<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actor Russell Brand pleaded “not guilty” to charges of rape and sexual assault on Friday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 49-year-old appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London for a very short pre-trial hearing. Brand pleaded not guilty to the five charges filed against him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russell-brand-charged-rape-sexual-assault">reported</a>, the <a href="https://news.met.police.uk/news/russell-brand-charged-by-the-metropolitan-police-service-495944">accusations</a> stem from four alleged incidents; one in 1999 in which a woman said she was raped in the Bournemouth area, one in 2001 in which a woman claimed she was indecently assaulted in the Westminster area of London, one in 2004 when a woman said she was orally raped and sexually assaulted in the Westminster area of London, and one between 2004 and 2005, in which a woman claimed she was sexually assaulted in the Westminster area of London.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brand will remain on conditional bail until his trial begins in June 2026, per </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/arts/russell-brand-pleads-not-guilty-rape.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The actor will have to keep the court advised of any address changes going forward until the trial begins. The celebrity</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is being represented by lawyer Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky, who also defended actor Kevin Spacey against sex assault allegations in 2023.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brand released a lengthy video in response after the charges were made public, admitting he used to be a sex addict but claiming that all sexual behavior in his past was consensual.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’ve always told you guys that when I was young and single before I had my wife and family… I was a fool,” he said in a video shared on social media on April 4</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Man, I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord. I was a drug addict, sex addict, and an imbecile. What I never was was a rapist.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">My response. <a href="https://t.co/wJMGxlwBh0">pic.twitter.com/wJMGxlwBh0</a></p>
<p>— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) <a href="https://twitter.com/rustyrockets/status/1908184087304548484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’ve never engaged in non-consensual activity,” Brand stated at the time. “I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He thanked fans again and said he was “grateful” for the opportunity to “defend these charges in court.”</span></p>

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