Six more women accuse Russell Brand of sexual misconduct after his 10.5-year sentence

Conviction and prison term

Russell Brand, 51, was convicted by a London court of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three other women over the course of his career. The offences in the verdict took place between 2004 and 2009. Southwark Crown Court sentenced him to ten and a half years in prison on Monday, 9 November 2026, and he began serving the term that day at Wandsworth prison in south London. Passing sentence, Judge Joel Bannathan described the comedian as a sexual predator and praised the determination and courage of the victims, who had to live with the trauma of his crimes. The six new accounts were not raised during the trial.

Six new accounts

An investigation by The Times and The Sunday Times describes six women whose accounts cover roughly a decade. The reporting says the accounts were gathered before the trial ended but could not be published while the proceedings were open. One woman, who was 19 when she met Brand at a comedy performance in 2007, says he kept going after she told him it hurt and asked him to stop. Afterwards, she says, he told her the night had been consensual and that no one had done anything they did not want to do. Another woman says Brand had sex with her without a condom despite repeated requests to stop, and that he later apologised to her in person and by text message.

Other allegations

Several further accounts describe encounters at comedy and music events. A woman who was a fan says Brand met her after a performance at The Chapel in San Francisco in 2013 and groped her, putting his hand inside her trousers, according to The Times. Another woman says Brand approached her at a music festival in 2005, asked for sex and offered to pay her. A woman who won a BBC music competition in 2006 and was then invited onto his show says that during sporadic meetings the following year, he asked her to lick a toilet seat at his home and became angry when she refused. A woman who worked at a London venue frequented by Brand in 2015 says she entered a darkened disabled toilet after he said he needed toilet paper, and that he grabbed her as she held some out.

Legal position and what comes next

Brand's lawyer did not respond to the substance of the allegations, according to the reporting, but said he was considering seeking an interim injunction, a step similar to an urgent court order. The Times said the accounts could only be published after the trial to protect a fair legal process. The reporting also says a police investigation into the case continues. The BBC had earlier reported new allegations of sexual violence against Brand, a separate strand that the accounts described here do not cover.