Sexy Rihanna has a leg up on the competition as she exits a taxi outside the Gramercy Park Hotel after being named Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year at a star-studded Carnegie Hall gala.

The singer, who suffered a high-profile beating at the hands of ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, was honored for her work on behalf of domestic-violence victims. She dedicated her award to her mom and grandmother, calling them “my two women of the year.”

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