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"  In the controversy surrounding Chris Brown and Rihanna&amp;#039;s much-publicized reunion, one woman is often forgotten: Karrueche Tran, the model who Brown dated for two years and eventually dumped after his 2009 assault and subsequent breakup with Ri-Ri. He continued dating her even as he was reconciling with the Barbadian superstar over the last year. (Remember that drunken video Chris Brown took last October of himself &amp;quot;ruminating&amp;quot; on whether you can love two people? Yeah, that was about Rihanna and Karrueche.) Art imitates life imitates art imitates life imitates art and... you can go on forever, and now I&amp;#039;m dead, AHHH! But seriously, we all know that celebrities incorporate their &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; lives into their very public careers. My spirit animal Taylor Swift, for example, has been known for turning the boyfriend-lemons of her life into Top 40-ballad lemonade. And why not? Haters gonna hate, but I am Team T-Swizzle all the way. That said, where do you draw the line between artistic catharsis and milking it? In the vein of Justin Timberlake&amp;#039;s Britney Spears-doppelganger in the music video for &amp;quot;Cry Me A River&amp;quot; after she allegedly cheated on him with their shared choreographer, Chris Brown has &amp;quot;purposely cast a Karrueche Tran look-alike&amp;quot; in a music video for his new song &amp;quot;Fine China.&amp;quot; (Of course, Brown, Timberlake and Swift are three verrrry different cases. But still.) Life and Style has quoted &amp;quot;a pal of [Brown&amp;#039;s]&amp;quot; on the strategic casting in the video. Says the source: &amp;quot;The storyline [of the music video] includes him saying goodbye to the woman. He wants to show he&amp;#039;s chosen Rihanna over her once and for all. [...] It was only right for him to make a statement that they are back together and that he and Karrueche are over.&amp;quot; Tran and Brown remain &amp;quot;good friends&amp;quot; despite their split, but rumors that Brown&amp;#039;s new album will concern their breakup, in addition to this casting news, just struck Tran today. She tweeted:  today changed my life. \u2014 Karrueche Tran (@karrueche) March 28, 2013 Whether you&amp;#039;re a writer, a musician, a visual artist or any other creative type, what are the rules of using your exes in your art? Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslaw Photo via Corbis/SplashNews "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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