British comedian Russell Brand pleaded not guilty to numerous charges of rape and sexual assault this morning in court.
Brand is facing one charge of r*pe, one of oral r*pe, two counts of sexual assault and another of indecent assault.
One of Brand’s alleged victims says she was r*ped by a woman in a hotel room during a Labour Party political conference.
“I’ve always told you guys that when I was young and single before I had my wife and family … I was a fool, man,” he said last month. “I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord. I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an imbecile. But what I never was, was a r*pist. I’ve never engaged in nonconsensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes.”
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— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) April 4, 2025
The Metropolitan Police are confident in their decision to move forward with the charges.
“We carefully reviewed the evidence after a police investigation into allegations made following the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary in September 2023,” Jaswant Narwal of the Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement. “We have concluded that Russell Brand should be charged with offenses including rape, sexual assault, and indecent assault.”