press for felony status, rather than misdemeanor which would have meant only a maximum of one year jail time for each count.
‘The fact that Mr. Mayers is a celebrity will make no difference in this court,’ he said. ‘He is going to be treated like anybody else’
Rocky and fellow rapper Terell Ephron, whose stage name is A$AP Relli and who joined Rocky in the ASAP Mob rap group that began in Harlem in 2006, got into a fight in Hollywood in November 2021, which is the basis for the charges.
A$AP Rocky joyfully commemorates the first birthday of his son Riot Rose.
A protective order also requires Rocky to keep at least 100 feet away from Ephron, who is suing Mayers and Tacopina for defamation.
Ephron’s attorneys contend in that defamation case that Rocky and Tacopina falsely accused him of being a “liar, money-grabber, and an extortionist” while defending the civil assault case.
Tacopina requested the court to put the defamation case on hold until the jury verdict in Rocky’s criminal assault counts was rendered, dismissing it as a mere “publicity stunt.”
The results of the criminal trial have already put Ephron’s civil assault case against Rocky on hold.