*Rihanna has finally come clean, sort of, about her relationship with fellow pop superstar Chris Brown.

      After months of describing their situation as nothing more than a "friendship," despite various paparazzi photos of the two suggesting something deeper, the Barbados-born singer tells Elle magazine: "We've always been friends, but we're very close now."

       She gets testy with the Elle reporter when asked about old rumors that she and her mentor Jay-Z had an affair.         

       "I get asked about it all the time and I'm like, 'You're asking, but you know the answer,'" she says of the rap mogul, who married Beyonce in April. "I don't even like to address it anymore."