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\n Russell Brand arriving at Southwark Crown Court, London Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
RUSSELL BRAND TOLD police his \u201cvery promiscuous\u201d celebrity lifestyle of kissing fans and sleeping with countless women has now been \u201cunfavourable reframed\u201d into rape and sexual assault claims.<\/p>\n
Brand, now 51, was quizzed by police four times between November 2023 and July 2025, and each time insisted he has \u201cnever engaged in any non-consensual sexual activity\u201d.<\/p>\n
The former comedian, who is now on trial for raping and sexually assaulting a series of women, told detectives that sexual misconduct allegations first made in 2023 following an investigation by The Times, Sunday Times, and Channel 4 are \u201cfalse\u201d.<\/p>\n
In his statements to police, he detailed kissing hundreds of fans while out in public, having sex in toilets, and abruptly ending sexual encounters with women once they had finished.<\/p>\n
\u201cI led a very promiscuous life in the past, which I have spent years openly denouncing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn 16 September 2023, a defamatory and fictitious documentary was broadcast in conjunction with the publication of two national newspapers containing false anonymised allegations which led to unprecedented media reporting.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubsequently, both the media and the police publicly invited additional allegations to be made, which resulted in further encounters being invented or reimagined.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Russell Brand arriving at Southwark Crown Court, London Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n
In a police interview in December 2023, Brand said he did not recall the women who had come forward to accuse him, but he said: \u201cIt is entirely possible that I may have encountered them and that we may have engaged in consensual sexual activity or physical contact that has since been reimagined.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued that he engaged in \u201cfriendly, consensual and warm\u201d interactions with fans when there was \u201coften physical contact\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt live shows, press events, junkets, and book signings I did my best to be accessible, non-discriminatory and loving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent a lot of time at these events.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have shared kisses with hundreds of members of the public during press events and photos of many such kisses, in front of hundreds of people, are available online.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything I did in public once I was famous could be photographed or recorded and end up in the tabloids \u2013 I was aware of this.<\/p>\n
\u201cI routinely made provocative jokes or comments both with members of the public and during live performances and broadcasts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did on occasion find reasons for leaving, or for asking partners in casual sexual encounters to leave, shortly after the experience had concluded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had sexual encounters in countless locations and scenarios often with people I had just met.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way of life that I have described, the magnitude of the promiscuity, deceptively rendered in recent media attacks, accompanied by advertisements for complainants, have caused consensual encounters to be unfavourably reframed decades later.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing one allegation, that he had sexually assaulted and raped an MTV worker during a party at a Soho bar, Brand said it is \u201clikely\u201d he was at the event.<\/p>\n
But he added: \u201cAt no point would I have touched (her) breasts unless it was consensual.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have had consensual sex in toilet cubicles during parties.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never forced anyone into a toilet and I have never forced my penis into anyone\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I stated at the outset, I have never engaged in any non-consensual sexual activity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brand denies all the charges he faces.<\/p>\n
He is accused of three counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault, and on Tuesday an allegation of indecent assault was changed to a charge of attempted indecent assault.<\/p>\n
The trial has heard from six women who say they were the victims of sexual misconduct from Brand between 1999 and 2009.<\/p>\n
Prior to his rise to fame, Brand is accused of raping a woman he met at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth in 1999.<\/p>\n
She says he stripped off his clothes, \u201cpranced\u201d around her hotel room, and then pinned her to the bed and raped her.<\/p>\n
An MTV worker says Brand tried to drag her into a toilet at work when he was one of the channel\u2019s star presenters, but she said she managed to wrench herself away.<\/p>\n
Brand is accused of groping another MTV worker\u2019s breasts in a Soho bar, then forcing the woman into oral sex after dragging her to a toilet.<\/p>\n
He is accused of kissing and groping a radio worker in 2005 in front of members of his entourage, and sexually assaulting a Channel 4 staffer in 2009 by thrusting his head into her lap when she had been forced to give him a massage.<\/p>\n
Brand is accused of raping a 21-year-old fan in 2009 after meeting her at one of his Hammersmith Apollo stand-up performances.<\/p>\n
Brand has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and his barrister Ian Winter KC has told the court the former TV personality denies any non-consensual sex and argues some of the encounters with the women have been \u201creimagined\u201d since he was first accused of sexual misconduct in 2023.<\/p>\n
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