Michael Tracey questions the account behind one of Brand's rape convictions
Michael TraceyJournalist and commentator, posting on his own X account
Journalist Michael Tracey posted that one of the rapes Brand was convicted of allegedly took place after what the woman described as a consensual threesome with Brand followed by consensual vaginal sex, putting the word rapes in quotation marks.
“Here is one of the "rapes" that Russell Brand has just been convicted of. It allegedly occurred after what the woman says was a consensual threesome with Brand, followed by consensual vaginal sex.”
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Russell Brand denied nonconsensual sex; jury convicts him of rape and sexual assault
Russell Brand said his relationships during the period under scrutiny were consensual. A jury later convicted him of rape and three sexual assaults, while acquitting him on three other counts. Prosecutors described abuse of power; Megyn Kelly disputed the credibility of the account underlying the rape conviction.
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Tracey's post after the verdict, with an attached image of court reporting on the complainant's account in the rape count Brand was convicted of.
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Tracey posted on the afternoon of the verdict.
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The image attached to his post is a passage of court reporting stating that the threesome took place in Brand's dressing room after his Hammersmith Apollo show in 2009, and that the rape took place a week later at his home, after consensual vaginal sex. The jury convicted Brand on that count.
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The reference point is Brand's conduct toward the women in the case and his denial that any of his sexual encounters were nonconsensual. Tracey questions whether the conduct behind one conviction was rape by stressing the consensual sex the woman described before it, which challenges the characterization of that conduct.
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