Rihanna fought back tears while being honored as one of Glamour’s 2009 Women of the Year at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Monday (Nov. 9). The magazine’s latest cover girl broke from her all-black-everything look, turning heads in a dramatic white gown. She was accompanied by her Island Def Jam label head L.A. Reid. Other honorees included Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Maria Shriver, and Amy Poehler.

“I am shaking right now. I am so nervous, but overwhelmed and honored by this honor to be Glamour’s Woman of the Year,” an emotional Rihanna said as she was presented with her award from supermodel Iman. “I really look up to my gran-gran and my mom. They are my two women of the year. I love you very much, granny. I love you very much, mom.”

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MTV’s Alexa Chung scoops Rihanna for her first non-Chris Brown interview. RiRi, wearing a red-and-black striped hooded dress, discussed her “20/20” interview, Rihanna Day in Barbados, working with Ne-Yo, and her favorite downtime activity. Plus, she takes a fashionable catwalk down memory lane.

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Rihanna surprised concertgoers at Jay-Z’s show at UCLA’s Pauley Pavillion on Sunday night by performing “Run This Town” with Jay and “Hard” from her new album Rated R. If you were there and have better footage, please send it to us. [Props to @themainB]

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who sent in the “Hard” performance! Watch that below.

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Although she missed last year’s Grammy Awards due to her now infamous altercation with Chris Brown, Rihanna will be on hand to assist in celebrating the 2010 Grammy nominees.

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Rihanna goes topless, shielding herself with only a strategically placed arm on the cover art for “Wait Your Turn.” Check out that deadly “R” logo bracelet on her right arm. If looks could kill…

We’ve heard Chris Brown’s side of the story. Now Rihanna breaks her silence to ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in her first interview since being assaulted by her former boyfriend in February. Watch the revealing interview in full below.

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In the second part of Diane Sawyer’s sit-down with Rihanna on “Good Morning America,” she describes what occurred the night Chris Brown assaulted her, confirming that their fight erupted over a text message he received from a girl.

“I caught him in a lie, and he wouldn’t tell the truth,” she said. “I couldn’t take that he kept lying to me. And he couldn’t take that I wouldn’t drop it because obviously his back was up against the wall.”

Her former boyfriend continued to attack her until she was battered and bloody. “That’s all I kept thinking the whole time. When is it going to stop? He had no soul in his eyes, just blank,” she continued. “He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him.”

The full interview airs tonight at 10 p.m. on ABC’s “20/20.”

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ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer sat down with Rihanna for her first one-on-one interview since being assaulted by Chris Brown in February. An emotional RiRi spoke out in the segment, which was televised on Thursday’s “Good Morning America.” Another portion of the sit-down will air on Friday’s “GMA” with the full interview on “20/20” at 10 p.m.

“That’s embarrassing that that’s the type of person that I fell in love with,” she told Sawyer about her former boyfriend. “I’m a human being and people put me on a very unrealistic pedestal and all these expectations. I’m not perfect.”

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