Russell Brand donated £3,000 to a rape charity months after attacking 21-year-old victim at his mansion

Russell Brand reportedly made a donation of £3,000 to a rape charity just months after he attacked a woman at his mansion. 

The disgraced comedian, 51, was on Monday jailed for more than ten years after being convicted of raping a fan and sexually assaulting three others between 2004 and 2009. 

The rape happened after one of Brand's stand-up shows at the Hammersmith Apollo in west London in 2009. 

Then, 33, he pushed the woman face-down into a pillow on his 'enormous' bed and removed his condom while raping her, leaving the woman struggling to breathe. 

She was left bleeding from her anus and afterwards said Brand ordered her to 'clean up the mess you've made' before switching on the TV to watch the science fiction series Quantum Leap.

It has now been reported that only months later Brand made a payment of £3,000 to the South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre to help pay for its 25th anniversary party. 

The charity's founder, Sheila Coates, told the BBC: 'He supported four or five local charities in the area he was from, but this is really about his abuse of power, the other part of the Russell Brand personality. 

'We were engaged in fundraising activity and wrote to lots of famous people and asked for a donation and he happened to be on the list. We were responded to by his management, not him, he wasn't in the country. We had no contact with him at all.

Russell Brand, 51, is pictured outside Southwark Crown Court on November 3

The comedian's wife Laura Brand is pictured arriving for her partner's sentencing earlier this week

'There is something about celebrity, money, power, control. When you get fame and money, some men abuse that position and that's what he's done.' 

After his conviction last week, it was revealed that two further rape allegations against Brand are already being investigated by detectives and Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he expects more victims to come forward.

The Met confirmed it is probing information from 'several people' who have come forward.

A spokesman for the force said: 'Several people have contacted the investigation team during and since the trial to provide information or report a potential criminal allegation. Detectives are assessing this information as part of their ongoing enquiries.'

On Monday, Brand's former girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith, 52, became the latest to publicly come forward, accusing the comic of 'violence, coercive control and abuse'. 

She said she was so terrified after a 'violent incident' in 2014 that she called police to remove him from her £15million Cotswolds mansion.

An unrepentant Brand showed no emotion as a judge said he had abused his celebrity to prey on women, believing 'fame meant you could act how you liked, when you liked, unhindered by the rules by which decent people live'.

In the dock, Brand sat blinking in disbelief as he was told that he will serve at least seven years of a ten-and-a-half-year sentence for attacks on four women.

Brand is pictured at The Tempest film premiere in October 2010

Brand now faces the prospect of a second trial as police sift through a raft of new claims, and prosecutors are expected to decide within weeks whether to charge him with two further alleged rapes, including an attack on a 16-year-old.

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Mr Justice Bennathan said the defendant had harboured a 'casual arrogant disregard to any woman's right to say no to you', telling him: 'About 20 years ago, Russell Brand, you were becoming famous, you were clever, and in many people's eyes you were funny and charismatic. You had also become a sexual predator.'

The judge blasted Brand's 'staggering arrogance' and belief that his 'status protected' him after he resorted to smearing journalists when they first exposed his attacks in 2023.

He also criticised Brand's entourage for indulging 'dreadful behaviour' after assaults took place in front of staff who laughed or did nothing.

He paid tribute to the 'determination and bravery' of the victims.

'All those women had to face being confronted and being told they had lied, or twisted the truth and, or, they had agreed to your sexual demands: that was all done because of you, on your instructions,' he said.

Mr Justice Bennathan made a point of condemning rape myths after Brand's defence barrister came under fire for reeling off a series of stereotypes, suggesting the victims should not be believed because they did not scream more, kick or slap him.

The judge said: 'Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no and to demand justice from the criminal courts when sexual predators like you, Russell Brand, act without their consent.'

Brand's barrister, Ian Winter KC, was paid around £1million for defending him, legal sources have told the Daily Mail.

Mr Winter was hired after several top female barristers refused to defend him, it is understood.

But the move backfired, with Mr Winter facing a Bar Standards Board probe after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at the journalist whose investigation exposed Brand, telling her after the verdict that she had 'f*****' justice.

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