In a report, the Sunday Times revealed that the actor and comedian had sex with a woman without her consent and subsequently apologised to her in person and by text message. It also reported that he continued having sex with another woman despite her asking him to stop.

The latter woman, who was 19 when she met Brand in 2007, said that following the incident, the actor told her: “Tonight was consensual. Nobody did anything they didn’t want to do.”

Brand was also accused of misconduct by a fan he met after a performance at The Chapel, a live music venue in San Francisco, US, in 2013. The woman said he had assaulted her.

Another woman reported that Brand approached her at a music festival in 2005 and said: “Please, I just need to have sex with you, I’ll pay you”, according to information published about the actor’s behaviour.

Brand was also accused of misconduct by a woman who won a music competition and was invited to appear on his show in 2006. After meeting occasionally over the following year, she alleged that the actor asked her to lick a toilet seat at his home and became angry when she refused.

Another woman, who worked at a London venue frequented by the comedian in 2015, reported that a member of his team told her: “Russell loves you” and that he “is in the accessible toilet”.

The woman said that when she entered, the lights were off and Brand claimed he needed toilet paper, but grabbed her when she reached out to hand it to him.

Brand, 51, began serving his sentence at Wandsworth Prison in London, after being found guilty by a London court of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others during his career.

When passing sentence, Judge Joel Bannathan, of Southwark Crown Court in south London, described the comedian as a “sexual predator”, while highlighting the “determination and courage” of the victims, who had to deal with the trauma caused by Brand’s crimes.


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