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In this Sept.21, 2018 file photo, singer Chris Brown performs during Philipp Plein's women's 2019 Spring-Summer collection, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy.
In this Sept.21, 2018 file photo, singer Chris Brown performs during Philipp Plein's women's 2019 Spring-Summer collection, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy.

• U.S. singer Chris Brown and two other people were released Tuesday from police custody after a woman filed a rape complaint against them, the Paris prosecutor's office said. The Grammy-winning singer was detained Monday with two other suspects on potential charges of aggravated rape and drug infractions. The Paris prosecutor's office said Brown has been authorized to leave France while the investigation is ongoing. A post late Tuesday on Brown's Instagram page strongly denied the accusations. "I wanna make it perfectly clear ...... this is false," the post said, in all capital letters. "For my daughter and my family this is so disprespectful and is against my character and morals!!!!!" Brown's publicists at Sony Music wouldn't comment Tuesday on the complaint or say what Brown, 29, was doing in Paris. His U.S. attorney, Mark Geragos, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Brown has been in repeated legal trouble since pleading guilty to the felony assault in 2009 of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. He completed his probation in that case in 2015, but has continued to have run-ins with police. The woman who filed the Paris complaint said she met Brown and his friends overnight Jan. 15-16 at the club Le Crystal in the 8th arrondissement near the Champs-Elysees, and then they all went to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel near the Concorde Plaza in central Paris, according to a police official. The Mandarin Oriental wouldn't comment on the investigation, and Le Crystal couldn't immediately be reached. There was no unusual activity outside either site. One of Brown's bodyguards was among the others detained in the Paris investigation, according to the official. The police official wasn't authorized to be publicly named to discuss the investigation. The detention was originally reported by French gossip magazine Closer.

• Fox News host Bret Baier and his family have survived a motor vehicle crash in Montana. In a statement released Tuesday, the anchor and executive editor of Fox News Channel's Special Report said that after a weekend of skiing he was driving to the airport on icy roads with his wife and their two sons Monday morning when they were "involved in a major car crash" in Bozeman. The 48-year-old said a passing motorist named Zach stopped and the family was able to climb out of the flipped vehicle. He said first responders got them to a hospital quickly, from which he says they left "banged up but alive." Fox said Baier was expected to be back on the air Tuesday night.

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In this March 7, 2016 file photo, FOX News town hall host Bret Baier talks to the crowd before the town hall with Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, and Hillary Clinton at the Gem Theatre, in Detroit.

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