Chris Brown may soon be doing backbreaking grunt work in the hot sun, but he’s not letting the prospect of a little hard labor get him down.
The slap-happy R&B crooner partied the night away Tuesday, just hours after he was sentenced to work for the vicious beating he delivered to gal pal Rihanna on Feb. 8.
He was spotted with a male friend and a woman whom “he seemed to be clearly dating” at a posh LA hot spot, Guys and Dolls Lounge, according to E! News.
“He was in a great mood,” E! reported. “He jumped on the top of the back booth and did Michael Jackson’s ‘Dirty Diana.’ He danced on top of the booth all night.”
Meanwhile, it was revealed that as part of his sentence for the attack, Brown will have to go into group therapy to talk about his violent demons.
He’ll go into the court-ordered treatment in Richmond, Va., where a Los Angeles judge has allowed the Virgina native to serve his community-service sentence.
The group sessions will be conducted by a Virginia organization called Commonwealth Catholic Charities.
The organization’s Web site described the kind of help Brown will get for his hard-hitting hands in its Batterer’s Intervention Program.
It says he’ll stop being a brutal abuser only if he admits to himself he has a problem.
“BIP frequently tests and challenges each group member’s behavior,” the charity says on its site. “Progress is made only if the abuser is self-accountable for all behaviors, and develops the flexibility to make behavioral changes.”
One thing that Brown, 20, may talk about in the group sessions is his unhappy childhood.
According to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Brown told detectives probing the assault case against him that he has firsthand experience with violence and family abuse.
“The defendant stated that when he was growing up he saw violence in his own household,” said a filing in the case. “And he does not want to ‘carry on that cycle.’ ”
Brown was sentenced to six months of hard community service by a Los Angeles court for beating up Rihanna after a Grammy Awards party.
The Richmond police chief promised that Brown would spend his time doing arduous labor hauling trash and cleaning up properties.
Yesterday, a spokesman for the Richmond police said no date has yet been set for Brown to begin his work.