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Chris Brown's ex-housekeeper is entitled to an eye-watering amount of his tour money after she was attacked by his dog.
Maria Avila was awarded almost $13 million after a jury found Brown liable over a 2020 dog attack at his Los Angeles home that left her with serious injuries.
Now, court documents obtained by TMZ reveal that the judge overseeing the case has granted Avila's request to assign money Brown receives from royalties and tour income toward satisfying the judgment.
Brown objected to the request, but the judge granted it anyway.
It is unclear whether the singer will seek reconsideration or appeal the ruling.
The latest development follows a two-week trial in Los Angeles over the attack involving a 200lb Caucasian shepherd named Hades.
Avila was emptying trash at Brown's home in Tarzana, California, when the dog attacked her in 2020, BBC News reported.
She said Hades ripped off "large chunks of her skin," leaving her with permanent facial disfigurement, scarring, vision loss and nerve damage.
A jury ultimately found in Avila's favor, with Brown and his company, Black Pyramid LLC, ordered to pay her $13 million for negligence.
The new ruling does not mean Avila has already received Brown's tour or royalty income. Instead, it allows that income to be assigned toward satisfying the outstanding judgment.
Brown denied allegations of wrongdoing, although he admitted some culpability before the trial began.
He disputed the extent of Avila's injuries and contended that she was partially responsible for what happened.
The singer claimed the dog was kept for security purposes rather than being his personal pet.
Brown testified that he had warned Avila and her sister Patricia, who was also working at the property, that the dogs were "absolutely not" friendly and instructed them to go outside only when security personnel were present.
The sisters denied that conversation ever took place and said a language barrier would have made such an exchange unlikely.
Brown told the jury the dog had been purchased and cared for by his security guards because of concerns about people breaking into the property. "I get a lot of stalker-type situations," he said.
During the trial, Brown said he was preparing to shower when he heard the dog growling and went downstairs.
He testified that he found Avila lying motionless and covered in "a lot of blood".
"The blood kind of freaked me out," Brown said.
He added that he was "in shock" when he followed his manager's advice to leave before emergency services arrived.
Per Rolling Stone, jurors heard testimony that Brown did not call emergency services or remain at the property because he feared a "media circus" if his voice was heard on the 911 call or he was there when police arrived.
His employees remained to care for Avila.
Speaking in Spanish through an interpreter, Avila told the court that she was left with severe scarring to her face and left arm.
Surgeons grafted skin from her abdomen to repair her arm, and she said she was left with limited mobility.
Avila showed jurors "a pattern of scars running from beneath her left eye up across her forehead" as well as the "raised and pitted skin" on her forearm.
The singer's ex-housekeeper testified that she had been unable to return to her job because of reduced strength in her arm.
She also said post-traumatic stress had left her unable to be around dogs.
Her sister Patricia was separately awarded $885,000, while Avila's husband, Oscar Olivo, received $50,000.
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