Russell Brand responds to sexual assault charges
Digest more
Top News
Overview
The New York Times |
British prosecutors said that they had charged the comedian and actor with offenses between 1999 and 2005, involving four women.
HuffPost |
British police on Friday charged Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault following an 18-month investigation sparked when four women alleged they had been assaulted by the controversial comedian.
Read more on News Digest
London's Metropolitan Police have charged comedian and actor Russell Brand with one count of rape, oral rape and indecent assault and two other counts of sexual assault, the police force said Friday.
Russell Brand, comic turned commentator, is charged with multiple counts of rape and assault stemming from incidents alleged to have happened from 1999 to 2005.
Far right political commentator Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape, and sexual assault in his native U.K. According to the Metropolitan Police, who announced the charges Friday,
Allegations against the actor and comedian came from four women, London’s Metropolitan Police said.
Comedian Russell Brand was charged Friday with rape and sexual assault. The charges came after an investigation by British police into complaints made by multiple women.
Brand has long denied sexual assault accusations, saying he was promiscuous in the past but relationships were “always consensual.”
The incidents took place between 1999 and 2005.Actor and comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault, and sexual assault for incidents that took place between the years of 1999 and 2005.
Brand, who was once one of Britain's most high-profile broadcasters and is the former husband of U.S. pop singer Katy
Feedback