London – Actor and comedian Russell brand He declared himself innocent in a London court on Friday of rape and positions of sexual assault that involve four women who date for more than 25 years.
Brand, who turns 50 next week, denied two positions of rape, two positions of sexual assault and a position of indecent aggression. He said “not guilty” after each position was read in Southwark Crown Court.
His trial was scheduled for June 3, 2026 and is expected to last four to five weeks.
Prosecutors said the crimes took place between 1999 and 2005, one in the English coastal city of Bournemouth and the other three in London.
Brand did not talk to journalists when he reached the court with dark sunglasses, a suit jacket, a black -collar shirt open under his chest and black jeans.
Brand is accused of raping a woman in a hotel room in Bournemouth when she attended a conference of the 1999 Labor Party and brought him together with him in an event he acted. The woman claimed that this brand undressed while she was in the bathroom and when she returned to the room, pushed her to bed, she took her underwear and raped her.
A second woman said the brand grabbed her forearm and tried to drag her into a male bath at a television station in London in 2001.
The third accuser was a television employee who met the brand at a birthday party in a bar in 2004, where he allegedly grabbed his breasts before taking her to a bathroom and forcing her to perform oral sex.
The final accuser worked at a radio station and met with the brand while working in a spin-off of the “Big Brother” reality program between 2004 and 2005. He said that Brand grabbed her by the face with both hands, pushed her against a wall and kissed her before the breasts and the buttocks.
Associated Press does not name the victims of alleged sexual violence, and the British law protects their identity from life media.
