US rapper Chris Brown denied entry to Australia for concert tour due to violent rap sheet

RAPPER Chris Brown will be banned from touring Australia because of his ­attack on his former girlfriend, recording artist Rihanna.

R&B singer Chris Brown listens to the court proceedings as he is arraigned on assault charges in the Los Angeles Superior Court on March 5, 2009. Brown was charged with assaulting his pop-star girlfriend Rihanna as gruesome details about the alleged attack emerged for the first time. Brown, 19, appeared in court for arraignment on the charges, which came after he allegedly subjected Barbados-born Rihanna to a savage beating in the early hours of February 8. The incident shocked the music world and left Rihanna nursing cuts and bruises to her face, forcing her to cancel a scheduled performance at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles later February 8. POOL/BOB CHAMBERLAIN

RAPPER Chris Brown will be banned from touring Australia because of his ­attack on his former girlfriend, Rihanna.

Brown was convicted of assault in 2009 for bashing the singer, threatening to kill her and biting her ear.

Australian officials issued Brown with a formal notice of their intention to refuse his visa application on character grounds on Friday night. He now has 28 days to ­explain why he should be ­allowed into the country.

Tickets for his tour go on sale tomorrow.

Previously banned from entering Britain and Canada, he has already toured Australia since his conviction for bashing Rihanna.

According to a police affidavit filed at the time of ­assault, Brown and Rihanna got into a fight after she checked his phone and found a text message from another woman.

“I’m going to beat the s*** out of you when we get home. You wait and see,’’ he told her. “You just did the stupidest thing ever. Now I’m really going to kill you.”

The picture of pop star Rihanna after Chris Brown assaulted her.

Chris Brown was convicted for assaulting his now former girlfriend, singer Rihanna.

Brown stopped his car as they continued to argue and attempted to push Rihanna out while she was still strapped in. He then pushed Rihanna’s head against the window, punched her with his right hand and continued driving while assaulting her. Police said he also bit her on the ear.

The affidavit was filed as part of a search warrant ­request for the phone records of Brown, Rihanna and her assistant.

Brown allegedly threatened to kill Rihanna after she pretended to leave a phone message with her assistant.

Two years ago, he argued his year-long stint in domestic violence counselling had helped him understand what he did was wrong.

“I think it is just proving myself once again and me being a man. Knowing what I did was wrong and never doing it again,” he said.

“As far as she (Rihanna) and I are concerned, she knows my heart and I know her heart. I am not really focused on the negative, everything is positive for me.’’

Chris Brown’s Australian tour is in question after he was denied entry to Australia. Picture: Kin Cheung

Brown was photographed in June having a screaming match with another ex-girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, ­before pushing his way past her friends to get in the back seat of a car she was in.

After he was ejected from her car, he turned up at her house screaming at 3.30am, forcing neighbours to call police.

At a Christmas concert tour last year he called her a “b***h’’.

“How many single ­ladies we got in here ­tonight?” he asked. “Well, I’m single too. F*** that b***h.”

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton refused to comment on the rapper’s case, saying he could not discuss individual cases.

“However, speaking in general terms I personally find domestic violence ­abhorrent. As a society we must be aware of the great harm that domestic violence causes to women, families and our community,” he said.

“We have to change our attitudes and culture and ­ensure family violence is just not acceptable in today’s Australia.”

Activist group Get Up has launched an online petition calling for Brown’s tour to be banned because it would send a message that “if you brutally beat a woman, in a short amount of time you will be forgiven, or even celebrated”.

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