Russell Brand Is Charged With Rape and Sexual Assault in U.K.
Posted on: Apr 04, 2025 18:53 IST | Posted by: Nytimes
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british people prosecutors said that they had supercharged the comic and doer with offenses between 1999 and 2005, involving four women.
Reporting from London
Prosecutors in Britain have charged Russell Brand, the comedian and actor, with multiple sexual assault charges, including two counts of rape.
The country’s Crown Prosecution Service announced the charges on Friday.
Jaswant Narwal, a prosecutor, said in the statement that Mr. Brand would appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London for a first hearing on May 2.
Ms. Narwal added that the charges “relate to reported nonrecent offenses between 1999 and 2005, involving four women.”
The British police began investigating Mr. Brand’s past behavior in Sep. 2023, after three news organizations published a joint investigation.
Representatives for Mr. Brand did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but he has repeatedly denied ever having committed sexual assault.
In September 2023, Mr. Brand released a video on social media in which he said the British media was subjecting him to “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.” Mr. Brand said that he had once been sexually promiscuous but that his sexual encounters were “always consensual.”
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Alex Marshall is a Times reporter covering European culture. He is based in London. More about Alex Marshall
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