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Actor and comedian Russell Brand pleaded not guilty in a London court on Friday to rape and sexual assault charges involving four women dating back more than 25 years.
Brand, who turns 50 next week, denied two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault.
Russell Brand
English comedian and actor Russell Brand leaves Southwark Crown Court where he is charged with rape and sexual assault in London, Friday, May 30, 2025 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

His trial was scheduled for June 3, 2026 and is expected to last four to five weeks.

Prosecutors said that the offences took place between 1999 and 2005 — one in the English seaside town of Bournemouth and the other three in London.

Brand didn’t speak to reporters as he arrived at court wearing dark sunglasses, a suit jacket, a black collared shirt open below his chest and black jeans.

In his right hand, he clutched a copy of the The Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan prayers.

The Get Him To The Greek actor known for risqué stand-up routines, battles with drugs and alcohol, has dropped out of the mainstream media in recent years and built a large following online with videos mixing wellness and conspiracy theories, as well as discussing religion.

On a five-minute prayer video he posted on Monday on social media, Brand wrote: “Jesus, thank you for saving my life.”

Russell Brand
English comedian and actor Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he is charged with rape and sexual assault in London, Friday, May 30, 2025 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

When the charges were announced last month, he said that he welcomed the opportunity to prove his innocence.

“I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord,” he said in a social media video.

“I was a drug addict, a sex addict and an imbecile. But what I never was was a rapist. I’ve never engaged in nonconsensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes.”

Russell Brand
English comedian and actor Russell Brand leaves Southwark Crown Court where he is charged with rape and sexual assault in London, Friday, May 30, 2025 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Brand is accused of raping a woman at a hotel room in Bournemouth when she attended a 1999 Labour Party conference and met him at an event where he was performing.

The woman alleged that Brand stripped while she was in the bathroom and when she returned to the room he pushed her on the bed, removed her underwear and raped her.

A second woman said that Brand grabbed her forearm and attempted to drag her into a men’s toilet at a television station in London in 2001.

The third accuser was a television employee who met Brand at a birthday party in a bar in 2004, where he allegedly grabbed her breasts before pulling her into a toilet and forcing her to perform oral sex.

Russell Brand
English comedian and actor Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he is charged with rape and sexual assault in London, Friday, May 30, 2025 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The final accuser worked at a radio station and met Brand while he was working on a spin-off of the Big Brother reality television program between 2004 and 2005.

She said Brand grabbed her by the face with both hands, pushed her against a wall and kissed her before groping her breasts and buttocks.

The Associated Press doesn’t name victims of alleged sexual violence, and British law protects their identity from the media for life.

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