Foxy Brown's used to making hits, not taking them.

The hot-tempered rapper—who's been in trouble for a couple of beauty-related smackdowns—was on the receiving end this weekend, getting mugged in her native Brooklyn.

According to authorities, Brown (whose real name is Inga Marchand) was outside the Louis H. Pink public housing project in her Range Rover, when four women attacked. Brown was dragged from her vehicle and then punched and kicked and had part of her weave ripped out. The women snatched a Louis Vuitton handbag, $500 in cash, credit cards, necklaces and even the hearing aid Brown has used since 2005, when she was diagnosed with sudden hearing loss.

However, in a curious twist, Brown now denies the incident ever happened.

The diminutive diva told the New York Post that she was nowhere near the complex where investigators allege she was ambushed. Instead, she chalked the whole thing up to a case of mistaken identity.

"I have friends all over Brooklyn, but I was not there last night," Brown told the paper on Saturday as she was leaving her Brooklyn brownstone in her SUV. "A lot of the time, people mistake me for someone else, or people always call in these false tips. I don't know why. I guess it's just being a celebrity."

Not so, say police, who on Sunday arrested 23-year-old Roshawn Anthony on several charges, including robbery, assault, grand larceny, petty larceny, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the Brown jacking.

"Brown was struck in the head with an unknown object," a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office told E! Online.

Unable to post the required $50,000 bail, Anthony remains behind bars at Riker's Island. Her next hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

As with many of her fellow rappers, Brown has maintained a code of silence and is refusing to cooperate in the police probe. But according to one report, Brown might have another reason not talk—she doesn't want to be embarrassed.

Per the New York Daily News, the Belize-born Anthony was a prostitute who worked for Brown's former beau. The newspaper quotes unnamed sources saying that Brown had dumped him shortly before she was attacked after finding out he was a pimp. The ex-boyfriend subsequently ordered Anthony and the other women to jump the "Chyna Doll" purveyor before she left the area.

Police have not publicly fingered the other alleged assailants or Brown's ex-boyfriend.

Anthony's mother, Laverne Reyes, meanwhile describes her daughter as a "wild" child. But Reyes also claimed Anthony was a victim herself and was trying to get away from the pimp, and was roughed up earlier this year because of it.

"He forced her to do things and beat her up if she didn't," Reyes told the Daily News. "[She was] selling herself, her body."

Anthony's public defender, Clinton Hughes, said his client is innocent of the charges and was being "squeezed by the police."

"[Foxy] is a colorful character. She's bringing out a colorful story," Hughes told the newspaper. "But something much more realistic will come out at the grand jury."

Brown's attorney, state Senator John Sampson, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

The 27-year-old performer is on probation after pleading guilty last August to misdemeanor assault charges resulting from a 2004 altercation with two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon. Aside from three years' probation, Brown was ordered to attend anger-management counseling and be subjected to random drug testing.

Brown managed to convince the judge not to lock her up following a February arrest at a Florida beauty shop. Brown allegedly threw hair glue and spat at an employee and then berated a police officer; she has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges of assault and nonviolently resisting an officer.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson noted that Brown failed to get permission to make the trip to Florida, another violation. Brown copped to the misdeeds in court, and at a progress hearing last week, Jackson restored Brown's probation.

The judge even praised the Brooklyn rapper for "turning the corner," by keeping her appointments with her probation officer, passing all her drug tests and staying out of trouble.