Nov. 13, 2026
6 MORE Women Accuse Russell Brand Of Sexual Misconduct
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RSS Feed Just days after actor, comedian and YouTuber Russell Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years behind bars, six new women have stepped forward accusing Brand of sexual misconduct. The very same UK publications that jumpstarted the criminal investigation into Brand’s behavior, are now detailing the stories of more women. ‘The Times’ and ‘The Sunday Times’ are reporting these women gave their accounts before Brand’s trial even began, but were held to ensure their accusations didn’t prejudice the court proceedings. Meantime, London police say they are investigating two more rape allegations against Brand as reports are circulating that the former actor may be transferred to one of the UK’s most notoriously violent prisons.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, November 13th, and he was just sentenced to ten and a half years in prison. But things are actually getting worse for Russell Brand. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We're up to, we might be up to close to 20 women who have come forward with accusations of some kind, and they keep it coming.
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Speaker 2: That's right, because there were, what, four initially that led to six coming forward that he was actually criminally prosecuted for, four of which he actually was convicted of.
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Speaker 3: Now there are six more women.
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Speaker 2: And when we say six more women have come forward, to put this into perspective, they actually came forward before Russell Brand went to trial. And they spoke to reporters from news outlets that held their reporting until after the sentencing so as not to influence or prejudice the trial outcome.
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Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And we say all that to say, um, these, everything you just said adds legitimacy to their claims.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: And these news outlets that held the reporting that have this reporting are the very same news outlets that began the investigation into Russell Brand back in 2023 that has ultimately ended with him behind bars. We're talking about the Times and the Sunday Times. And this is what they say, and I'm going to quote them directly. Reporters took extensive steps to corroborate these women's claims, including speaking with friends they had told, examining records of messages, going through photographs and archive material and more.
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Speaker 3: None of these women were paid.
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Speaker 1: The reporting sounds thorough.
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Speaker 3: It does.
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Speaker 1: The reporting led to convictions. I mean, those women came forward because, at least the ones having to do with the criminal case, came forward because of this reporting. And now, ropes, these numbers are getting up into something, obviously. And people are talking about how much of an open secret this was, his behavior. But you do not, for decades, go about having potentially... 20 victims and think that maybe that's it? Is that it?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: He was a menace to society based on this.
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Speaker 2: And the way that these women are describing this behavior, it's all, I hate to say, on brand for Russell Brand, but truly he followed a very specific set of just the way he operated.
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Speaker 3: His mode of operation is the same.
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Speaker 2: Like he, for whatever reason, loved a bathroom and he loved to to basically be a predator in the pool he was swimming in, whereas most of these women were described either as fans, people who came to his comedy shows, people who were a part of some of the productions.
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Speaker 1: Would you say overwhelmingly most of these women are women who trusted him, who actually were willing? To be intimate with him to some degree. And he took advantage of many of those situations.
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Speaker 3: I think that's a perfect way to put it.
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Speaker 2: And that, I believe, adds total legitimacy to their claims because these women are all admitting that they willingly, in many cases, not in all of them, but in many of them, had consensual sexual encounters. But what he did, he disrespected their boundaries, treated them like absolute, like just objects of, that were there to satisfy him, he made them feel humiliated, ashamed, and he did it in front of people, other people, members of his staff in some cases.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just terrible behavior.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting, Russell Brand, as we've been covering this, testified in his own defense at trial, and one of the ways he described his behavior, awful but lawful.
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Speaker 3: That's so disgusting.
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Speaker 1: Um, look, Robes, Agnefillo told us all, yes, Sean Combs' terrible boyfriend, he's into some weird stuff, but that doesn't make him a criminal. Robes' guy is admitting to some pretty awful behavior, and some stuff he's describing in the way, right, it's not a crime to mistreat a woman after you have sex. It's not, by mistreating, say, throw a rag and say, clean that up, and the car is waiting for you downstairs. That's not decent behavior. That's awful. Not a crime. That is the suggestion he's trying to make is that he was promiscuous. He was wild boy and doing all this stuff and it wasn't criminal. It is.
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Speaker 3: A jury disagreed. So did a judge.
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Speaker 1: And so do a lot of these women.
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Speaker 2: He was convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. And when it comes to these six new women who now are telling their stories, no response from Russell Brand's team. Initially, I believe the news outlets said that they kind of asked for more time, that they were considering it. And then when they gave them an extension of time before publishing the article, it was radio silence. The lawyers for Russell Brand just chose not to respond after asking for more time. And then they went ahead and published this article. So here are the new allegations. They gave all of these women, uh, False names, obviously.
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Speaker 3: But the first one was Alex.
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Speaker 2: And this is somebody who said she kind of had an on again, off again relationship with. But then she said he forced her into sex without her consent, where she said, no, he didn't use a condom. And then she said he apologized in person and then also in a text that these news outlets said they looked at where Russell Brand sent Alex. I justified it in my head by saying to myself, at least he admitted it.
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Speaker 3: That was his text to her.
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Speaker 2: He admitted that he raped her to her face, that he had sex with her when she said no.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that is rape.
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Speaker 1: Don't you talk about this all the time? Well, we seem like we were just talking about it yesterday, how women sometimes find a way to justify bad behavior. Like, what did I do wrong? Or how to justify what happened to them?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Did I make him feel like I could?
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Speaker 2: And by the way, all of these women told the Times that they were never going to come forward. They were going to take this to their graves. But when they saw other women coming forward, they saw other people being questioned. They felt like they needed to speak up and tell their stories. So Vicky told the papers that Brand continued to have sex with her after she told him to stop because it was hurting. Again, this is another woman, a young fan who did have some consensual encounters with him. She was 19 at the time and she said, my body wasn't ready for this and it was painful. An uneasy wave hit me and I was scared and I say, it's painful and he doesn't stop. And she said, again, in her account, she kept telling him to stop And he refused. And then later that night, she claims this is what Russell Brand said to her. Tonight was consensual. Nobody did anything they didn't want to do. And she felt like by him telling her that, he was acknowledging that he knew what he did was wrong. You don't need to say that to somebody if there isn't a question about consent.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what happens now then, Robes, if we have these? Because the first article they did Those women aren't the ones who ended up with the criminal case. So now you have six women. What now? What direction are they? Are police calling these women up? I mean, I don't know theâ no, some of these crimes were a decade plus ago. So I don't know what statute of limitations do we have. These were more recent.
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Speaker 2: I don't either, but some of them were even more recent because the initial charges were from a period of time between 2004 and 2009. These new allegations are between the time of 2005 and 2015. So Zoe says she met up with him after a comedy show. And again, a lot of these, all of these women said that they were excited initially. They, you know, wanted to get to know him. And she said they met up after the comedy show and she said, he basically, this is a quote from her. He basically sort of just grabbed me and manhandled me around a little bit. And then he put his hand on my throat. Then he shoved his other hand down my trousers and penetrated me with his finger. She said at the time, I just pushed it down. She said, I didn't think about it as sexual assault. But then you start hearing all these other accounts and you.
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Speaker 3: Think, holy hell, I didn't ask for that.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want that. No woman wants that experience. Georgia says that he was constantly pursuing her.
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Speaker 3: He wouldn't let up.
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Speaker 2: He saw her in his comedy show. She said, oh, at a music festival. And he was relentless. She said she kissed him one time, but she didn't really want to have sex with him. Eventually, she said, Brand tried to stick his penis down my throat so far that it nearly made me sick.
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Speaker 3: And a friend.
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Speaker 2: Corroborated that Georgia told her this immediately after it happened.
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Speaker 3: And how about this one?
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Speaker 2: Rosie said she started off having consensual sex in a bathroom with him. And then he told her, I want you to lick that toilet seat.
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Speaker 3: She refused.
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Speaker 2: And then she says, quote, he then got angry, was pissed off that I wouldn't let him humiliate me. He left the bathroom and it was as if he was repulsed by me. He seemed really angry. He told her, by the way, I'm not getting you a car.
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Speaker 3: Go find a taxi. and just like pushed her.
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Speaker 2: Out all right that's awful it's it's sexual misconduct i mean that's how they're kind of describing that that is that.
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Speaker 3: Assault no but it just shows that's a tough story.
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Speaker 2: What he was like Louise said that brand tried to pull her into a bathroom in 2015. And this is the most recent one. And this would have been when he was in a relationship with his current wife, Laura. She said, uh, uh, a staff member said, Russell wants you. So she was going to this, she said it was like a disabled bathroom. And she said he came up halfway up her arm.
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Speaker 3: She tried to get away. She stepped back.
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Speaker 2: And then she said a member of his staff was standing right behind her. And she said she felt trapped. And that he was trying to pull her into this bathroom. And she said she had an absolute feeling that he was going to sexually assault her. She managed to slip away, went into the room next to her, and she said she started sobbing because she felt like a piece of meat.
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Speaker 1: What do you do here, man? This is a lot of very similar stories.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: And this would be a... Hell of a conspiracy if you've got 20 women to get together and tell similar stories, to do all this lying about experiences they've had over decades. These are now, Robes, grown-ass women who've gone on with their lives, who don't need this, who have forgotten about this.
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Speaker 3: Wanted to forget it.
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Speaker 1: Moved on from this, and now they're seeing headlines, and they're seeing this stuff. And, Robes, I mean, this is horrible. You're innocent until proven guilty. Somebody thought he was guilty of something so far, and... The rest of it just paints an awful, awful picture of a guy who preyed on society almost. Like a menace. Nobody is safe. No woman is safe around this guy. At least as far as the stories are told, babe. It's disturbing because we've all been at some point. And yeah, full disclosure here. Out of curiosity, I put it on this morning. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That movie that you could argue, right? It made him a star, at least in the U.S.
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Speaker 3: We own that movie.
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Speaker 1: Big role.
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Speaker 2: Ropes.
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Speaker 1: He was a highlight of that film.
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Speaker 3: He was incredible.
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Speaker 1: Let's just say, but he played the exact same creepy, nasty, oversexed dude, vulgar dude that these women are describing.
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Speaker 3: 100%. It was like he isn't even acting at all.
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Speaker 1: It's not, and he is good in that movie.
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Speaker 3: Because he was playing himself, apparently.
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. It was natural. It was freaking hilarious. It was over the top.
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Speaker 2: But apparently that over the top to us was actually, according to these women, how he conducted himself in real life. When we come back, we're going to tell you about an open and active police investigation into Russell Brand and what may be next for him in his life behind bars. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. On the very week that Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars after a rape conviction and three sexual assault convictions, six more women are now telling their stories in the very same publications that began this entire investigation that led to Russell Brand's convictions. And their accounts are compelling, and they're damn... similar to one another. I mean, there was just a commonality, it appears, as to how Russell Brand operated for at least more than a decade, according.
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Speaker 3: To these women.
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Speaker 1: Modus operandi, Robes. He had an absolute MO. Like you said, bathrooms stood out a lot in this. And Robes, they were always, there's no, I say stranger, but everyone in here, he kind of pursued. He had some, you know what? He had right and reason and even was welcomed into a private, intimate situation with most. That was the woman you described pulling into a bathroom. That's a different situation. But most of them willingly were excited to be around him, to be with him, even willing to have sex with him. Those are the folks he attacked and preyed on. This wasn't some random attack and some random anything. It was almost a level of intimacy. Like, you trust me first. Now I got you.
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Speaker 2: Yes. He love bombed a lot of them. They described him grooming them, so to speak, where they felt special.
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Speaker 3: They felt beautiful. They felt sexy.
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Speaker 2: And then, I mean, some of these accounts, I would encourage everybody to read the full article and their accounts, but we're talking about how, yes, what started out as one thing would turn into something pretty horrific where there would be other women in another room listening that they had no idea, just all of this awful stuff that, and some of these women say, hey, I willingly went into a threesome with him, but then XYZ happened.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 2: These were women who were, I just feel like so believable because they were not trying to deny or act like they were these innocent flowers who Didn't want any sexual advances from Russell Brand.
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Speaker 3: No, they were fully.
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Speaker 2: Admitting that they were interested in some sort of relationship with him. But the way they were treated and the way that he operated was, yes, criminal in many of these instances. And police right now have said that they are investigating him. two specific rape accusations. They say they have other women who have reached out that they are currently.
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Speaker 3: Investigating as well.
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Speaker 2: They didn't give a number on that, but the police chief immediately said, hey, I'm not going to be surprised if a lot more women come forward. I mean, they have seen the scope of the women who are coming in and telling them similar stories.
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Speaker 1: The two that police are investigating, those aren't, excuse me, known public stories right now.
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Speaker 2: No, and that has not, we haven't gotten the details on that, but they did specify, Metropolitan Police specified that they are looking at two more rape charges potentially. And they made that distinction among, yes, a lot of other complaints they say they are receiving from women. Now, the London Times, again, the same newspaper that wrote about all of these women's accounts, is also reporting that according to sources, they are hearing that Russell Brand could be transferred to a notorious prison in the UK.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I haven't heard of HMP Wakefield. Does that ring a bell to you?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not that familiar with UK prisons.
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Speaker 3: That's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: US prisons either.
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Speaker 3: You know what? I like hearing that. I like hearing that from my husband.
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Speaker 1: Yes. No.
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Speaker 2: So HMP Wakefield apparently is a notorious prison in in West Yorkshire, and it's been the site of several high-profile killings carried out by other prisoners. Just, this is one of those prisons, I guess, was it, what was the prison, the Diddy that.
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Speaker 1: They- MDC, Metropolitan Detention.
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Speaker 2: Yes, like that obviously similarly has a notorious history of violence.
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Speaker 1: It's the only federal one we have up here. So they have to take everybody across the bridge, right, to Brooklyn.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Isn't Maduro's over there?
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Speaker 3: Maduro is there. Nicholas Maduro is over there. So, yes.
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Speaker 2: So it seems like it's comparable to that kind of a notorious prison where, yes, there are high rates of violence. And the paper pointed out that last year in October, do you know who the Lost Prophets are? apparently it's some British band. He's a singer, but he was also a convicted pedophile. He was murdered in that prison. Kyle Bevan, who was also a child killer, was murdered by three other inmates a month later. So if they don't like what you did, apparently, or who you did it to, they will.
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Speaker 3: Kill you in this prison.
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Speaker 2: So not sure how they're going to, if he does end up going to this prison, Russell Brand, how he will be received among the other prisoners.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that a weird honor? The way it works in prison. Like, we're all in here for the worst things, but you are a pedophile. Like, for us, that's even too much.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I mean, isn't that kind of a criminal code of conduct, in a sense? Like, other prisoners are justified in killing pedophiles. Like, that always seems to be the case, for whatever reason. Child killers, child molesters, you have an endangered life in prison, in most prisons, according to, yes, I guess, anecdotally what we hear. But apparently that's verifiable in this particular prison. How is Russell Brand going to be behind bars? He doesn't seem like somebody who's a hardened, like he's not used to a tough life. He's used to getting what he wants. I can't imagine what this is going to be like for him.
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Speaker 1: He's used to preying on people who are weaker than he is, who don't have as much power as he does. How does that translate in prison? He is not going to be the baddest dude on the block.
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Speaker 3: He might be the skinniest dude on the block.
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Speaker 1: What respect does he have for you? You're a You're a rapist of women? I don't know. I do not know, but 10 and a half years. What was it? He had to serve at least how much of it?
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Speaker 3: Two-thirds, I believe.
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Speaker 2: So I think we were doing rough math, and it looks like, I don't know if they get credit for good behavior or anything like that, but it looks like he is going to be behind bars for at least seven years. And there have been headlines that he asked for conjugal visits from his wife. That was denied. So can you imagine your You're behind bars for rape, but you're going to get conjugal visits from your wife. That's funny.
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Speaker 1: I would like to request that it's brought in for me. That thing that I was taking left and right, apparently. We're over the seven plus years or whatever he might do. That's seven years of him potentially going to trial for other... stuff.
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Speaker 3: That's absolutely true.
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Speaker 1: Roe, that could get tacked on to that.
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Speaker 3: Yes, there is most certainly more to come.
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Speaker 2: I don't think the police would come out and make it very clear that they have an active and open investigation with women coming forward and if they didn't believe that more charges might be possible.
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Speaker 3: So we will keep our eye on this situation.
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Speaker 2: We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone.
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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, November 13th, and he was just sentenced to ten and a half years in prison. But things are actually getting worse for Russell Brand. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We're up to, we might be up to close to 20 women who have come forward with accusations of some kind, and they keep it coming.
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Speaker 2: That's right, because there were, what, four initially that led to six coming forward that he was actually criminally prosecuted for, four of which he actually was convicted of.
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Speaker 3: Now there are six more women.
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Speaker 2: And when we say six more women have come forward, to put this into perspective, they actually came forward before Russell Brand went to trial. And they spoke to reporters from news outlets that held their reporting until after the sentencing so as not to influence or prejudice the trial outcome.
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Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And we say all that to say, um, these, everything you just said adds legitimacy to their claims.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: And these news outlets that held the reporting that have this reporting are the very same news outlets that began the investigation into Russell Brand back in 2023 that has ultimately ended with him behind bars. We're talking about the Times and the Sunday Times. And this is what they say, and I'm going to quote them directly. Reporters took extensive steps to corroborate these women's claims, including speaking with friends they had told, examining records of messages, going through photographs and archive material and more.
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Speaker 3: None of these women were paid.
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Speaker 1: The reporting sounds thorough.
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Speaker 3: It does.
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Speaker 1: The reporting led to convictions. I mean, those women came forward because, at least the ones having to do with the criminal case, came forward because of this reporting. And now, ropes, these numbers are getting up into something, obviously. And people are talking about how much of an open secret this was, his behavior. But you do not, for decades, go about having potentially... 20 victims and think that maybe that's it? Is that it?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: He was a menace to society based on this.
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Speaker 2: And the way that these women are describing this behavior, it's all, I hate to say, on brand for Russell Brand, but truly he followed a very specific set of just the way he operated.
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Speaker 3: His mode of operation is the same.
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Speaker 2: Like he, for whatever reason, loved a bathroom and he loved to to basically be a predator in the pool he was swimming in, whereas most of these women were described either as fans, people who came to his comedy shows, people who were a part of some of the productions.
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Speaker 1: Would you say overwhelmingly most of these women are women who trusted him, who actually were willing? To be intimate with him to some degree. And he took advantage of many of those situations.
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Speaker 3: I think that's a perfect way to put it.
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Speaker 2: And that, I believe, adds total legitimacy to their claims because these women are all admitting that they willingly, in many cases, not in all of them, but in many of them, had consensual sexual encounters. But what he did, he disrespected their boundaries, treated them like absolute, like just objects of, that were there to satisfy him, he made them feel humiliated, ashamed, and he did it in front of people, other people, members of his staff in some cases.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just terrible behavior.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting, Russell Brand, as we've been covering this, testified in his own defense at trial, and one of the ways he described his behavior, awful but lawful.
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Speaker 3: That's so disgusting.
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Speaker 1: Um, look, Robes, Agnefillo told us all, yes, Sean Combs' terrible boyfriend, he's into some weird stuff, but that doesn't make him a criminal. Robes' guy is admitting to some pretty awful behavior, and some stuff he's describing in the way, right, it's not a crime to mistreat a woman after you have sex. It's not, by mistreating, say, throw a rag and say, clean that up, and the car is waiting for you downstairs. That's not decent behavior. That's awful. Not a crime. That is the suggestion he's trying to make is that he was promiscuous. He was wild boy and doing all this stuff and it wasn't criminal. It is.
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Speaker 3: A jury disagreed. So did a judge.
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Speaker 1: And so do a lot of these women.
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Speaker 2: He was convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. And when it comes to these six new women who now are telling their stories, no response from Russell Brand's team. Initially, I believe the news outlets said that they kind of asked for more time, that they were considering it. And then when they gave them an extension of time before publishing the article, it was radio silence. The lawyers for Russell Brand just chose not to respond after asking for more time. And then they went ahead and published this article. So here are the new allegations. They gave all of these women, uh, False names, obviously.
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Speaker 3: But the first one was Alex.
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Speaker 2: And this is somebody who said she kind of had an on again, off again relationship with. But then she said he forced her into sex without her consent, where she said, no, he didn't use a condom. And then she said he apologized in person and then also in a text that these news outlets said they looked at where Russell Brand sent Alex. I justified it in my head by saying to myself, at least he admitted it.
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Speaker 3: That was his text to her.
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Speaker 2: He admitted that he raped her to her face, that he had sex with her when she said no.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that is rape.
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Speaker 1: Don't you talk about this all the time? Well, we seem like we were just talking about it yesterday, how women sometimes find a way to justify bad behavior. Like, what did I do wrong? Or how to justify what happened to them?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Did I make him feel like I could?
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Speaker 2: And by the way, all of these women told the Times that they were never going to come forward. They were going to take this to their graves. But when they saw other women coming forward, they saw other people being questioned. They felt like they needed to speak up and tell their stories. So Vicky told the papers that Brand continued to have sex with her after she told him to stop because it was hurting. Again, this is another woman, a young fan who did have some consensual encounters with him. She was 19 at the time and she said, my body wasn't ready for this and it was painful. An uneasy wave hit me and I was scared and I say, it's painful and he doesn't stop. And she said, again, in her account, she kept telling him to stop And he refused. And then later that night, she claims this is what Russell Brand said to her. Tonight was consensual. Nobody did anything they didn't want to do. And she felt like by him telling her that, he was acknowledging that he knew what he did was wrong. You don't need to say that to somebody if there isn't a question about consent.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what happens now then, Robes, if we have these? Because the first article they did Those women aren't the ones who ended up with the criminal case. So now you have six women. What now? What direction are they? Are police calling these women up? I mean, I don't know theâ no, some of these crimes were a decade plus ago. So I don't know what statute of limitations do we have. These were more recent.
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Speaker 2: I don't either, but some of them were even more recent because the initial charges were from a period of time between 2004 and 2009. These new allegations are between the time of 2005 and 2015. So Zoe says she met up with him after a comedy show. And again, a lot of these, all of these women said that they were excited initially. They, you know, wanted to get to know him. And she said they met up after the comedy show and she said, he basically, this is a quote from her. He basically sort of just grabbed me and manhandled me around a little bit. And then he put his hand on my throat. Then he shoved his other hand down my trousers and penetrated me with his finger. She said at the time, I just pushed it down. She said, I didn't think about it as sexual assault. But then you start hearing all these other accounts and you.
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Speaker 3: Think, holy hell, I didn't ask for that.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want that. No woman wants that experience. Georgia says that he was constantly pursuing her.
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Speaker 3: He wouldn't let up.
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Speaker 2: He saw her in his comedy show. She said, oh, at a music festival. And he was relentless. She said she kissed him one time, but she didn't really want to have sex with him. Eventually, she said, Brand tried to stick his penis down my throat so far that it nearly made me sick.
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Speaker 3: And a friend.
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Speaker 2: Corroborated that Georgia told her this immediately after it happened.
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Speaker 3: And how about this one?
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Speaker 2: Rosie said she started off having consensual sex in a bathroom with him. And then he told her, I want you to lick that toilet seat.
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Speaker 3: She refused.
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Speaker 2: And then she says, quote, he then got angry, was pissed off that I wouldn't let him humiliate me. He left the bathroom and it was as if he was repulsed by me. He seemed really angry. He told her, by the way, I'm not getting you a car.
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Speaker 3: Go find a taxi. and just like pushed her.
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Speaker 2: Out all right that's awful it's it's sexual misconduct i mean that's how they're kind of describing that that is that.
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Speaker 3: Assault no but it just shows that's a tough story.
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Speaker 2: What he was like Louise said that brand tried to pull her into a bathroom in 2015. And this is the most recent one. And this would have been when he was in a relationship with his current wife, Laura. She said, uh, uh, a staff member said, Russell wants you. So she was going to this, she said it was like a disabled bathroom. And she said he came up halfway up her arm.
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Speaker 3: She tried to get away. She stepped back.
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Speaker 2: And then she said a member of his staff was standing right behind her. And she said she felt trapped. And that he was trying to pull her into this bathroom. And she said she had an absolute feeling that he was going to sexually assault her. She managed to slip away, went into the room next to her, and she said she started sobbing because she felt like a piece of meat.
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Speaker 1: What do you do here, man? This is a lot of very similar stories.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: And this would be a... Hell of a conspiracy if you've got 20 women to get together and tell similar stories, to do all this lying about experiences they've had over decades. These are now, Robes, grown-ass women who've gone on with their lives, who don't need this, who have forgotten about this.
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Speaker 3: Wanted to forget it.
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Speaker 1: Moved on from this, and now they're seeing headlines, and they're seeing this stuff. And, Robes, I mean, this is horrible. You're innocent until proven guilty. Somebody thought he was guilty of something so far, and... The rest of it just paints an awful, awful picture of a guy who preyed on society almost. Like a menace. Nobody is safe. No woman is safe around this guy. At least as far as the stories are told, babe. It's disturbing because we've all been at some point. And yeah, full disclosure here. Out of curiosity, I put it on this morning. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That movie that you could argue, right? It made him a star, at least in the U.S.
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Speaker 3: We own that movie.
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Speaker 1: Big role.
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Speaker 2: Ropes.
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Speaker 1: He was a highlight of that film.
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Speaker 3: He was incredible.
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Speaker 1: Let's just say, but he played the exact same creepy, nasty, oversexed dude, vulgar dude that these women are describing.
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Speaker 3: 100%. It was like he isn't even acting at all.
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Speaker 1: It's not, and he is good in that movie.
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Speaker 3: Because he was playing himself, apparently.
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. It was natural. It was freaking hilarious. It was over the top.
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Speaker 2: But apparently that over the top to us was actually, according to these women, how he conducted himself in real life. When we come back, we're going to tell you about an open and active police investigation into Russell Brand and what may be next for him in his life behind bars. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. On the very week that Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars after a rape conviction and three sexual assault convictions, six more women are now telling their stories in the very same publications that began this entire investigation that led to Russell Brand's convictions. And their accounts are compelling, and they're damn... similar to one another. I mean, there was just a commonality, it appears, as to how Russell Brand operated for at least more than a decade, according.
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Speaker 3: To these women.
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Speaker 1: Modus operandi, Robes. He had an absolute MO. Like you said, bathrooms stood out a lot in this. And Robes, they were always, there's no, I say stranger, but everyone in here, he kind of pursued. He had some, you know what? He had right and reason and even was welcomed into a private, intimate situation with most. That was the woman you described pulling into a bathroom. That's a different situation. But most of them willingly were excited to be around him, to be with him, even willing to have sex with him. Those are the folks he attacked and preyed on. This wasn't some random attack and some random anything. It was almost a level of intimacy. Like, you trust me first. Now I got you.
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Speaker 2: Yes. He love bombed a lot of them. They described him grooming them, so to speak, where they felt special.
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Speaker 3: They felt beautiful. They felt sexy.
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Speaker 2: And then, I mean, some of these accounts, I would encourage everybody to read the full article and their accounts, but we're talking about how, yes, what started out as one thing would turn into something pretty horrific where there would be other women in another room listening that they had no idea, just all of this awful stuff that, and some of these women say, hey, I willingly went into a threesome with him, but then XYZ happened.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 2: These were women who were, I just feel like so believable because they were not trying to deny or act like they were these innocent flowers who Didn't want any sexual advances from Russell Brand.
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Speaker 3: No, they were fully.
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Speaker 2: Admitting that they were interested in some sort of relationship with him. But the way they were treated and the way that he operated was, yes, criminal in many of these instances. And police right now have said that they are investigating him. two specific rape accusations. They say they have other women who have reached out that they are currently.
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Speaker 3: Investigating as well.
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Speaker 2: They didn't give a number on that, but the police chief immediately said, hey, I'm not going to be surprised if a lot more women come forward. I mean, they have seen the scope of the women who are coming in and telling them similar stories.
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Speaker 1: The two that police are investigating, those aren't, excuse me, known public stories right now.
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Speaker 2: No, and that has not, we haven't gotten the details on that, but they did specify, Metropolitan Police specified that they are looking at two more rape charges potentially. And they made that distinction among, yes, a lot of other complaints they say they are receiving from women. Now, the London Times, again, the same newspaper that wrote about all of these women's accounts, is also reporting that according to sources, they are hearing that Russell Brand could be transferred to a notorious prison in the UK.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I haven't heard of HMP Wakefield. Does that ring a bell to you?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not that familiar with UK prisons.
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Speaker 3: That's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: US prisons either.
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Speaker 3: You know what? I like hearing that. I like hearing that from my husband.
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Speaker 1: Yes. No.
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Speaker 2: So HMP Wakefield apparently is a notorious prison in in West Yorkshire, and it's been the site of several high-profile killings carried out by other prisoners. Just, this is one of those prisons, I guess, was it, what was the prison, the Diddy that.
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Speaker 1: They- MDC, Metropolitan Detention.
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Speaker 2: Yes, like that obviously similarly has a notorious history of violence.
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Speaker 1: It's the only federal one we have up here. So they have to take everybody across the bridge, right, to Brooklyn.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Isn't Maduro's over there?
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Speaker 3: Maduro is there. Nicholas Maduro is over there. So, yes.
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Speaker 2: So it seems like it's comparable to that kind of a notorious prison where, yes, there are high rates of violence. And the paper pointed out that last year in October, do you know who the Lost Prophets are? apparently it's some British band. He's a singer, but he was also a convicted pedophile. He was murdered in that prison. Kyle Bevan, who was also a child killer, was murdered by three other inmates a month later. So if they don't like what you did, apparently, or who you did it to, they will.
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Speaker 3: Kill you in this prison.
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Speaker 2: So not sure how they're going to, if he does end up going to this prison, Russell Brand, how he will be received among the other prisoners.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that a weird honor? The way it works in prison. Like, we're all in here for the worst things, but you are a pedophile. Like, for us, that's even too much.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I mean, isn't that kind of a criminal code of conduct, in a sense? Like, other prisoners are justified in killing pedophiles. Like, that always seems to be the case, for whatever reason. Child killers, child molesters, you have an endangered life in prison, in most prisons, according to, yes, I guess, anecdotally what we hear. But apparently that's verifiable in this particular prison. How is Russell Brand going to be behind bars? He doesn't seem like somebody who's a hardened, like he's not used to a tough life. He's used to getting what he wants. I can't imagine what this is going to be like for him.
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Speaker 1: He's used to preying on people who are weaker than he is, who don't have as much power as he does. How does that translate in prison? He is not going to be the baddest dude on the block.
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Speaker 3: He might be the skinniest dude on the block.
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Speaker 1: What respect does he have for you? You're a You're a rapist of women? I don't know. I do not know, but 10 and a half years. What was it? He had to serve at least how much of it?
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Speaker 3: Two-thirds, I believe.
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Speaker 2: So I think we were doing rough math, and it looks like, I don't know if they get credit for good behavior or anything like that, but it looks like he is going to be behind bars for at least seven years. And there have been headlines that he asked for conjugal visits from his wife. That was denied. So can you imagine your You're behind bars for rape, but you're going to get conjugal visits from your wife. That's funny.
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Speaker 1: I would like to request that it's brought in for me. That thing that I was taking left and right, apparently. We're over the seven plus years or whatever he might do. That's seven years of him potentially going to trial for other... stuff.
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Speaker 3: That's absolutely true.
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Speaker 1: Roe, that could get tacked on to that.
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Speaker 3: Yes, there is most certainly more to come.
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Speaker 2: I don't think the police would come out and make it very clear that they have an active and open investigation with women coming forward and if they didn't believe that more charges might be possible.
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Speaker 3: So we will keep our eye on this situation.
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Speaker 2: We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone.
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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.