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Rihanna and Chris Brown perform together at Madison Square Garden in December. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Chris Brown was charged in L.A. yesterday with two felonies -- assault likely to cause great bodily injury, and making criminal threats -- in connection with the alleged beating of girlfriend Rihanna the night before the Grammys. A detective's affidavit in the charging documents states that the singers started fighting when she found a text from another woman on his cellphone; he allegedly pushed her head against the car window, repeatedly punched and bit her, and later tried to choke her and threatened to kill her. If convicted, Brown faces anything from probation to more than four years in state prison.