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Woman tells UK court that comedian Russell Brand raped her
The complainant said Brand grabbed her breasts at a birthday party before dragging her into a toilet and forcing oral sex, while he denies seven charges.
On Monday, the jury at Southwark Crown Court watched a 2023 video police interview with the third complainant, while Russell Brand arrived for the second week of his trial accompanied by his wife, Laura Gallacher.
Brand faces seven charges including three counts of rape, three of sexual assault, and one of indecent assault involving six women across a 10-year period between 1999 and 2009.
At a 2004 party at London's Nordic Bar in Soho, the woman alleged Brand grabbed her breasts before dragging her into a toilet, telling police, "I just closed my eyes and tried not to be there."
Brand has pleaded not guilty to all charges, claiming his encounters with women were consensual; the trial is expected to last six weeks.
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