Police found no guns, no drugs and no diamond cross necklace inside Chris Brown's hilltop mansion during a filmed police search, the singer's lawyer Mark Geragos said Friday.
"As far as I can tell, there were no drugs found. As far as I can tell, there were no guns found in the house," Geragos said at a press conference.
"There was no jewelry found in the house that matched what she described," he added, referring to the diamond cross necklace that accuser Baylee Curran said she was admiring when Brown allegedly pointed a gun at her face around 3 a.m. Tuesday.
In a bizarre twist, Geragos said Curran, 24, might have a personal connection to Nia Guzman, the Texas model now locked in a bitter custody dispute with Brown over their toddler daughter Royalty.
"One of the things we're investigating is that there are now reports the accuser has a relationship with the mother of his child," Geragos said.
"What's particularly disturbing to me is that this comes on the heels of a custody battle that he won — and that the lawyer in Houston who represented the mother of Royalty immediately came out and was making statements.”
Guzman's lawyer Carl Moore spoke to E! News as the standoff unfolded at Brown’s Tarzana, Calif., house before the singer’s arrest for felony assault with a deadly weapon. Moore said Royalty was at the house when Curran called 911, according to E! News
"That is categorically false. She was not in the house," Geragos said Friday.
"I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but that certainly would be one angle," Geragos said, referring to a possible link between Curran and Guzman.
Geragos said his client was "completely cooperative" with cops during their search Tuesday and even unlocked "certain items" for closer inspection.
Six witnesses including the singer Ray J spoke to police and none corroborated Curran's story about Brown threatening her with a gun, according to Geragos.
"Nothing happened. This woman got irate when she was asked to leave,” Geragos said. “She was acting in an erratic manner.”
Geragos said he was in possession of two text messages allegedly sent by Curran before she was picked up from Brown's house.
He said one text called Brown a "motherf---er" who was "going to go down" and the other said "I'm going to say he tried to shoot me."
If authenticated, the texts would prove this was a "setup," and Brown could then call for a criminal investigation of Curran, he said.
Brown, 27, was booked Tuesday night and released on $250,000 bail.
Geragos declined to elaborate on why he believes authorities decided to arrest his client.
Earlier Friday, the celebrity website TMZ.com reported Mary Murray, the district attorney who prosecuted Brown for his 2009 felony assault on Rihanna, was a "key player" in the decision to arrest Brown.
"All I know is that at a certain point there was a statement made to me that 'We're going to arrest him,'" Geragos said Friday. "I have a great deal of affection for Mary, and I have not talked to Mary."
Speaking to the Daily News Tuesday, Curran said Brown pointed the gun at her and screamed at her to get out of his house as she admired the necklace.
Police responded around 3 a.m. but were denied entry as Brown holed up inside and posted defiant videos on social media that spurred a larger police response and dozens of media cameras that broadcast the standoff on TV.
Geragos said the scene was "like something out of the siege at Fallujah."
"Y'all are going to stop playing me like I'm the villain out here, like I'm going crazy. I'm not," the Grammy winner said in one video posted on Instagram. "When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you can walk right up in here, and you're going to see nothing, you idiots."
Brown said he'd been awakened by helicopters and had done nothing wrong.
"I ain't did s---, I ain't gonna do s---, and it's always going to be f--- the police," he said. "Black lives matter."
Curran, 24, said she was a guest at Brown's house for a party that included tattooing and hot tubbing when she walked into a room where an older white man was selling jewelry.
She said the men in the room "just went crazy" as she admired the cross necklace.
"Then Chris took out his gun and said, 'Get the f--k out of the house,'" she told The News.
"My adrenaline was pumping, of course. I was afraid for my life," Curran claimed. "I'm not sure where he got the gun. It looked to me like he took it from his side. Then it was in my face, and it was terrifying."
Curran later said she felt "vindicated" by Brown's arrest but several ex-associates stepped forward to question her credibility.
Former friend Rachel Getachew got a restraining order against Curran after traveling with her and another woman, Julia Parle, to New York in October 2013.
Getachew said Curran and Parle stormed her room at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, stole her purse and made off with her wallet — leading her to file a report with the NYPD.
A former male roommate said Curran falsely accused him of threatening to hire a hit man to kill her.
Curran tried to get a permanent restraining order against the man, Princeton Roseborough, but a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge dismissed the case after Roseborough filed a sworn statement denying her claims and she was a no-show in court.
Ex-friend Angel Monroe told The News on Thursday she believed Curran was "obsessed" with Brown.
She said they met him on the red carpet of the Billboard Music Awards in 2012 and Curran tried to find him again that night during the after-parties.
"She was obsessed with Chris Brown," said Monroe, a model and musician. "She had met him before at a party. She always had a thing for him."
Curran, who was stripped of her Miss California Regional crown in July over alleged breach of contract, denied she was infatuated with the "Kiss Kiss" singer.
"Never been obsessed with him," Curran said in a text to The News Thursday. "Never romantic feelings."
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