Brand charged with rape, intersexual battle
Actor and comedian Russell Brand pleaded not blameworthy successful a London tribunal to rape and intersexual battle charges involving 4 women dating backmost much than 25 years.
Brand, who turns 50 adjacent week, denied 2 counts of rape, 2 counts of intersexual battle and 1 number of indecent assault. He said "not guilty" aft each complaint was work successful Southwark Crown Court.
Prosecutors said the offenses took spot betwixt 1999 and 2005 - 1 successful the English seaside municipality of Bournemouth and the different 3 successful London.
Brand did not talk to reporters arsenic helium arrived astatine tribunal wearing acheronian sunglasses, a suit jacket, a achromatic collared garment unfastened beneath his thorax and achromatic jeans.
Russell Brand arrives astatine Southwark Crown Court successful London connected May 30, 2025.
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He is accused of raping a pistillate astatine a edifice country successful Bournemouth erstwhile she attended a 1999 Labour Party league and met him astatine an lawsuit wherever helium was performing.
A 2nd pistillate said Brand grabbed her forearm and attempted to resistance her into a men's toilet astatine a tv presumption successful London successful 2001.
The 3rd accuser was a tv worker who met Brand astatine a 2004 day enactment wherever helium allegedly grabbed her breasts earlier pulling her into a toilet and forcing her to execute oral sex.
The last accuser worked astatine a vigor presumption and met Brand portion helium was moving connected a spin-off of the "Big Brother" world tv programme betwixt 2004 and 2005.
British instrumentality protects the individuality of victims of alleged intersexual violence.
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