The TV producer says she called police to remove the entertainer from her home in 2014, as Brand begins a sentence of ten and a half years for rape and sexual assault.
Within hours of Russell Brand being sent to prison, his former partner Jemima Goldsmith publicly accused him of abusing her during their relationship, saying she once had to summon police to get him out of her home.
The 52-year-old film and television producer made the claims in a long post on X on Monday evening, the same day a judge jailed Brand for ten and a half years. She wrote, "I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified and ensured justice was done. I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse."
The sentencing
Brand, 51, was convicted after a four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court of offences against four women between 2004 and 2009. The jury found him guilty of raping a woman at his home in 2009 and of sexually assaulting three other women. He was cleared of two further counts of rape and one of attempted indecent assault.
In passing sentence, the judge said Brand had shown a dismissive, arrogant indifference to women’s right to refuse him, and that his…
