Police attended Jemima Goldsmith’s Oxfordshire home in 2014 after she reported that Russell Brand had assaulted her.
Thames Valley Police confirmed that Ms Goldsmith contacted officers on July 25, 2014. No arrests were made after the incident at her £15million mansion.
A police statement said Brand was asked to leave the property “in accordance with the victim’s wishes”.
Ms Goldsmith spoke publicly yesterday, saying she had experienced the comedian’s “violence, coercive control and abuse”.
In her statement, she said: “I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident.”
She said she decided not to pursue a criminal complaint at the time because she feared the consequences for her own life and for her children. She did not provide further details about the alleged incident.
Brand was sentenced to ten-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being found guilty of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
The revelation comes amid renewed attention on a legal injunction involving Brand and Ms Goldsmith, who were in a relationship at the time, and massage therapist Szilvia Berki.
Ms Goldsmith hired the Hungarian therapist to massage Brand at Kiddington Hall, her home near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, in June 2014.
Ms Berki had agreed to a £500 fee for the appointment, which was scheduled on Brand’s birthday. The massage did not take place, and she later complained to police that the couple had treated her “like a prostitute”.
She reportedly told officers at a local police station that Brand had pushed her and that she had been left frightened after Ms Goldsmith’s white Alsatian jumped towards her.
Brand and Ms Goldsmith denied any wrongdoing, maintaining that they had arranged a “standard” massage rather than a sexual service.
Jemima Goldsmith, pictured with Russell Brand in 2013, has spoken of the convicted sex offender’s alleged “violence, coercive control and abuse”
Brand, pictured with his wife Laura at Southwark Crown Court last Thursday, has received a ten-and-a-half-year prison sentence
The police inquiry was eventually abandoned. Ms Berki continued to discuss the matter on social media, but a court ruled that her posts amounted to harassment and issued an order against her.
After Brand’s conviction and sentencing, Ms Goldsmith said she had also experienced violence during her relationship with him.
In a detailed statement posted on X, she wrote: “Firstly, and most importantly, I am and have always been firmly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims.
“I have enormous admiration for the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, shared their accounts, gave evidence and helped secure justice. I have my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse.
“I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident.
“I chose not to press charges or speak publicly at the time because I was concerned about the effect of press attention on my then-teenage children. I have not seen or spoken to Brand since that period in 2014.
“Although my pain is small compared with what the women described in court endured, it was still a deeply difficult period in my life and its effects have lasted.”
Ms Goldsmith said she had supported journalists for “several years”, including Ros Urwin, who helped expose allegations against Brand in a 2023 documentary repeatedly referenced during his trial.
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She said recent coverage of the injunction against Ms Berki had created “an untrue narrative” and triggered “vile hatred and abuse online” directed at her.
In October 2015, Brand and Ms Goldsmith secured an anti-harassment order that also prevented Ms Berki from communicating about either of them for life.
A court artist’s sketch depicts Brand in the dock during Monday’s sentencing hearing
The order prohibited her from publishing or sharing “any information” with “any person” about her visit to Ms Goldsmith’s home.
It also barred her from making “any allegation or insinuation” that Brand or Ms Goldsmith had committed a criminal offence against her, or had behaved towards her in a way that could constitute a criminal offence.
Ms Berki would also have breached the order by approaching, or responding to an inquiry from, any journalist or media organisation about either claimant.
She was ordered to pay the couple’s £50,000 legal bill, with Brand and Ms Goldsmith able to begin bankruptcy proceedings if the sum was not paid.
Ms Berki has since made three unsuccessful attempts to challenge the injunction through appeals.
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Russell Brand has been convicted of rape and three sexual assaults, with reporters Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull attending court throughout the trial. They spoke with Detective Inspector Laura Nelson, who explained why the women featured in the documentary that brought Brand’s alleged conduct to public attention were not involved in his rape trial.
It is understood that Ms Goldsmith has told Ms Berki she would support changing the injunction so that the therapist could contact police again.
However, such a change appears to require Brand’s consent. Ms Goldsmith is understood not to have spoken to him since 2014.
Ms Goldsmith alleged that Ms Berki had conducted “a campaign of vicious anti-Semitic and threatening abuse online and in emails”. She said the messages included an antisemitic slur directed at her and a remark wishing her “more” birthdays, which she interpreted as meaning that the sender hoped she would not die that year.
She added: “The number, tone and content of these messages was extremely frightening. They were distressing for my teenage children at the time and for my family. I feared Ms Berki might pose a genuine danger to me and my family.”
Ms Goldsmith said she supported modifying the injunction so that Ms Berki could report her allegations to the police.
She added that Ms Berki’s barrister had not replied to her.
“I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally received justice,” Ms Goldsmith said in conclusion.
Following Brand’s convictions, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he “wouldn’t be surprised if many more” alleged victims came forward.
On Monday, Brand received a nine-year sentence for rape, followed by an additional 18 months for sexually assaulting three other women.
He is expected to serve two-thirds of the sentence before being released on licence.
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