Chris Brown released on £5million BAIL

American Singer Chris Brown will be able to go on international tour while on £5million bail over an alleged bottle attack in a London nightclub.

His passport will be held by lawyers and police until he needs it in an elaborate arrangement that will allow him to fulfil tour dates in Europe, the US and Canada, a court heard.

The R&B superstar, 36, was arrested in Manchester last Thursday then charged over an alleged bottle attack at a nightclub in the capital in 2023.

The Go Crazy singer had flown in on a private jet hours earlier and was staying at the five-star Lowry Hotel in Salford when police swooped to arrest him.

Brown was charged with causing grievous bodily harm to music producer Abe Diaw during the alleged assault at the Tape club in Mayfair in February 2023.

The conditions of his bail mean that he must reside at an address in the UK and can only access his passport when he needed to travel for a tour date, Heidi Stonecliffe KC, prosecuting, said.

Two-time Grammy winner Brown – who did not appear in court for today’s bail application hearing – is set to kick off his 20-year anniversary tour next month.

He had planned gigs in Europe on June 8, 11 and 13 – with ten dates scheduled across Britain and Ireland from June 15, before further dates in the US.

Ms Stonecliffe told Southwark Crown Court his passport would be held by the police until his international dates, then it would be collected by a solicitor from law firm Hickman & Rose, before being returned to Brown so he can travel to the US.

‘The passport is to then be lodged with a US lawyer named Mr Matthew Cayman. We have checked his details and he does exist,’ Ms Stonecliffe said.

‘It will be held by Mr Cayman until August.

‘Then Mr Brown travels to Canada.

‘It will be held by Mr Cayman during his US tour then Mr Brown returns to the UK and his passport will then be held by a solicitor.

‘What we then propose is that we have a further case management hearing on October 24.’

Other bail conditions include not to attend the Tape nightclub or contact his co-accused, Dallas rapper Omolulu Akinlolu, 38, the complainant or any witnesses.

Before agreeing to the conditions, judge Tony Baumgartner said he needed some more information about Brown’s net worth.

‘The one concern I have is the defendant leaving the jurisdiction then returning to the jurisdiction,’ he said.

‘What I don’t have is any feel for the defendant’s net worth and how the security stands against that.

‘It might be a lot of money to him or not a lot of money to him.’

Sallie Bennett-Jenkins KC, said that during a break in proceedings she had been ‘waking up a lot of people across the west coast of America’ to establish Brown’s net worth.