EXCLUSIVE: New Photos Of A Beaten & Battered Rihanna Leaked
Oct. 15 2010, Published 1:39 p.m. ET
Never-before-seen images of a battered Rihanna -- reportedly taken at a hospital after her fight with Chris Brown -- have leaked.
Breaking Celebrity News has seen the four images that were offered to this site for publication. We declined.
The photos were taken in a Los Angeles emergency room where Rihanna was being treated after she was assaulted the night of the Grammy awards in February 2009, according to an anonymous source who would not identify themselves to Breaking Celebrity News.
"They were taken at the hospital," admitted the source, who has been shopping the photos to various other media outlets.
The possible release of the stills would almost certainly cause more outrage. Less graphic images were published online 11 days after the couple's fight nearly two years ago.
After that leak, the Los Angeles Police Department launched an internal investigation and asked for the public's help in finding the source of the photographs.
The photos showed to Breaking Celebrity News are different to those previously published.
While three of the stills feature Rihanna, a fourth is of Brown seated in a hospital room pictured with a small lesion on his upper lip.
The battered songstress, whose real name is Robyn Fenty, is pictured with large welts above each of her eyebrows, marks on both of her cheeks and a split lip.
The most graphic photo is a close-up; her left eye bloodied and bruised, with four lesions on her face and multiple cuts on her bottom lip.
Rihanna, wearing a grey tank top with her short hair pushed off her face, is also photographed in a profile position, showing the right side of her face.
A ruler is being held up which shows the reddish swelling to span two inches - from the bottom of her eye almost all