Six more women accuse Russell Brand of sexual misconduct, report says

Russell Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by six more women, according to an investigation by the Times and the Sunday Times.

The report alleges that the comedian is accused of having sex with a woman without her consent and then apologising afterwards, as well as continuing to have sex with another woman after she asked him to stop because he was hurting her.

A fan, then in her late 20s, also accuses Brand of misconduct. She allegedly met him after he performed at The Chapel venue in San Francisco in 2013, and claimed he “manhandled” her and forced his hand down her trousers.

Another woman said Brand approached her in 2005 at a music festival and told her: “Please I just need to have sex with you, I will pay you.” She was in her mid-twenties.

The Times investigation also says that Brand is also accused of misconduct by a woman, then in her late 20s, who won a BBC 6 Music competition and was invited as a guest on his show in 2006. She alleges that, after seeing him sporadically for a year, he told her to lick a toilet seat at his house and “got angry” when she refused.

“[He] seemed pissed off that I wouldn’t let him humiliate me,” she added.

The last allegation concerns a woman who worked at a London venue in 2015. She says that a member of Brand’s staff told her there: “Russell wants you” and said: “He’s in the disabled toilets”. The lights were off when she went in, and Brand claimed he wanted toilet paper, but grabbed her when she went to hand it to him, she alleges.

Brand, 51, was sentenced to over 10 years in prison on Monday after being convicted on one account of rape and three accounts of sexual assault.

He was charged anally raping a woman at his London home in 2009, grabbing a woman’s breasts at a London bar in 2004, grabbing a woman’s face and kissing her before groping her breasts and behind at the Choice FM studios in London in either 2004 or 2005, and laying his head on a woman’s groin area without her consent while working with her on a Channel 4 project in 2009.

Originally accused of seven offences, Brand was cleared of two additional rape charges and one attempted indecent assault charge last Thursday.

These new allegations could only be reported after his criminal cases ended, to avoid prejudicing the proceedings.

Brand’s lawyer was approached by the Times for comment following his conviction. He reportedly said would consider “injunctive relief” but did not send any response to the allegations.