Russell Brand faced sexual assault, rape and emotional abuse allegations by multiple women ahead of his 2026 trial. The U.K. newspaper The Times published a bombshell article about the actor and comedian in September 2023, in which four women alleged being sexually assaulted by Brand between the years of 2006 and 2013. Ahead of the article’s publication — a collaboration with the Channel 4 series Dispatches —Brand denied the “very serious allegations” against him in a video posted via X. “I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters, or a letter and an email, one from a m...