# Court hears Brand invited fans aged 16 and over to approach him

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/russell-brand-told-fans-his-age-range-to-have-sex-was-16-to-death-as-he-issued-open-invite-before-handpicking-women-court-hears/
- Published: 2026-10-23T00:45:15+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:02:29+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16230767/Russell-Brand-age-range-sex-16-death-court.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Court heard Brand invited fans aged “16 to death” to approach him.
- A 21-year-old woman alleges he raped her at his home.
- Brand faces seven charges relating to six women.

## Summary

Russell Brand told fans at a 2009 performance that he would have sex with people aged “16 to death” and invited them to approach him, a court heard. Prosecutors say he then selected two young women from a queue for sex in his dressing room; days later, he allegedly raped one of them at his London home.

The woman, then 21, says she repeatedly told Brand to stop during anal sex and suffered internal injuries. Friends and colleagues described her distress afterwards, and her parents took her to a sexual health clinic, the court heard. Brand faces three rape charges, three sexual assault charges and one count of indecent assault relating to six women between 1999 and 2009; these are allegations heard in court.

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