On Monday, Rihanna was photographed having a good time in her home country of Barbados with her boyfriend, A$AP Rocky.
Prior to her Fenty Beauty Caribbean launch party, the 36-year-old Stay hitmaker and the 36-year-old rapper partied at Zouk nightclub.
In a grey t-shirt and shorts set, Rihanna flaunted her toned legs while accessorizing with stiletto shoes.
The pair, who are parents to two-year-old RZA Athelston and one-year-old Riot Rose, went outside to get hotdogs and burgers before stopping to take pictures with Ras the Burger Guy.
Rocky has had a successful start to the week. On Tuesday, his trial for allegedly shooting plaintiff and former buddy A$AP Relli was postponed so that he could attend a benefit performance in Thailand.
Rihanna, 36, was pictured enjoying a night out with boyfriend A$AP Rocky, 36, in her native Barbados on Monday
The Stay hitmaker and the rapper partied at Zouk nightclub ahead of her Fenty Beauty Caribbean launch event
The celebrity wore a gray t-shirt and shorts with strappy heels to flaunt her toned legs.
Rihanna accessorized her ensemble with many gold necklaces and a Dior purse.
She wore large sunglasses to protect her eyes and pushed her raven curls up in a stylishly disheveled updo.
Rocky, meanwhile, was dressed in pastel yellow slacks, a white t-shirt, and yellow work boots.
As they shared a bite to eat, the two of them giggled.
To help her lover, who is facing a jury trial for allegedly shooting a former friend and music collaborator after an altercation, Rihanna was summoned by a Los Angeles judge to appear in criminal court on Tuesday.
At a hearing where the trial was postponed for the third time, until January, LA Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold told Rocky’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, that “she can come if she wants to.”
The court asked Tacopina if “the mother of (Rocky’s) two children” will be present at the trial, which is anticipated to last seven to 10 days, without mentioning Rihanna by name.
She might show up for the start, but it’s unlikely that she would stay for the entire trial, Tacopina said, adding that he didn’t know if she would be in court.
The duo — who share sons RZA Athelston, two, and Riot Rose, one — grabbed hotdogs and burgers outside
It’s been a good start of the week for Rocky, whose trial for allegedly shooting a former friend and plaintiff A$AP Relli was postponed on Tuesday, so that he can perform at benefit concert in Thailand
Rihanna’s raven curls were pulled up into a fashionably messy updo
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She completed her look with a Dior purse
She also rocked a number of gold necklaces
Meanwhile Rocky sported a white t-shirt and pastel yellow pants along with matching yellow worker boots
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The duo laughed it up together while enjoying a bite to eat
The couple were seen ordering from a food stand
Rihanna was embracing her boyfriend.
Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, should not expect celebrity treatment at his trial, Judge Arnold informed Deputy District Attorney Paul Przelomiec, the prosecution and defense attorney.
He declared, “Mr. Mayers’ celebrity status will not matter in this court.”
“He will be treated just like everyone else.”
To give the defense and prosecution time to gather discovery material and exchange witness lists, Rocky’s trial date was postponed from November 12 to January 21.
The trial had been postponed twice before, the judge noted, and grudgingly approved the continuance on Tuesday.
‘I want jury selection to commence on January 21.’ He cautioned both lawyers, however, that he would not put up with any more setbacks.
Rocky entered a not guilty plea to two accusations of assault with a semiautomatic pistol. If found guilty of both felonies, Rocky faces up to eight years in prison. Rocky was not present in the court in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.
According to the allegations, Rocky and fellow rapper Terell Ephron, whose stage name is A$AP Relli and who joined Rocky in the ASAP Mob rap group that began in Harlem in 2006, got into a fight in Hollywood in November 2021.
They posed with Ras the Burger guy
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles judge invited Rihanna to come to criminal court to support her boyfriend at his upcoming jury trial for allegedly shooting a former friend and music partner during an argument
‘If she wants to come she can come,’ LA Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold told Rocky’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, at a hearing where the trial was delayed – for a third time – till January
Without using Rihanna’s name, the judge asked Tacopina if ‘the mother of (Rocky’s) two children’ would be attending the trial, which is expected to last between seven to ten days
Tacopina said he didn’t know if she would be in court, but added that while she may come for the start, it’s unlikely she’d be there for the whole trial
Judge Arnold told the defense lawyer and prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Paul Przelomiec, that Rocky – real name Rakim Mayers – shouldn’t expect any star treatment at his trialProsecutors claimed that during the argument, Rocky pointed a revolver at Ephron and shot it twice toward him, hurting his hand. They backed up their claim with surveillance camera footage and Ephron and police testimony at his preliminary hearing last November.
According to Ephron’s own testimony, Rocky said, “I’ll kill you right now,” while holding the gun to his stomach and then started shooting.
Rocky’s attorney Tacopina – who has repped Donald Trump in some of the ex-President’s high-profile cases – challenged the prosecution’s case, said there wasn’t enough proof that a shooting had even happened and called the surveillance video evidence and witness testimony ‘inconclusive.’
But at the end of the preliminary hearing, Judge M.L. Villar decided that ‘the totality of the video and testimony shows there is sufficient evidence for the defendant to go to trial.’
Ephron has filed a separate civil assault and battery lawsuit in which his attorneys say that Rocky, ‘pulled out a handgun and purposefully pointed it in the direction of (Ephron) and fired multiple shots.’
Adding that Ephron was ‘in fear for his life,’ the suit says that he was ‘struck by bullet projectile/fragments’ causing him injuries that required medical attention.
Rocky was arrested in April 2022 at LAX airport as he stepped off a private plane from Barbados where he had been on vacation with multiple Grammy-winner Rihanna.
Cops held him for a few hours on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, then released him on the $550,000 bail and sent the case to the LA District Attorney’s office to prosecute.
It wasn’t till the following August that LA DA George Gascon decided that the charges were serious enough to press for felony status, rather than misdemeanor which would have meant only a maximum of one year jail time for each count.
‘The fact that Mr. Mayers is a celebrity will make no difference in this court,’ he said. ‘He is going to be treated like anybody else’
According to the allegations, Rocky and fellow rapper Terell Ephron, whose stage name is A$AP Relli and who joined Rocky in the ASAP Mob rap group that began in Harlem in 2006, got into a fight in Hollywood in November 2021.
Ephron, who is also suing Mayers and Tacopina for defamation, has a protective order against Rocky that requires him to keep at least 100 feet away from him.
As part of their defense of the civil assault lawsuit, Rocky and Tacopina are accused by Ephron’s attorneys of defaming him by falsely accusing him of being a “liar, money-grabber, and an extortionist.”
As a mere “publicity stunt,” Tacopina rejected the defamation action and requested that the court postpone it until the jury has rendered a verdict in Rocky’s criminal assault cases.
Until the criminal trial is over, Ephron’s civil assault case against Rocky is already on hold.