Russell Brand arrives at court to face rape and sexual assault charges

British comedian and histrion Russell Brand was expected to participate pleas to charges of rape and aggregate counts of enactment battle after arriving astatine a London tribunal Friday.

The 49-year-old showed up astatine the Southwark Crown Court successful a achromatic blazer with an unbuttoned striped garment and acheronian jeans.

The comedian, histrion and right-wing societal media influencer antecedently appeared astatine Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this period to perceive the details of the allegations against him.

Court documents detailing the charges said that Brand had indecently assaulted a pistillate successful 2001 by “grabbing her limb and dragging her towards a antheral toilet.” In a abstracted lawsuit successful 2004, helium was accused of sexually assaulting a pistillate successful Westminster by touching her breasts without her consent.

London constabulary archetypal charged Brand connected April 4 with rape, oral rape, indecent battle and 2 counts of intersexual battle successful cases related to 4 abstracted women betwixt 1999 and 2005.

The charges came aft detectives began investigating successful September 2023, aft The Sunday Times paper and British broadcaster Channel 4 archetypal reported the allegations wherever 4 women accused Brand of rape, intersexual battle and affectional abuse.

Brand has ever denied having nonconsensual enactment since the allegations archetypal aired 2 years ago.

One pistillate said she was 16 (the property of consent successful the U.K.) and Brand was 30 erstwhile they began a narration that included maltreatment and intersexual assault.

After helium was charged, Brand said successful a video connected X, “I person ne'er engaged successful non-consensual activity,” adding, “I americium present going to person the accidental to support these charges successful tribunal and I’m incredibly grateful for that.”

Born successful Essex, Brand roseate to fame successful British tv successful the aboriginal 2000s, including a stint arsenic a broadcaster connected the BBC, from which helium resigned successful 2008.

He went connected to prima successful galore Hollywood films, including “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” successful 2008 and “Get Him to the Greek” successful 2010, and joined popular prima Katy Perry successful 2010 earlier the mates divorced 14 months later.

He aboriginal joined Laura Gallacher successful 2017, with whom helium has 3 children. Last year, helium said helium had go a Christian.

Since fading from mainstream culture, Brand has go an outspoken professional of American authorities and escaped code successful videos helium posts to his YouTube channel.

In a abstracted video posted to X successful September 2023, helium said, “These allegations pertain to the clip erstwhile I was moving successful the mainstream ... And arsenic I’ve written astir extensively successful my books, I was very, precise promiscuous.”

“The relationships I had were precise absolutely, ever consensual,” helium added, earlier suggesting determination was an docket against him successful the mainstream media.