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Chris Brown, Rapper Young Lo Named In Sexual Assault Suit

An anonymous woman, represented by high-powered attorney Gloria Allred, filed a civil suit yesterday in Los Angeles with allegations of being repeatedly raped and assaulted at Brown's home.
Singer Chris Brown in a Los Angeles court for a probation hearing in 2014, after pleading guilty to assaulting Rihanna.

R&B singer Chris Brown, rapper Young Lo, and an unknown woman are being sued in a civil lawsuit by a woman who alleges that she was repeatedly raped at Brown's house in Los Angeles last year.

Gloria Allred — the prominent civil rights attorney who has also represented women who have accused President Trump, Bill Cosby and Roy Moore — filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court yesterday on behalf of the anonymous woman, who is being called Jane Doe.

In a held yesterday, Allred called her client's allegations "one of the most horrific sexual assault cases that I have ever seen ... Jane

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