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Comedian Brand charged with rape and sexual assault

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April 05, 2025

Comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, the Metropolitan Police has announced.

- AMY-CLARE MARTIN

Comedian Brand charged with rape and sexual assault

The 49-year-old is facing allegations relating to four women over incidents between 1999 and 2005. The charges come after the police received a number of allegations, which followed a joint investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches and The Sunday Times in September 2023.

Mr Brand, who is understood to now live in the US, was charged by post and issued a court summons. He is accused of raping a woman in the Bournemouth area in 1999 and indecently assaulting a woman in the Westminster area of London in 2001.

He is further accused of orally raping and sexually assaulting a woman in Westminster in 2004. A fourth woman was allegedly sexually assaulted in Westminster between 2004 and 2005.

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