Rihanna looked sharp as she exited a Los Angeles court with beau A$AP Rocky on Thursday.
The 36-year-old singer-turned-business mogul modeled a trench coat and tan boots while leaving the courthouse with a bodyguard in tow.
Thursday marked her fourth appearance in support of her longtime boyfriend, 36, with whom she shares sons RZA, two, and Riot, one.
According to an account from TMZ, the Bajan songstress has been attempting to keep a low profile as she shows up to watch the proceedings unfold day after day.
A$AP, real name Rakim Athelaston Mayers, is on trial for allegedly shooting his former friend A$AP Relli in 2021.
The New York-bred rapper is being charged with two felony counts of ᴀssault with a semiautomatic weapon, and he has pleaded not guilty.
Rihanna, 36, looked sharp as she exited a Los Angeles court with beau A$AP Rocky on Thursday
The singer-turned-business mogul modeled a trench coat and tan boots while leaving the courthouse with a bodyguard in tow
Rihanna has reportedly been seated alongside Mayers’ mother and sister in the front row of the courtroom, with several security guards around them, throughout the trial.
She has stuck beside Rakim since his initial arrest in April 2022, which happened when the pair were returning to LAX after a vacation in Barbados.
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Prosecutors allege that on November 6, 2021, Mayers pointed a gun at his former friend during a confrontation, shooting at him and leaving him with minor injuries.
A$AP Relli, real name Terell Ephron, testified against Mayers at an earlier hearing, claiming that he held a gun to his stomach and threatened, ‘I’ll kill you right now,’ before firing at least four sH๏τs.
It is alleged that one of the sH๏τs hit Ephron’s hand, and that he reported the shooting the following day.
Two 9mm shell casings were recovered by Ephron after he returned to the scene of the alleged shooting, however police say the weapon Mayers allegedly fired was never found.
Earlier this month A$AP Rocky ‘respectfully declined’ a plea deal that would have seen him serve just six months in jail alongside a seven-year suspended sentence and three years of probation.
Ephron was a former friend and collaborator of Mayers. The pair struck up a friendship as teenagers while attending high school in New York.
They were members of the A$AP collective, a group of students who made music and created art together. A$AP Mob, which stands for ‘Always Strive And Prosper,’ was established in 2005, with Rocky joining in 2007.
Thursday marked her fourth appearance in support of her longtime boyfriend, with whom she shares sons RZA, two, and Riot, one
According to an account from TMZ, the Bajan songstress has been attempting to keep a low profile as she shows up to watch the proceedings unfold day after day
The New York-bred rapper is being charged with two felony counts of ᴀssault with a semiautomatic weapon, and he has pleaded not guilty
Rihanna has reportedly been seated alongside Mayers’ mother and sister in the front row of the courtroom, with several security guards around them, throughout the trial
She has stuck beside Rakim since his initial arrest in April 2022, which happened when the pair were returning to LAX after a vacation in Barbados
Ephron said their friendship continued as Mayers’ fame grew, but began to decline when the D.M.B. music artist started backing out of business deals.
At pre-trial hearings in November, Mayers’ attorneys attempted to spare him a trial, arguing that surveillance video of the rapper holding a gun should not be permissible as evidence.
Prosecutors claim the video showed Mayers firing the weapon, which the rapper’s attorneys denied.
Detective Frank Flores of the Los Angeles Police Department testified at an earlier hearing that footage showed a gun in the rapper’s hand, but when pressed by the defense, he conceded a weapon was never recovered.