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Who is Chris Brown’s ex Karrueche Tran – and where is she now? The half-Vietnamese actress, who had to get a restraining order against the hip-hop star, is mentioned on his latest diss track against Quavo

Karrueche Tran is back in the spotlight after she was referenced on ex Chris Brown’s latest diss track. Photo: @karrueche/Instagram
Karrueche Tran is back in the spotlight after she was referenced on ex Chris Brown’s latest diss track. Photo: @karrueche/Instagram

  • Tran appears to be in the middle of a feud between 2 rappers she previously had relationships with – Chris Brown and Quavo; both her and Rihanna were subject to violent threats by Brown
  • Tran has had a successful career as an actress since her split from the rapper in 2015, starring in The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, and TV shows The Bay and Claws

Karrueche Tran appears to be in the middle of a feud between two rappers she previously had relationships with.

According to TMZ, the deluxe version of Chris Brown’s recent album 11:11 contains a track dissing fellow rapper Quavo. Both Brown and Quavo have been romantically linked to Tran, with her split from Brown in 2015 ending so badly that she had to obtain a restraining order against him two years later.

In the song “Freak”, Brown’s raps: “F****** my old b***** ain’t gone make us equal/Sipping that 1942 cause I don’t do no Cuervo [Quavo]/Freak b**** she like Casamigos, not the Migos.”

Per the same TMZ article, Brown reignited the feud with the former Migos rapper earlier this year when he was seated next to Quavo at a Paris Fashion Week show.

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So who is Karrueche Tran, and what has she been up to since she famously split from Chris Brown?

Where is Karrueche Tran from?

Karrueche Tran has Vietnamese and Jamaican heritage. Photo: @karrueche/Instagram
Karrueche Tran has Vietnamese and Jamaican heritage. Photo: @karrueche/Instagram
According to her profile on IMDB, Karrueche Tran hails from Los Angeles, California. Per her interview with Ebony, her mother is Vietnamese and her father is African-American. “I was always somewhere in the middle. In elementary school, I identified more with my Asian side,” she told the publication. “I had a lot of Korean friends and then once middle school hit, it was a little more diverse. It was still a weird place to be, because around the Asians, I was brown-skinned. Around Black girls, I wasn’t Black enough, you know?”

Per Complex, she has a Jamaican godmother, and was “raised in a Jamaican household”.

What movies and TV shows is Karrueche Tran in?

Karrueche Tran at the Barbie premiere last July. Photo: @karrueche/Instagram
Karrueche Tran at the Barbie premiere last July. Photo: @karrueche/Instagram
Faye Bradley
Faye Bradley is a Hong Kong-based contributing online editor for Style by SCMP, where she covers topics in luxury, pop culture, celebrity, influencer, entertainment, travel, trending news, food and drinks, and lifestyle. As a freelance writer, her work has been featured in CNN Style, Business Insider, Michelin Guide, Travel + Leisure Asia, China Daily, Design Anthology, BurdaLuxury, Skyscanner, and Hong Kong Tourism Board. With a BA (Hons) in art and design from the University of Leeds, she is the co-founder of Paradigm Haus, a print publication that covers artists, creatives and entrepreneurs the world over, and the founder of CSP Times, a digital luxury lifestyle website. She is also an editor for luxury wellness travel publication Compare Retreats.