Thames Valley Police have confirmed they ordered Russell Brand to leave his then-girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith’s house after reports of an assault
Russell Brand was ordered to leave his then-girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith’s house after reports of an assault, police have confirmed.
Thames Valley Police said officers were contacted by Goldsmith on July 25 2014 but no arrests were made following the incident at her Oxfordshire home.
Brand was asked to leave the address ‘as per the victim’s wishes’, their statement added.
Hours after Brand’s sentencing on Monday, Ms Goldsmith posted on X, revealing she had personal experience of the rapist comedian’s “violence, coercive control and abuse”.
Her statement added: “I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident.”
Brand was jailed for 10-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
He has since been accused of further violence by his former partner Jemima Goldsmith, who recalled how she had to call the police in order to have him removed from her house during a “violent incident”.
Ms Goldsmith, who reportedly dated Brand for a year in 2014, wrote she has her own experience of his “violence, coercive control and abuse”, and has neither seen nor spoken to the convicted rapist since that period.
Brand and Goldsmith dated for a year in 2014.
The TV producer posted on X on Monday, saying she had personal experience of the shamed comedian’s “violence, coercive control and abuse”.
Goldsmith, 52, said she was “in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial” and said she assisted the journalists who exposed him.
In the post, which was made hours after Brand was jailed for raping one of his fans and sexually assaulting three TV and radio workers, she said she was “glad and relieved” Brand has “finally faced justice”.
She wrote: “I am and have always been strongly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims. I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified and ensured justice was done.
“I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse. I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident.”
Goldsmith said she chose not to press charges and go public as she was worried about the impact of the press attention on her children.
She went on: “I have neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014.
“Whilst my pain in relation to this, pales in comparison to what the women have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact.
“Over several years, I assisted the journalists who finally exposed him; Ros Urwin, Louisa Compton and Dorothy Byrne. I also undertook to testify in court to his abusiveness, if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts were ever to be sued.”
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