LONDON, Nov 9 — British comedian and TV star Russell Brand, who became a household name in the 2000s as a sex-obsessed provocateur, will find out today how long he will spend in jail, after he was convicted of rape and sexual assaults.
Brand’s conviction last week marked the final blow in a scandal-hit showbiz career that saw him embody the anything-goes culture of 2000s British TV and radio.
Today, he will be sentenced at London’s Southwark Crown Court, where he was told by the judge he faced a “significant custodial term” after being found guilty of one rape and three sexual assaults against four women, committed between 2004 and 2009.
The maximum sentence in the UK for rape is life imprisonment.
