Russel Brand Accused Of Rape, Sexual & Emotional Abuse

[ZariusTwo]

A joint investigation by UK media outlets the Sunday Times, the Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches said Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse during a seven-year period.

The reports emerged after the 48-year-old actor had already issued a video Friday night to deny what he called “very serious criminal allegations.”

He insisted his relationships had always been consensual.

“The relationships that I had were absolutely always consensual,” Brand said. “I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent. And I’m being transparent about it now.”

He claimed that this openness was being “metastasized into something criminal” and suggested that it was a “serious and concerted agenda” to silence him.

Brand has in recent years reinvented himself as a counter-culture guru, who questions mainstream media reporting and endorses conspiracy theories.

“It’s been clear to me, or at least it feels to me, like there’s a serious and concerted agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices,” he continued.

“I don’t mind them using my books and my stand-up to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.”

Brand claimed that he was aware of witnesses whose evidence “directly contradicts the narrative that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct.”

According to the reports, Brand entered into a relationship with a 16-year-old schoolgirl. In another instance, he was accused by a woman of raping her in his Los Angeles home,

A third woman said Brand sexually assaulted her while she worked with him in Los Angeles

The reports said several others had accused Brand of physical and emotional abuse, sexual harassment and bullying.

Most of the women wanted to remain anonymous. A documentary will be released today on Channel Four’s Dispatches series.

https://deadline.com/2023/09/russell...8590/#comments

[Coola Yagami]

who is this now? never heard of him.

[Mayhem]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

who is this now? never heard of him.

Really? Used to be married to Katy Perry, been in a few Hollywood films as well (Forgetting Sarah Marshall springs to mind).

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

who is this now? never heard of him.

He's a bit of an eccentric, conspiracy-centered, guru-style sort of "star" who has a fairly successful YouTube podcast. Most recently you might have seem him Kenneth Branagh's "Death On The Nile".

[Andrew NDB]

It's just very telling that he was being lauded for years and years as a great guy, even though he was doing this stuff in front of everyone... then as soon as he stops being a good little leftist while having a huge audience, suddenly -- and only then -- the goon squad start doing their digging.

[ZariusTwo]

Yeah, he should have been put away during the Yewtree investigations of Saville a decade ago but they just let him carry on 'till he started speaking out against the system.

There's actually a fascinating clip of him trying to hike down a mountain and the instructor the whole time is telling him to "believe in the system" and it was triggering him a bit.

[ProphetofGanja]

Deep State shenanigans, smh

[ZariusTwo]

Found guilty

https://deadline.com/2026/11/russell...lt-1237212032/

[frank_one]

Is he going to jail or what?

[IMJ]

I'd be really curious to see what real, non "he said she said" evidence there was that nabbed the guilty verdicts on the charges that stuck.

[Andrew NDB]

So he was guilty of this:

Complainant 3 alleged that Brand “lunged and squeezed” her breasts within minutes of their first meeting in 2004 while attending the birthday party of a TV producer at London’s Nordic Bar. Brand denied sexually assaulting Complainant 3, who worked at MTV at the time.

Might have happened. And wow, 2004? A great big "big whoop," in any case.

Complainant 5 alleged that she was anally raped by Brand at his London home in 2009 days after meeting him backstage at his stand-up show, where she gave him consensual oral sex. Complainant 5 said they had consensual vaginal sex at his home,efore alleging that Brand turned her on all fours and unexpectedly penetrated her anally, removing his condom. Brand said the anal intercourse was consensual.

So basically him and some chick were getting drunk in 2009 and had consensual oral and regular sex, but then suddenly started doing anal and suddenly 20 years later she's like, "Oh yeah, totally raped me there"?

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So he was guilty of this:

Complainant 3 alleged that Brand “lunged and squeezed” her breasts within minutes of their first meeting in 2004 while attending the birthday party of a TV producer at London’s Nordic Bar. Brand denied sexually assaulting Complainant 3, who worked at MTV at the time.

Might have happened. And wow, 2004? A great big "big whoop," in any case.

Complainant 5 alleged that she was anally raped by Brand at his London home in 2009 days after meeting him backstage at his stand-up show, where she gave him consensual oral sex. Complainant 5 said they had consensual vaginal sex at his home,efore alleging that Brand turned her on all fours and unexpectedly penetrated her anally, removing his condom. Brand said the anal intercourse was consensual.

So basically him and some chick were getting drunk in 2009 and had consensual oral and regular sex, but then suddenly started doing anal and suddenly 20 years later she's like, "Oh yeah, totally raped me there"?

Right and then you have my point just above that still stands - what is the actual evidence that led to the conviction?

[Mad Dog McMutt]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Right and then you have my point just above that still stands - what is the actual evidence that led to the conviction?

The white sheets that have been turned brown.

[frank_one]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Complainant 5 alleged that she was anally raped by Brand at his London home in 2009 days after meeting him backstage at his stand-up show, where she gave him consensual oral sex. Complainant 5 said they had consensual vaginal sex at his home,efore alleging that Brand turned her on all fours and unexpectedly penetrated her anally, removing his condom. Brand said the anal intercourse was consensual.

Is this considered "rape" now? Fine, good to know.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by frank_one

Is this considered "rape" now? Fine, good to know.

Any expression of discomfort, even post-decision discomfort can now be weaponized by a $#!9bag and subject to public review and condemnation of the accused.

You can't ever rid a society of $#!9bags - I think they are part of nature's prescribed "diversity". But, we could go after those who empower them and allow them to live out their $#!(bag gaslighting and poised-vengeance. We could do that.

Like - I'd love to put every writer's head on a pike who make claims about "outrage over xyz" given that they are trying to signal that some large group somewhere is actually outraged so as to stir outrage. We can start removing those people from the boardgame.

[CyberCubed]

Criminals will pay for their crimes.

[ToTheNines]

No more buggering!

[Andrew NDB]

Going back to the brief "boob grab" from 2004... I thought we weren't supposed to regard boobs as sexual organs? If a dude grabs my pec tomorrow in passing can I get him in trouble for "rape" in like 2050? Seems absurd on its face.

[Stu_Padasso]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Going back to the brief "boob grab" from 2004... I thought we weren't supposed to regard boobs as sexual organs? If a dude grabs my pec tomorrow in passing can I get him in trouble for "rape" in like 2050? Seems absurd on its face.

As kids, we hade something called the “Purple Nurple.” Some guys will pay someone else to do that to them.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

But to be serious, as someone who was a victim of hazing as well as being one of several family members (along with half the guys we went to school with) accused of abuse by a close relative who is now cooling off in a jail cell for violating a protection order, I don’t know where I stand.

[ZariusTwo]

An injunction prevented one accuser in the 2010s from coming forward sooner

https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/11/07/...et-injunction/