Russell Brand has arrived at court to enter pleas over charges of multiple alleged sex attacks including a rape at the Labour Party conference.
The US-based comedian was mobbed by photographers as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court to face allegations from four women of rape, indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault between 1999 and 2005.
The presenter is accused of raping a woman in a hotel in 1999 after they met that day at a theatrical event following the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.
Brand is also alleged to have raped a woman working in television whom he met in a Soho bar in 2004.
He is accused of grabbing her breasts before pulling the victim into a toilet and forcing her to perform a sex act.
Another woman claims she was indecently assaulted by Brand, who grabbed her arm and attempted to drag her into a male lavatory at a television station in 2001.
Russell Brand, pictured arriving at Southwark Crown Court this morning, flanked by lawyer Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky (right)
The star wore an open black and white pinstripe shirt and a cross as he walked into the court ahead of his plea hearing
Brand was working for Channel 4 on Big Brother’s Big Mouth between 2004 and 2005 when he is said to have carried out the final assault on a radio station worker.
Brand has hired the solicitor Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky, who successfully defended Kevin Spacey against sex assault allegations in 2023.
The charges came following a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme in September 2023 in which several women accused him of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse, which he denied.
When he was charged, Brand addressed his 11.3million followers on X saying he was ‘never a rapist’.
The married father-of-three, was once one of the most popular comedy stars on Channel 4.
In recent years, has reinvented himself as an anti-woke political podcaster amassing millions of online followers on the alternative video platform Rumble.
He has also converted to Christianity, and was seen being baptised in the River Thames by TV presenter and adventurer Bear Grylls.
