Resurfaced video footage shows comedian Russell Brand and his father recalling nights spent with prostitutes in Hong Kong when Brand was 17. The footage emerged following Brand's sentencing to 10 years and six months in prison for rape and sexual assault.
In the video, Brand describes how his father hired three prostitutes for a holiday to Hong Kong. He recounts that his father hired two for himself and one for Brand, who was then 17. Brand stated that they had sex with these women in the same room. "Remember that first night? The Mandarin Palace Hotel in Hong Kong? All them women sort of wearing swimsuits," Brand says in the video, prompting laughter from his father, Ron Brand.
Brand further describes how one of the women approached him, and he recalled the encounter as "three prostitutes in the back of a taxi, with the clicker clack of my high heels on a marble hotel lobby floor going up to that beautiful room." He also mentioned his father's remark upon hearing about the encounter: "Did you wear a condom with that bird last night?" to which Brand replied, "No, no, no, never," and his father responded, "You should have."
Brand's father, Ron Brand, has reportedly defended his son following the conviction, with one report quoting him saying, "The girls you mean, who chased and harassed him." The judge in the case, Mr Justice Bennathan, characterized Brand as a "sexual predator" with "staggering arrogance" and a "casual arrogant disregard to any woman's right to say no."
Brand was convicted of rape and three counts of sexual assault against four women. The judge imposed a nine-year jail term for the rape and an additional 18 months for the sexual assaults. One victim described Brand as "a sexual predator who has no remorse for how his behaviour has impacted my life." The court heard that Brand believed his status protected him from consequences until allegations were exposed in 2023.