Celebrity / celebrity Rihanna, Brown Spend Weekend in Same Hotel Coincidence, or covert meeting? By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff Posted Jul 26, 2009 12:10 PM CDT Copied Chris Brown leaves his preliminary hearing after pleading guilty to one count of felony assault on Monday, June 22, 2009, in Los Angeles County Superior Court. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok) Rihanna and Chris Brown spent this weekend at separate rooms in the Trump Tower Hotel in Manhattan, the New York Post reports. The two weren’t seen together—which would be a violation of a restraining order issued against Brown—but left and returned to the hotel several times in separate chauffeured vehicles. Neither performer had any public professional obligations in New York this weekend, but Rihanna is thought to be house-shopping. (More celebrity stories.) Report an error