Claims extracted
24
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
4%
1 of 24 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
65/100
Evening Standard's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
54
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Giving evidence at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, the woman told jurors she engaged willingly in a threesome with Brand backstage at the Hammersmith Apollo despite having a boyfriend at the time, then agreed to have sex with him at his home a few days later.
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she → give → home
She alleges Brand forced her into anal sex without warning, at the end of a consensual but “awkward” sexual encounter.
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Brand → allege → encounter
“I haven’t painted myself in a very good light,” she told the court.
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she → paint → court
“I had just met Russell Brand at the Hammersmith Apollo, I did have a partner I really loved, and I made a huge mistake
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I → meet → mistake
Brand’s barrister, Ian Winter KC, highlighted that the woman was a “massive fan” of Brand at the time, and he suggested she had gone to his home knowing they would have “transactional” sex.
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they → highlight → sex
She replied: “I didn’t think I was going to be his girlfriend.”
Mr Winter pressed on: “In a way you went along with what he wanted because you were impressionable and obsessed with him,” before suggesting the woman had “agreed to” the anal sex.
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woman → reply → sex
She replied: “I didn’t agree to do it.”
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I → reply → it
The court has heard the woman has spoken to friends, family, and a journalist in the years since her interactions with Brand, and she has also battled alcoholism.
In her interview with police, she repeatedly made a point of saying that she had consented to the Apollo sexual encounter and had willingly gone to Brand’s house for sex.
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she → hear → sex
But she insists that she never agreed to anal sex.
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she → insist → sex
She told the court in evidence: “We are not here to discuss my morality.”
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We → tell → morality
Mr Winter put to her: “What you have struggled with is you went there consenting to what happened.”
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what → put → What
She replied: “I didn’t consent to what happened to me.
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what → reply → me
I’ve said that repeatedly in the questioning.”
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I → say → questioning
The woman told the court she encountered Brand at the Edinburgh Festival after the alleged rape, and in a text exchange she told him: “I think you’ve pushed me far enough, you treated me like an animal.”
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you → tell → animal
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She says Brand replied: “I’m sorry” immediately afterwards, and she told the jury: “I feel how I felt at his house was that I felt completely degraded and like I’d been treated like an animal, like a piece of meat.”
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I → read → meat
Mr Winter, presenting Brand’s case that she had consented to the whole sexual encounter, told the woman: “He had pushed you and probably had treated you like an animal, but he didn’t rape you.”
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he → present → you
The woman replied: “I didn’t consent.”
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I → reply → ?
She added: “I carried that feeling of guilt and shame and I felt lots of things but particularly for exactly the reason that you are doing right here that I brought it on myself.
“That just because you go somewhere willingly and the outcome in the end is not consensual, it’s a different scenario.”
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it → add → end
He said Brand’s Apollo show was “crammed largely with young women”, adding: “On occasions, women were actually throwing their bras at him and lifting their shirts to show their naked breasts at him.”
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women → say → him
The woman agreed the tone of Brand’s show, including stand-up material about “the previously unspoken nature” of sex, would not now be tolerated.
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tone → agree → sex
“Things have changed between those times and now,” he said.
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he → change → times
“In terms of that sort of attitude towards women, things have fundamentally changed now.”
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things → change → women
Brand denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, and one charge of indecent assault.
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Brand → deny → assault
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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