{"id":143787,"date":"2025-05-30T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/russell-brand-pleads-not-guilty-to-rape-indecent-assault-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:40:27","slug":"russell-brand-pleads-not-guilty-to-rape-indecent-assault-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/russell-brand-pleads-not-guilty-to-rape-indecent-assault-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand Pleads Not Guilty To Rape, Indecent Assault &#038; Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/russell-brand\/\" id=\"auto-tag_russell-brand\" data-tag=\"russell-brand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell Brand<\/a> has pled not responsible to fees of rape, indecent assault and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe TV presenter-turned MAGA outrider appeared in London\u2019s Southwark Crown Court earlier this morning and pled not responsible to all fees, in line with the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrand faces allegations together with that he raped a lady on the Labour Party convention in Bournemouth in 1999, dragged a TV employee into a bathroom and sexually assaulted a lady when he was a presenter on <em>Big Brother\u2019s Big Mouth.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/russell-brand-charged-rape-sexual-assault-1236359373\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged in April <\/a>by London\u2019s Metropolitan Police and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/russell-brand-seen-westminster-court-charges-rape-sexual-assault-1236383766\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was granted bail a month later.<\/a> Today was the second time he\u2019s been seen in a UK court docket since coming back from the U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1024px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((683\/1024)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg 4378w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=630,420 630w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=60,40 60w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=352,235 352w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=110,73 110w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=285,190 285w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217042290.jpg?resize=1280,853 1280w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\" lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max lrv-a-font-body-m u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-font-family-primary u-line-height-20 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-18@mobile-max\">Russell Brand. Image: HENRY NICHOLLS\/AFP by way of Getty <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUpon the costs being introduced, the one-time\u00a0<em>Forgetting Sarah Marshall\u00a0<\/em>star, whose resident handle is in Oxfordshire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=brand+responds+april+deadline+hollywood&amp;oq=brand+responds+april+deadline+hollywood&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRiPAjIHCAQQIRiPAtIBCDUwNDhqMGo3qAIAsAIA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned he was <\/a>a \u201cdrug addict, sex addict and an imbecile\u201d throughout his youth, however he was by no means a rapist. \u201cI\u2019ve never engaged in non-consensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes,\u201d he informed his social media followers final month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 2023 revelations about Brand led to a lot anger and leisure trade introspection. Since then, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>, Channel 4 and<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/06\/russell-brand-investigation-banijay-big-brothers-big-mouth-1235973378\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<em>Big Brother\u00a0<\/em>producer Banijay<\/a>\u00a0have all led inner probes, having labored with Brand on reveals up till late final decade. All these probes have led to apologies and additional revelations. The most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/russell-brand-bbc-apologizes-report-bathroom-incident-1236272741\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current report from the BBC\u00a0<\/a>discovered that employees on the UK broadcaster\u2019s L.A. bureau had \u201cjoked about\u201d an incident wherein the star was alleged to have uncovered himself to a lady in a toilet. Channel 4\u2019s report, printed nearly precisely a yr in the past,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/03\/channel-4-russell-brand-report-celebrity-bake-off-dispatches-1235864668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unearthed \u201ctwo new worrying allegations\u201d\u00a0<\/a>in opposition to Brand, who had labored on\u00a0<em>Celebrity Bake Off\u00a0<\/em>as just lately as 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Russell Brand has pled not responsible to fees of rape, indecent assault and sexual assault. The TV presenter-turned MAGA outrider appeared in London\u2019s Southwark Crown Court earlier this morning and pled not responsible to all fees, in line with the BBC. Brand faces allegations together with that he raped a lady on the Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1788,5510,3186,11297,3185,1530,1850,1831],"class_list":{"0":"post-143787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-brand","10":"tag-guilty","11":"tag-indecent","12":"tag-pleads","13":"tag-rape","14":"tag-russell","15":"tag-sexual"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}