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Oprah Winfrey has a message for pop princess Rihanna, who prosecutors say was beaten to a pulp last month by boyfriend Chris Brown: "He will hit you again."

Former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein's warning is starker: He also could kill you.

Fairstein compared the fist-happy crooner to O.J. Simpson, who repeatedly beat his wife without consequence before she was slain in 1994.

Rihanna's reported reconciliation with Brown after her Feb. 8 pummeling sparked an outpouring of debate, controversy and motherly advice.

"Love doesn't hurt," Winfrey said on her show Friday, while announcing she will dedicate a program this week to discussing domestic violence.

"I want to do a show about it, dedicated to all the Rihannas of the world."

Speaking directly into the camera, Winfrey said, "If a man hits you once, he will hit you again. He will hit you again."

Sex crimes expert Fairstein warned Rihanna - as 21-year-old Barbadian singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty is known - that she risks not just another bloodying, but her very life.

"Many of the circumstances in her case were like the early warning signs in the O.J. Simpson case," Fairstein said.

She pointed to several "red flags" that suggest Rihanna could be in the same danger as Nicole Brown Simpson was 15 years ago, getting hit repeatedly but not pressing charges and then reconciling with the former running back.

The allegation that Chris Brown choked Rihanna while saying "Now I'm really going to kill you" is a particularly bad sign, Fairstein said.

"Choking behavior is a very interesting factor. It's hands on, face-to-face. It's a very intimate type of violence," she said.

New police techniques that assess an offender's potential lethality based on a list of warning factors should be used in this case, Fairstein said.

The Daily News reported this weekend that Rihanna is torn about whether to testify against Brown next month.

According to a police affidavit, the couple began squabbling after Rihanna found a text message from one of Brown's ex-girlfriends on his cell phone as they were driving through Hollywood.

Brown then allegedly punched her repeatedly, tried to push her out of the car, bashed her head against the window, bit her ear and fingers, and choked her until she nearly passed out.

Brown, 19, entered no plea last week to two felony charges of assault and making criminal threats. He is out on $50,000 bail and returns to court April 6; his celebrity lawyer, Mark Geragos, is reportedly trying to work out a plea deal.

who cares? Is Oprah herself a paragorn of marital virtue?

davidylan:

who cares? Is Oprah herself a paragorn of marital virtue?

lol she is not just dat many pple listen to her when she speaks esp. women

@ topic

only Rhianna can decide wot she want eventually , oprah n co should just zip their mouth, she has already disappointed many folks by going back 2 chris so she might as well live her life

Last time I checked, Rihanna and chris brown are not 'married'. So, what do you mean by is Oprah a paragon of marital value? At least she's smart enough to know that it's better to not be in a relationship than be in an abusive one.

chiogo:

Last time I checked, Rihanna and chris brown are not 'married'. So, what do you mean by is Oprah a paragon of marital value? At least she's smart enough to know that it's better to not be in a relationship than be in an abusive one.

excatly. . . . and by God he will hit her again
im sure that wasnt the first time

tope2000:

excatly. . . . and by God he will hit her again
im sure that wasnt the first time

The first time was at your house, in London!

MrCrackles:

The first time was at your house, in London!

nope it was in urs in oxford. . . remember u told me

Any woman  (especially an unmarried one) that goes back to a man that hits her is a fool

I qualified it because there are married women who stay because of the kids or because they have no financial support (sad)
But here is a young women who probably makes my annual salary in a 48 hours
why on earth would she stay with this loser who beat her to a pulp ?
Stupid girl
Tells you what kind of family upbringing she had
what a pity!
she and her useless umbrella ella ella eh eh eh

chiogo and tope2000, i was abt to ask too. Oprah is right, sometime women allow some men to mess them up because of love. oh yeah love indeed.

glad Oprah plan to do a show abt the Robyns out there. she has every right to help talk sense into Robyn and other battered but stay with him women.

Wetin b una own self?
Is Rihanna Complaining?
Let this people be .

**osisi:

Any woman  (especially an unmarried one) that goes back to a man that hits her is a fool

I qualified it because there are married women who stay because of the kids or because they have no financial support (sad)
But here is a young women who probably makes my annual salary in a 48 hours
why on earth would she stay with this loser who beat her to a pulp ?
Stupid girl
Tells you what kind of family upbringing she had
what a pity!
she and her useless umbrella

i wonder
lmao . . . .@ useless umbrella ella ella eh eh

*Hauwa*:

chiogo and tope2000, i was abt to ask too. Oprah is right, sometime women allow some men to mess them up because of love. oh yeah love indeed.
glad Oprah plan to do a show abt the Robyns out there. she has every right to help talk sense into Robyn and other battered but stay with him women.

gbam

na our own because na man dey beat a girl like us

I asked my daughter to delete all her songs from her Ipod.
thankfully she was already thinking about that.

lol osisi the umbrella didn't protect her against the rain of slap and punch from the boy. he even went as far as biting her. such a bulldog

**osisi:

I asked my daughter to delete all her songs from her Ipod.
thankfully she was already thinking about that.

Haba

E reach that 1?

Wahala wa oooooooooooo

**osisi:

I asked my daughter to delete all her songs from her Ipod.
thankfully she was already thinking about that.

Oh lawd
I deleted all chris brown songs on mine too

tope2000:

Oh lawd
I deleted all chris brown songs on mine too

Tope na lie!

*Hauwa*:

lol osisi the umbrella didn't protect her against the rain of slap and punch from the boy. he even went as far as biting her. such a bulldog

Imagine?
I can understand someone making you so mad that you slap them but repeated punches,banging her head on things,choking her then biting her
the man is useless
see as im yellow like paw paw
that one na man?

MrCrackles:

Tope na lie!

lol. . . wetin? the boy dey disgut me jare
cant stand his voice in my ears

Haha y'all are crazy. I skip their songs when listening to my ipod now, don't have the time to delete 'em yet.

.

**osisi:

I asked my daughter to delete all her songs from her Ipod.
thankfully she was already thinking about that.

is that so?

Rihanna is such a dumb head. I used t admire her but now i detest her more than a plague. Can't she get a better guy. The chris Brown self is not fine not to talk of cute. He is fair for ?

spikedcylinder:

Before this whole brouhaha, what was there to admire in Rihanna?

no such thing as bad publicity in showbiz. . .

Oprah should shut the fu-ck up. If all we've heard about chris and rihanna is true then it just proves that most women will stay with a man she thinks she loves no matter what he does

hmmmm

totally unacceptable and uncivilized behaviour
Doesn’t deserve a second chance

Oprah so right once more

As much as I don't like Oprah, I have to admit, she is right.

i guess chris brown is tired of rihanna and just nids space, all he had 2do was break up wit her not beat her black and blue.

oprah is just looking for TV ratings nothing more, i guess dats why she couldn't pass up such a topic as rihanna's situation

Better put **osisi