More women make allegations against Russell Brand

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More women have come forward to make allegations about disgraced entertainer Russell Brand, in interviews with the Times and a new Netflix documentary.

Brand was jailed earlier this week after being found guilty of one count of rape and three of sexual assault at a trial in London.

Allegations against him first emerged after an investigation by the Times, the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches in 2023.

The Times has now reported accusations of what it called sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by a further six women, which the newspaper said could not be reported until the criminal case had ended. He has denied non-consensual sexual activity.

The Times report was published on Thursday evening, and a Netflix documentary, titled Russell Brand: Open Secret, was made available on Friday morning.

The programme included an interview with a woman referred to as Emily, not her real name, who said she was in a relationship with Brand when she was in her twenties.

On one occasion, she said she "literally begged" Brand to stop after he refused to wear a condom during sex.

Emily, who was portrayed by an actress in the documentary, said: "I said to him, 'No, Russell, please, let's just use protection.' I kept saying 'No'. I said, 'Stop Russell, stop, please don't, please.'

"I begged him. I literally begged him. I tried to kick him off, I tried to draw my knees back, to kick him in his belly, but he was too strong for me."

But he "just pinned my hands back behind my head" before forcing himself upon her, she alleged.

"When it happens you just feel like, is this... is this rape? Because I'm with this guy [in a relationship]," she said, according to the documentary.

"I know I said 'No', but you question yourself and you think, did I do something wrong?"

She "left his as quickly as I could" and told one friend what had happened, but "back then women felt shamed", she said.

"You didn't talk about it. I just felt completely violated and unseen and unheard. I was saying 'No'. I kept saying, 'No, stop, please, stop, stop, no'."

Another ex-girlfriend, Jordan Martin, claimed in the documentary that Brand sexually assaulted her and smashed her phone in a hotel after she had spoken to an ex to arrange to collect her belongings.

"He snatched my phone out of my hand and broke it apart into pieces," she said.

Brand then followed her into a different room, she said. "He didn't say anything. He put his hand down the front of my jeans and he inserted a finger and then he walked away."

She added: "I look at myself back then and I feel sorry for myself. And not in a bad or pitying way, I just feel like it wasn't very fair."

Martin also said Brand was jealous and controlling, and had made her "brush her teeth until gums bled".

"He wanted me to taste anonymous," Martin said. "And so he was asking me to brush my teeth, but it just was never enough. And so he's standing over me and I'm brushing and I'm brushing, and then I'm seeing my teeth bleeding."

The Times and Sunday Times reported that at least five sexual partners said Brand had forced them to brush their teeth, including the fifth complainant in the trial, whom he was convicted of raping in 2009.

Among the new claims reported by the paper is one from a woman referred to as Alex, who claimed she had asked Brand to stop having sex after noticing he wasn't using a condom.

"I said, 'No, stop', and I started to sort of try and move. And... that wasn't happening," she said.

When he continued, she decided "I'm not going to fight", she said, because "who knows what he could do?"

Alex said Brand apologised in person and by text message after the alleged incident.

"I justified it in my head by saying to myself, at least he admitted it," she told the Times.

A woman called Vicky also claimed she had asked him to stop twice after they started having sex.

"My body wasn't ready for this and it was painful", she remembered.

"An uneasy wave hits me and I'm scared. And I say, 'It's painful' and he doesn't stop. And then it gets worse and it's really painful. And I say 'Stop' and he doesn't stop."

She added that it had felt like he "just wasn't present".

She claimed he said afterwards: "Tonight was consensual. Nobody did anything they didn't want to do."

Another woman named Zoe said Brand was "annoyed" after she turned up to his hotel late.

"He basically sort of just grabbed me and manhandled me around a little bit and he put his hand on my throat," she told the Times.

"And then he shoved his other hand down my trousers and penetrated me with his finger.

"I didn't resist. I just sort of let it happen."

On Monday, Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison following his trial. He is expected to serve seven years.

He denied the charges and was acquitted on two further rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault.

Police have said Brand is being investigated over rape allegations made by two more women.

The Metropolitan Police have said they are also "assessing" information from several people who contacted them during the trial "to provide information or report a potential criminal allegation".

Brand has been placed inside HMP Wandsworth. BBC News has asked his legal representatives for a response to the latest allegations.

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