Actor and comedian Russell Brand is on trial at Southwark Crown Court facing multiple charges, including three counts of rape, three of sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault, involving six different women between 1999 and 2009. Brand, 51, denies all the allegations.

The trial has heard detailed testimony concerning an alleged incident in 2009 involving a woman in her early twenties, who was the fifth and youngest complainant. According to witness statements presented in court, Brand made a public remark during a stand-up performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, stating his "age range is from 16 to death," inviting audience members to approach him afterward. A friend of the complainant testified that following the show, Brand appeared to select the woman and another 19-year-old in the foyer, leading to a threesome backstage.

The complainant told police she performed oral sex on Brand during the backstage encounter. A few days later, she agreed to visit Brand’s home in Hampstead, north London, with the understanding they would have consensual sex. The prosecution alleges that while vaginal sex was consensual, Brand subsequently anally raped her. The woman described the act as aggressive and painful, saying she repeatedly said “no” but Brand continued, causing bleeding and injuries that required medical attention.

Friends, family members, and colleagues of the complainant have provided corroborating statements. One friend recounted the woman’s trauma and how Brand allegedly "hounded" her with messages after she initially refused sexual contact backstage. A former colleague reported the woman appeared distressed, noting Brand shouted at her about "the sheets" and forced her to clean up. The complainant’s mother and father described conversations where she detailed the assault, with her father explicitly telling her that what happened was rape.

Additional testimony described an encounter months later at the Edinburgh Festival where the complainant, visibly shaken, was alarmed by Brand’s presence and the messages he sent, which included requests to meet and pursue sexual contact.

The defense has challenged some accounts, citing statements from a former boyfriend of the complainant who suggested she had "come round" to the idea of the anal sex, though the boyfriend also acknowledged she "surrendered to the idea," a claim the prosecution disputes.

The trial also includes allegations from other women, with one 2001 case involving an attempt to forcibly take a woman into a toilet, from which she escaped unharmed but distressed. Brand has denied all allegations throughout proceedings.

The hearing continues as the court examines testimony from numerous witnesses and evaluates the evidence presented.