A woman who alleges she was groomed by Russell Brand at 16, when he was 30, has become the first of the former comedian’s accusers to publicly identify herself.
Mia Latter, now 37, was previously known only as ‘Alice’. She has chosen to reveal her identity to speak openly about the alleged abuse she says she experienced as a teenager.
Mia said she was coming forward as part of a campaign for a staggered age of consent, which would prohibit relationships between adults and people under 18. The UK’s current age of consent is 16, a threshold introduced in 1885.
Mia, who is married and has a daughter, alleges that Brand arranged BBC-funded taxis to collect her from school and take her to his flat for sex.
During Brand’s trial, his defence team claimed that the women featured in the 2023 Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, ‘In Plain Sight’, were actresses and questioned whether some of them even existed. Mia appeared in the programme as a silhouette and was identified as ‘Alice’.
Brand denied all the allegations made in the original 2023 investigation. Mia contacted police after the documentary was broadcast, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to include her in the trial. Officers told her they wanted her to give evidence if a second trial took place.
Mia Latter, pictured, is the first of Russell Brand’s accusers to waive her anonymity. She alleges he abused her when he was 30 and she was 16.
Mia alleges that Brand orally raped her. She says he arranged for cars, paid for by the BBC while he hosted a Radio 6 Music programme, to take her from school to his home.
The pair met in 2006, when Brand was working for MTV and the BBC. He approached Mia in Leicester Square after she had been shopping at Topshop.
Brand looked through her shopping bags, selected a dress and told her she would wear it on their first date.
Mia told the Sunday Times: ‘I thought that the second I said, ‘I’m 16′ he was going to block me.’ Instead, she said, Brand asked whether she wanted to have dinner with him the following day.
She said he met her outside Belsize Park tube station for their first date, took her hand and asked her to confirm that she was 16. He then allegedly told her: ‘I don’t give a f*** how old you are. I just need to know where I stand legally.’
The meeting took place on Easter Sunday, a detail Mia remembers because Brand told her that their encounter was ‘what Jesus would’ve wanted’.
After her distressed parents took away her phone and grounded her, Mia said Brand sent cars to her school to pick her up. Some of those vehicles were paid for by the BBC while he presented The Russell Brand Show on Radio 6 Music.
Mia says she is campaigning for a staggered age of consent in the UK, which would prevent adults from having relationships with 16- and 17-year-olds.
Brand pictured arriving at Southwark Crown Court on October 13.
Mia also alleges that Brand called her ‘the child’ in front of his entourage and manager John Noel. She says he instructed her not to tell her classmates about the relationship and encouraged her to read Nabokov’s Lolita.
Mia told the Sunday Times that, towards the end of their relationship, Brand forced her against the headboard of his bed and orally raped her.
She said she struck him in the stomach to make him stop, at which point he told her he ‘just wanted to see your mascara run’. Mia later discovered that he had used the line in one of his stand-up routines.
Mia left sixth form after her attendance dropped to 30 per cent. She says she still does not know how she performed in her AS examinations.
In an interview with conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly earlier this year, Brand said the UK’s age of consent was 16 and acknowledged that he had slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30.
He described himself as an ‘immature 30-year-old’ and said that consensual sex involving a power imbalance, including one created by fame, ‘involves exploitation’.
Brand was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for rape and three counts of sexual assault on Monday.
Mia told The Times: ‘He was a very successful man who had a lot of power and sway in the industry. Whereas I was a 16-year-old with no life experience, no sexual experience and no prior relationships. What was my level of maturity meant to be?’
Brand later addressed his remarks from Kelly’s programme in an interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored.
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Russell Brand has been convicted of rape and three sexual assaults, while our reporters Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull attended every day of the trial. They spoke to Detective Inspector Laura Nelson, who explained why the women who accused Brand in the documentary did not take part in his rape trial.
She said police had told her they wanted her to testify at a possible second trial after prosecutors excluded her from the first case.
However, Mia has decided not to pursue the criminal process so she can concentrate on her campaign to ‘protect teenagers from being groomed by older men or women’.
Although Ms Latter said she did not wish to continue with the criminal proceedings, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed that its investigation into the alleged rape remains open.
In Florida, where Brand lived before going to prison, the age of consent is 18 unless the partner is no more than 23 years old.
A Met Police spokesperson said: ‘Officers launched an investigation in January 2026 after receiving an allegation of rape.
‘Detectives sought advice from the Crown Prosecution Service to determine how best to proceed, and officers were advised that further information was needed before a charging decision could be made.
‘This investigation remains ongoing. We understand the delay has been distressing for this victim-survivor. However, our focus has been on putting forward the best possible evidence.’
Brand was convicted of attacks against four of the six women who gave evidence against him. He is serving a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence for one count of rape and three sexual assaults.
On Friday night, eight further women came forward with allegations of sexual abuse and predatory behaviour against the 51-year-old.
Brand now faces the possibility of a second trial, as detectives assess information from more than half a dozen new complainants who contacted police after his conviction earlier this week.
Police are also completing work on evidence files submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service concerning claims by two additional women, including an allegation that Brand raped a 16-year-old.
New allegations emerged on Friday in the Netflix documentary ‘Russell Brand: Open Secret’. Former girlfriend Jordan Martin accused Brand of sexually assaulting her and making her brush her teeth until they bled.
The Times also published details from six other women, including allegations that Brand had sex with one woman without her consent and continued having sex with another after she asked him to stop because he was hurting her.
The investigation follows a recent account from Daily Mail columnist Bryony Gordon, who bravely described her own encounter with Brand when she was 25.
Gordon said that, while she was vulnerable and struggling with OCD and bulimia, Brand propositioned her and persuaded her to spend the night at his home. She said he made her gargle mouthwash before they kissed.
‘I’m not going to go into the details of the rest of my night with Brand. But what I will say is that when I left the next day, any discomfort I had about the encounter I blamed squarely on myself,’ she wrote.
‘I thought I was the problem, not him – I was a prude, not adventurous or sparkly enough for a man as charismatic and charming as him.’
The latest allegations come as comedians and presenters who worked closely with Brand during the 2000s and early 2010s condemn his crimes and publicly distance themselves from him.
On Friday night, Bake Off presenter Noel Fielding said he was ‘horrified and deeply disturbed’ by the rape conviction of his former friend, adding that he had been ‘completely unaware’ of Brand’s crimes.
The pair were prominent comedy collaborators and friends during the 2000s and 2010s. They were eventually nicknamed ‘The Goth Detectives’ because of their similar emo-inspired style, and Fielding frequently referred to Brand in interviews.
But Fielding, 53, appeared to separate himself from his former colleague after facing growing pressure to respond to Brand’s conviction.
The Bake Off presenter described his relationship with Brand, 51, as ‘professional rather than personal’. Brand was jailed for 10-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of one rape and three sexual assaults.
Fielding also apologised for jokes he made with Brand, calling them ‘horrible and inappropriate’ and saying he ‘very much regretted’ them.
He told the Sun: ‘I was horrified and deeply disturbed to learn of Russell Brand’s crimes, which I was completely unaware of until they became public knowledge. My thoughts are with the women whose courage brought him to justice.
‘I appeared on TV, radio and live charity shows with him, and whilst we played it up for the cameras and in the media, I considered it a professional relationship, rather than a personal one.’
He added: ‘I have had no contact with him for many years.’
Fielding said he had reconsidered some of the jokes he made alongside Brand and been ‘appalled’ by them, adding that he deeply regretted them.
Fielding has never been accused of misconduct, and there is no suggestion that he knew about Brand’s crimes.
Questions have also been raised over whether other comedians knew about Brand’s alleged sexual abuse and predatory conduct during the 2000s.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that investigations into two rape allegations against Brand remain ongoing. Its chief, Sir Mark Rowley, said he would not be surprised if ‘many more’ alleged victims came forward.
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