{"id":367192,"date":"2025-12-24T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367192\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:35:10","slug":"russell-brand-charged-with-new-rape-and-sexual-assault-crimes-in-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367192\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand Charged With New Rape and Sexual Assault Crimes in U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tProsecutors in Britan have charged Russell Brand<\/a> with additional counts of sexual assault, including one count of rape.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe criminal charges, announced by the Crown Prosecution Service on Tuesday, stem from separate police reports\u00a0 involving two women filed in 2009. In total, Brand faces criminal allegations of sex crimes against six women.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor and comedian is scheduled to appear in court in relation to the new charges \u2014 rape and sexual assault \u2014 in Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring these additional charges to court and that it is in the public interest to pursue further criminal proceedings,\u201d said Lionel Idan, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn March, Brand was charged with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape and two counts of sexual assault over sex crimes allegedly committed between 1999 and 2005. He pled not guilty.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe alleged crimes relate to a 1999 rape in the Bournemouth area of the U.K.; a 2001 indecent assault of a woman in Westminster, London; the 2004 oral rape and sexual assault of a woman also in Westminster; and the sexual assault of another woman in Westminster between 2004 and 2005.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a social media post when the charges were announced, Brand denied ever having committed rape or sexual assault. \u201cI\u2019ve never engaged in non-consensual activity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrand added, \u201cWe\u2019re very fortunate in a way to live in a time when there\u2019s so little trust in the British government. We\u2019re very fortunate, I suppose, that this is happening at a time where we know that the law has become a kind of weapon to be used against people, institutions and sometimes entire nations that will not accept levels of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLaw enforcement began investigating the alleged crimes in 2023 after receiving a number of allegations, which followed reporting by Channel 4\u2019s Dispatches and The Sunday Times. One of the women said that Brand entered a relationship with her when he was 31 and she was 16<\/p>\n

\n\tBrand no longer lives in the U.K. and resides in Florida. A trial is scheduled to start in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in Britan have charged Russell Brand with additional counts of sexual assault, including one count of rape.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,180376],"class_list":{"0":"post-367192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-russell-brand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}