LONDON– Star and comic Russell Brand name has actually come to a London court to deal with rape and sexual offense fees on Friday early morning.
The fees connect to 4 different ladies and the supposed criminal offenses extend from 1999 to 2005, authorities claimed.
Brand name has actually been billed with one matter of rape, one matter of dental rape, 2 matters of sexual offense and one matter of indecent attack.
Brand name, understood for his stand-up funny acts and his movie duty in “Neglecting Sarah Marshall,” rejected all accusations.
The 49-year-old star and comic showed up face to face at Westminster Magistrates court in main London and relocated via a huge group of press reporters, digital photographers and some followers, claiming absolutely nothing as he made his method right into the court house to encounter his fees.
” The ladies that have actually made records remain to get assistance from specifically educated policemans,” Metropolitan Cops Investigator Superintendent Andy Furphy claimed in a declaration when the fees were introduced on April 4. “The Met’s examination stays open and investigatives ask any person that has actually been impacted by this instance, or any person that has any type of info, to find onward and consult with authorities. A devoted group of detectives is readily available using e-mail at CIT@met.police.uk.”
Brand name reacted to the fees on social media sites last month claiming, “I have actually constantly informed you individuals that when I was young and solitary, prior to I had my other half and family members … I was a fool, male, I was a fool prior to I resided in the light of the Lord. I was a drug abuser, a sex addict and an imbecile. However what I never ever was, was a rapist. I have actually never ever participated in nonconsensual task. I hope that you can see that by searching in my eyes.”
He after that thanked his fans, including the he is “unbelievably thankful” to protect the fees in court.
Metropolitan Cops claimed last month that the fees originate from an examination that started in September 2023.
That month, Britain’s Network 4 program Dispatches broadcast a docudrama episode, the outcome of a joint examination with The Times and The Sunday Times, called “Russell Brand name: In Level View.” The docudrama included 4 unrevealed ladies, that asserted they had actually been raped or sexually attacked by Brand name in between 2006 and 2013.
British star and comic Russell Brand name, that has actually been billed with rape and numerous matters of sex attack shows up at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, in London, Britain, Might 2, 2025.
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Complying with the airing of that episode, Metropolitan Cops introduced they had actually opened up an examination after they state they “got a variety of accusations of sex-related offenses.” Cops did not call Brand name at the time yet referenced a tv docudrama and information examinations, according to the Associated Press.
In October 2023, in a different instance, the Thames Valley Cops in South East England informed ABC Information they were additionally exploring accusations of harassment and tracking versus Brand name, “going back to 2018.”
Brand name has actually rejected all accusations.
Brand name asserted in a September 2023 YouTube video clip, published before the docudrama’s launch, that he had actually obtained a set of “exceptionally troubling letters” from what he referred to as a “traditional media” electrical outlet and information magazine that described “really significant accusations that I definitely shoot down.”
At the time, Brand name asserted the accusations “refer to the moment when I was operating in the mainstream” and “in the papers regularly, when I remained in the motion pictures.”
” As I have actually discussed thoroughly in my publications, I was really, really promiscuous,” he claimed because video clip. “Currently, throughout that time of indiscrimination, the connections I had were definitely, constantly consensual. I was constantly clear regarding that after that, practically as well clear, and I am being clear regarding it currently also.”
Brand name recommended that the accusations became part of a “worked with media assault” meant to challenge him.
Along with acting and funny, Brand name has actually functioned as a political analyst and health influencer.
He was formerly wed to vocalist Katy Perry from 2010 till their separation in 2012. Brand name wedded Laura Gallacher in 2017. The pair have 3 youngsters.
