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Russell Brand jailed for 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault

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Summary

  • Russell Brand has been jailed for 10 years and six months after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.
  • The conviction followed years of speculation around the British entertainer's conduct with young women.
  • An analysis published ahead of International Men's Day on November 19 discussed his case among recent scandals involving high-profile men.
  • The analysis argued such men respond to consequences by casting themselves as victims rather than showing shame.

Reactions

  • Ronald Brand, the entertainer's father, snapped outside court that the women who chased and harassed Russell were the victims, not his son.
  • The International Men's Day analysis said Brand's rebranding keeps the story about him rather than the women he groped, raped or abused.
  • The analysis said the conviction crystallised speculation around Brand and may have inspired his move to America, his Christianity and his baptism by Bear Grylls.
  • The analysis called Brand's conviction part of a daily parade of high-profile men whose past, present and future are organised around themselves.

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  1. Russell Brand was jailed for 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault.
  2. Asked outside court in the week of the sentencing whether he had anything to say to the women his son assaulted, Ronald Brand called them the ones who chased and harassed him.

Sources newest first

  • The parade of high-profile men doing wrong is getting exhaustingabc.net.au· 12h

    Annabel Crabb's ABC analysis argues that a parade of powerful men — Russell Brand's rape conviction, David Walliams' alleged grooming, Jensen Huang's resignation, Craig Silvey's child-exploitation convictions — is exhausting because they cast themselves as victims rather than show shame. She marks International Men's Day by urging men to move past main-character energy and care for those around them.

Background newest first

  • Arnaud Bertrand (@arnaudbertrand)substack.com· 4d

    On a Substack notes page, Arnaud Bertrand disputes the Alice Huang spy story, saying the Chinese government does not want Nvidia chips — citing Bloomberg and Reuters, he says it ordered Alibaba and ByteDance to cancel Nvidia orders in 2025 and that 600,000 H200 chips sit stuck in Hong Kong. He argues Megaspeed was a private-sector workaround renting Southeast Asian data centers to Alibaba, that no evidence Huang is a spy has been published, and that the MSS inquiry makes more sense as scrutiny of a policy workaround; commenters weigh in, and Susie Boniface writes on Russell Brand among other notes.