Russell Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by six additional women, according to an investigative report by The Times and The Sunday Times.
The allegations include instances where Brand engaged in sex with individuals without their explicit consent, continued intimate contact after being told to stop due to pain or discomfort, and made statements denying the nature of consensual acts.
Alleged Incidents Detailing Lack of Consent
A woman who had a professional relationship with Brand in the late 2000s described how she noticed he was not wearing a condom during intimacy. She said: ‘I knew he didn’t have a condom on and I said: ‘No, stop,’ and I started to try and move. And … that wasn’t happening.’ Afterward, she reported that Brand apologised both in person and via text message. The woman stated she justified this by thinking: ‘at least he admitted it’.
In another incident from 2007, when the woman was aged 19, she told Brand during sex: ‘It’s painful’. According to the report, he did not respond or cease activity despite her repeated requests to stop. Later, he claimed: ‘Tonight was consensual. Nobody did anything they didn’t want to do.’
Additional Allegations of Coercion and Humiliation
A fan who met Brand in San Francisco in 2013 said he 'manhandled' her and forced his hand down her trousers. She stated: ‘I didn’t resist. I just sort of let it happen.’
In a separate incident at a music festival in 2005, Brand approached a woman then in her mid-twenties and told her: ‘Please I just need to have sex with you, I will pay you’.
Another woman, after winning a BBC Radio 6 Music competition in 2006 and being invited onto Brand’s show, claimed that following sporadic contact over the next year, he asked her to lick a toilet seat at his home. When she refused, she said he became angry and appeared 'pissed off' that she would not let him humiliate her.
A staff member of a London venue where Brand regularly visited reported seeing Brand say to another employee: ‘Russell wants you’ and ‘He’s in the disabled toilets’. The woman described entering with lights off; when she went to hand him toilet paper, Brand grabbed her unexpectedly.
Criminal Conviction and Legal Context
Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison on Monday after being convicted at Southwark Crown Court in London for raping a 21-year-old fan and sexually assaulting three women between 2004 and 2009. He was cleared of two further charges of rape and one charge of attempted indecent assault.
The investigation into these new allegations could not be published until the criminal case concluded to avoid prejudicing judicial proceedings. The Times reported that ‘extensive steps’ were taken to verify claims, with no sources paid or incentivised.
Response from Brand’s Representative
Brand's lawyer was contacted by the media outlets for comment following his conviction but did not issue a public response despite being given additional time and an agreed deadline. In prior statements, Brand has denied wrongdoing and maintained all relationships were consensual.
In related developments, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the media industry must 'look at itself' and 'step forward' to protect women and girls after both Brand’s rape conviction and allegations against comedian David Walliams — which Walliams denies — came under scrutiny in recent reports.