Jemima Goldsmith Accuses Russell Brand of Violence and Coercive Control

Jemima Goldsmith, British socialite and former wife of Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, has broken her silence on Russell Brand after his conviction for rape and sexual assault. She accused Brand of violence, coercive control and abuse during their relationship, which lasted around a year in the 2010s.

Goldsmith said she was forced to call police to have Brand removed from her home in 2014 following a violent confrontation. She chose not to press criminal charges at the time because she worried about press attention affecting her then teenage children.

“Firstly, and most importantly, I am and have always been strongly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims.”

She stated she has neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014. Her decision to speak out came after misleading reports and speculation about a harassment injunction taken out to protect her and her family resurfaced in the press.

Goldsmith said she stands strongly and unequivocally on the side of all Brand’s victims. She praised the courageous women who testified at his trial and ensured justice was done.

She also said she assisted journalists who exposed him and undertook to testify in court about his abusiveness if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts were ever sued.

Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.

Goldsmith described her own experience as painful and personal, saying it had a lasting impact though it paled in comparison to what the women testified in court had suffered.