Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison on Monday, after a London jury convicted the British comedian of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.
“The total sentence is one of ten years, six months,” Mr. Justice Joel Bennathan said as he handed down the sentence at Southwark Crown Court in London. Brand, 51, received nine years for the rape and consecutive sentences of nine months, 18 months and eight months for the three sexual assaults. The judge said Brand must serve two-thirds of the sentence in custody before being released on license.
A jury found Brand guilty last Thursday, November 5, after a trial lasting about four weeks and three days of deliberations. He was convicted on four of the seven counts against him and acquitted of two further rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault. Six women had accused him, with charges spanning 1999 to 2009.
The offenses the jury convicted on took place between 2004 and 2009: Brand groped an MTV worker at a party in a Soho bar in 2004, sexually assaulted a radio worker at the Capital Radio studios in 2005, assaulted another woman at a TV studio, and raped a 21-year-old fan who had met him at his 2009 stand-up show at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Sentencing him, the judge called Brand a “sexual predator,” citing his “staggering arrogance” and “disregard of any woman’s right to say no,” and said the consequences for his victims had been “profound and lasting.” Brand was denied bail after the verdict and spent the weekend in custody at HMP Wandsworth before Monday’s sentencing.
Brand was charged in April 2025 with three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault, following a police investigation into allegations first aired in 2023. He had denied the charges. Outside court on Monday, his father, Ron Brand, told reporters his son was a “victim.”
The Metropolitan Police say Brand remains under investigation over two further allegations. Once a stand-up star, MTV host and Hollywood actor in films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Brand had reinvented himself in recent years as a political commentator and Christian convert with a large online following.
Reporting via the Associated Press, BBC and Reuters.
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