{"id":646033,"date":"2026-10-14T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646033\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:02:09","slug":"russell-brand-prosecutors-allege-brand-was-ruthless-as-rape-trial-begins-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646033\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand: Prosecutors allege Brand was &#8216;ruthless&#8217; as rape trial begins &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brand was &#8216;partially undressed&#8217; when complainant emerged from lavatory, prosecution sayspublished at 10:46 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:46 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\">Claire Ellison<br \/>Reporting from Southwark Crown Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prosecution continues describing the first woman&#8217;s alleged interaction with Brand in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She went to the bathroom to use the lavatory, inviting him to make himself a cup of tea while she was out of the room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When she emerged from the lavatory, the defendant was partially undressed &#8211; he had removed his top, his chest was naked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She asked him why he had taken his clothes off, and he said something along the lines of: &#8216;It&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s just how I am, don\u2019t worry\u2026 I\u2019m mostly naked at home.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brand was &#8216;partially undressed&#8217; when complainant emerged from lavatory, prosecution sayspublished at 10:46 BST 10:46 BST Claire EllisonReporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-646033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}