Russell Brand, the raunchy, irreverent British comedian who became a celebrity darling in the early 2000s, has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison after being found guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

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[–] 26 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Happy to see the desperate conversion to Christianity (and right wing grift) didn't help him

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    He could be out in as little as 7 years. He was convicted of multiple violent rapes, with allegations of many more

    He got an incredibly lenient sentence

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago*

    He was convicted of one rape, and three sexual assaults.

    9yrs for the rape and 18, 9 and 8 months for the assaults.

    So he’s either at the high end of Cat 3 rape or the low end of Cat 2. It’s not incredibly lenient, but it doesn’t suggest the court was satisfied that it was “violent” beyond the inherent sexual violence. That would have been well into Cat 2 and been a longer sentence.

    Still, he had a long period in which he thought himself unstoppable, so already there are more people coming forward. I doubt this will be the limit of his time inside.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 hours ago* (6 children)

    Dude is a fucking pig. The people I always hate from day one always end up being the worst people. My radar knows a scumbag right away. Hope he gets treated like shit in prison.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    It's weird that the guy that played a sex pest in movies is an actual sex pest.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 hours ago

    Ah fuck glad he finally sees justice but this will put a damper on my rewatches of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 hours ago

    Elizabeth Cook, the courtroom artist has been banging out some great sketches of him, looking guilty and weaselly.

    They're not on her website, but I feel like I've seen about five different ones this morning.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    He’s a “comedian” ? I thought he was just a professional douche

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  • [–] 11 points 7 hours ago

    Always loved his stuff, thought he was hilarious, now it will be viewed, if ever, through the same tainted lens I view Weinstein for example's stuff. I am glad a powerful celebrity is facing the consequences. I hope this gives the victims a slight relief that he will be off the streets for years to come, I wish the victims healing and growth, they never deserved this

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  • [–] 11 points 2 hours ago

    I can't believe the state of journalism is so bad but then articles like this and I really have to think about it

    The amount of misinformation in this article, portraying Russell Brand as something he's not.

    He might be a grifter and a rapist but he's NOT a comedian.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    This drawing has him looking like Harrier Du Bois on a fascist play through

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  • [–] 10 points 6 hours ago

    10 years, 6 months, if anyone was wondering what the "more than" meant

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago

    I love t his for him....

    I hope he dies in prison.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago

    In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti, amen.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 child)
    1. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
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    [–] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago) (1 child)

    He’ll be out in 7 as they are only making him serve 2/3rds

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  • I wish he would have tried his mansolaining and talking over the judge.

    I really hope those other investigations put him right back in the courtroom.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (6 children)

    All we need now are Rose Bryne and Jonah Hill to have criminal crash outs and we can have a prison reunion for Get Him to the Greek.

    Jonah's making progress so far...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (3 children)

    I'm OOTL. What's going on with Jonah Hill?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    He's pulling a Shia Labeouf. He's super insecure these days.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 hour ago

    Why not when it happened?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    That's the Despicable Me films cancelled.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    I can honestly say I’ve hated everything I’ve seen him in.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    Dang, that was quick. Also a pathetically short sentence.

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