The horrifying details of what allegedly happened the night Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna
In this excerpt from "The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory" author John Seabrook describes the night of February 8, 2009, when singer Rihanna left a pre-Grammy party with then-boyfriend singer Chris Brown, based on a police officer's account in an affidavit.
Chris Brown eventually pled guilty to a felony for the assault. On March 20, 2015, Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin ended Brown's six-year felony probation.
Excerpted from The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory by John Seabrook. Copyright © 2015 by John Seabrook. With permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.