After Chis Brown pled not guilty to assaulting Rihanna in a Los Angeles courtroom yesterday, Rihanna's attorney said something peculiar: Rihanna would like to bring the case to a rapid conclusion.
"I believe there are efforts by all of the parties to resolve the case expeditiously and fairly," said the lawyer, attorney Donald Etra. "She would be pleased if this was over quickly."
That would certainly benefit Chris, whose marketability as a famous R&B singer becomes less recoverable with each additional day the press writes about the beatdown he exacted onRihanna two months ago.
But why would Rihanna want to publicly help Brown escape the full consequences of his actions? Doing so opens her to charges she's helping enable Chris' abuse, and to speculation that she's as culpable in the attack as the pro-Chris PR campaign would have everyone believe.
Maybe Rihanna's team is worried that a lengthy, heavily-publicized he-said/she-said in court carries nearly as much risk for Rihanna as it does for Chris. It's hard, after all, to imagine Brown's reputation falling much further than where it was right after pictures of Rihanna's bruised face leaked online. Rihanna has more to lose. The singer has made conspicuous public appearances with other men in recent weeks, and will have trouble looking as independent and "over" Chris if she ends up spending months arguing with him in court over the specifics of what happened.
In all likelihood, Chris will take the plea deal everyone is buzzing about and Rihanna avoids talking about or being seen with him ever again. Chris accepts that the incident will retard his career; Rihanna will finally be able put the ordeal behind her — to the greatest extent possible, at least.
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