Rihanna brings kids RZA, 2, and Riot, 1, to A$AP Rockys assault trial for closing arguments
Under her umbrella.Rihanna brought her and A$AP Rocky’s two young children, RZA and Riot, to a Los Angeles court on Thursday, where closing arguments in the rapper’s gun assault trial were set to take place.
The “Love on the Brain” singer, 36, arrived outside the courthouse in a black escalade, emerging with RZA, 2, in her arms, while another individual carried one-year-old Riot.Wearing a black leather coat and over the calf python-print boots, Rihanna was shielded from the rain drenching LA Thursday morning by her bodyguards who covered the Fenty Beauty founder with multiple umbrellas.Rihanna’s Thursday court visit marks the first time she has brought her and A$AP Rocky’s children to their father’s trial, which began on Jan.24.
She has attended the trial several other times.Rocky faces two felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm stemming from a November 2021 dust-up with his former friend A$AP Relli, who testified that Rocky confronted him outside a Hollywood parking garage and threatening him with a gun that he pulled from his waistband.“I’ll kill you right now,” Relli alleged Rocky told him while pointing the gun toward his stomach.
Relli said the hip-hop star then turned around and shot at him, though the bullet only grazed his left hand.Rocky’s former friend sought streatment for injured knuckles at a New York hospital days later.
A$AP Rocky has denied Relli’s accusations.On Friday, Rocky’s longtime friend and collaborator A$AP Twelvyy testified that the gun the rapper allegedly fired was a starter pistol, or prop gun.
“He walked around with a prop, like a starter pistol,” Twelvyy told the court.“I seen it on several occasions,” he said, adding that Relli knew the pistol wasn’t real.“He told him to shoot that fake-ass gun,” Twelvyy alleged said when questioned by the defense.Under cross-examination from Deputy District Attorney John Lewin, Twelvvy was asked if Rocky and Rihanna could damage his care...