Russell Brand, the irreverent British comedian-turned-conservative influencer, faces two additional sex crime charges in the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police announced<\/a> on Tuesday that prosecutors charged the 50-year-old \u201cGet Him to the Greek\u201d and \u201cRock of Ages\u201d star with another count of rape and another count of sexual assault. The charges stem from an investigation into allegations raised by two additional women, police said. A representative for Brand did not immediately respond to The Times\u2019 request for comment on Tuesday. <\/p>\n Brand was charged in April <\/a>with two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault in connection to four separate alleged incidents involving different women from 1999 to 2005. Prosecutors at the time accused Brand of raping a woman in the English seaside area of Bournemouth in 1999. He also allegedly indecently assaulted a second woman in 2001, orally raped and sexually assaulted a third woman in 2004 and sexually assaulted the fourth woman between 2004 to 2005. Those allegations occurred in Westminster, according to U.K. officials.<\/p>\n He pleaded not guilty<\/a> to those charges in May, doubling down on his initial denials on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sexual assault and rape allegations against Brand notably became public in September 2023<\/a>, when the Times of London published its joint investigation with \u201cDispatches,\u201d a news program on Britain\u2019s Channel 4. Numerous women alleged at the time that they were sexually assaulted by Brand between 2006 and 2013. Months later, a woman sued<\/a> Brand for sexual assault on the set of his 2011 film \u201cArthur,\u201d and the BBC revealed it had fielded numerous complaints<\/a> about Brand\u2019s workplace conduct during his radio hosting tenure from 2006 to 2008. <\/p>\n