Chris Brown accused of punching Brazil's Kim Kardashian look-alike

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The new year has just begun and singer Chris Brown is being accused of punching a woman in the face during a party in his Las Vegas hotel suite.

The incident allegedly occurred after the R&B singer caught the woman taking his photo in the early hours of Saturday morning at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, TMZ reported.

A picture published by the website showed the woman with an obvious black eye.

Liziane Gutierrez, the alleged victim, who wanted to be identified by the website despite the accusations, told TMZ she had snuck her cellphone past Brown's security guards.

 

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After Brown spotted her taking his picture, she told TMZ, he yelled and punched her once in the face and took her phone.

Gutierrez, who is a Brazilian model, left the party, only calling police some hours later, and was not treated at hospital.

Vegas police confirmed to local news outlet Las Vegas Now that they were investigating Brown for battery and theft and that the incident was reported to them at 10.20am on January 2.

Brown posted a now deleted video to his Instagram that was first re-posted by celebrity gossip site, The Shade Room Inc, where he labeled Gutierrez as 'ugly' and denied her claims against him.