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If you somehow managed to avoid it the first time around, your chances of seeing more pics of Rihanna’s bloodied and battered face just got a whole lot better — it seems the new guy she’s dating has a history of domestic assault. Star Magazine reveals

[There are] charges of abuse by the ex-girlfriend of the singer’s new man, Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp.

In June 2008, actress Felisha Terrell filed a restraining order against the 6’4″, 220-lb. ballplayer — whom she had been living with — accusing him of threatening, intimidating and stalking her. In the papers, [she] states: “He is violent and I am afraid.”

Rihanna’s friends are afraid, too.

“You’d think after what she went through with Chris, RiRi would be extra careful about learning the background of any man she gets close to,” one of them tells Star. “It’s almost as if she has a dark side of her own — an attraction to bad boys.”

A “dark side” of her own? What is she, a fucking sith lord? Please. She’s a goddamn idiot, that’s what she is. And anyway, everybody knows there can only be two sith — a master, and an apprentice — according to the Rule of Two set forth by Darth Bane after he discovered the holocron of Darth Revan and disbanded the Brotherhood of Darkness, and Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi secured those spots a long time ago. Next time check your facts, dummies!

Performing in Rockefeller Center with Jay-Z last month:

PHOTO SOURCE: Pacific Coast News Online, Bauer-Griffin Online