A resurfaced video shows convicted rapist Russell Brand laughing with his father about a trip to Hong Kong during which Ron Brand arranged for a prostitute to have sex with his teenage son.
The footage, featuring the comedian and his father—now aged 51 and 82—shows them joking about Brand’s encounters with sex workers when he was a teenager.
Brand has previously described the first encounter, saying his father hired three prostitutes that night: two for himself and one for Brand, who was 17. He said they had sex with the women in the same room.
The video has resurfaced after Brand was convicted and sentenced for rape and sexual assault.
Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison: nine years for one count of rape, plus an additional 18 months for the sexual assaults involving three women.
Speaking to his father in the footage, Brand says: ‘Remember that first night? The Mandarin Palace Hotel in Hong Kong? All them women sort of wearing swimsuits.’
He continues: ‘I remember thinking, f***ing hell, all of them women in swimsuits, I can’t wait to get back to our school and tell my mates.’
His father laughs before replying: ‘I wish I had my flippers.’
A resurfaced video shows convicted rapist Russell Brand laughing with his father about a Hong Kong trip during which Ron Brand arranged for a prostitute to have sex with his son
Brand with his wife at Southwark Crown Court last Thursday, hours before he was convicted
Brand then recalls, amid louder laughter from his father: ‘Then one of them came over, and started talking to me, and I thought wow, I can’t wait to tell my mates.’
He goes on to describe the woman kissing him and touching his penis.
‘I actually ended up telling my mates, it was about 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 adds.
Turning back to his father, he says: ‘And then you had that other one, and then I had that lovely young Filipino one didn’t I.’
Brand’s father replies: ‘You fell in love every time.’
Brand says he woke the next morning to find half-empty champagne glasses while his father read the newspaper.
‘And you going, “Did you wear a condom with that bird last night?”
‘I went, “No, no, no, never” and you went, “You should have”‘
Brand previously said he and the woman, who was only a few years older than him, had ‘timid, awkward sex’ that left him feeling he ‘loved’ her.
Despite those apparently fond recollections, the encounter was far from romantic. Brand said he could hear his father, who was in the adjoining bed with two women, shouting: ‘Bleeding hell! I’m going to be sick!’
Ron Brand spoke to reporters after his son was jailed for 10 years and six months for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others
The court heard that Brand displayed a ‘casual arrogant disregard to any woman’s right to say no’
When writing about the incident years later, Brand appeared unable to offer a conventional moral assessment of what had happened.
He wrote: ‘During the rest of that holiday I f****d loads more prostitutes and never wore a condom… my sexuality had morphed forever from bewildered innocence into something more complex and rapacious.’
Brand also said his father congratulated him for having sex with the prostitute, telling him: ‘I went away wiv a boy but I’m coming back wiv a man.’
In his first autobiography, My Booky Wook, Brand wrote that Ron had allowed him to look through his collection of pornographic magazines while he was still at primary school and watch pornographic videos.
Brand is expected to serve two-thirds of his 10-and-a-half-year sentence in prison.
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Following Monday’s sentencing, Ron Brand attempted to portray his son as the real ‘victim’ despite the convictions relating to attacks on four women.
Asked by a reporter whether he had a message for his son’s victims, he replied: ‘The victims, what victims? What Russell?’
When the reporter clarified that she meant ‘his victims’, he said: ‘The girls you mean, who chased and harassed him.’
Ron said he ‘didn’t care’ that his son had been convicted and criticised ‘the system’.
Mr Justice Bennathan, meanwhile, condemned what he called Brand’s ‘staggering arrogance’.
Addressing Brand, the judge said: ‘About 20 years ago, Russell Brand, you were becoming famous, you were clever, and in many people’s eyes you were funny and charismatic.
‘You had also become a sexual predator.’
The judge said Brand’s celebrity status protected him until 2023, when journalists from The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches exposed a series of sexual misconduct allegations. Their reporting was followed by women coming forward to police.
He said Brand showed a ‘casual arrogant disregard to any woman’s right to say no to you’ and that his fame led him to believe ‘you could act when you liked and how you liked’.
The judge added that evidence presented during the trial showed Brand’s entourage had ‘indulged your dreadful behaviour’ during his years as a celebrity.
Brand received a nine-year sentence for the rape, with a further 18 months added 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 woman who was raped told the court she had been a major Brand fan before attending his show at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2009. She said the comedian selected her from the audience and invited her backstage.
She later agreed to go to Brand’s £2.3 million townhouse in Hampstead Village, north London, to have sex.
However, she said the consensual encounter became rape after Brand removed his condom and had anal sex with her without her consent.
The court heard that Brand ignored her requests to stop and pinned her down until she struggled to breathe, before instructing her to clean up afterwards.
Brand was also convicted of sexually assaulting a female Channel 4 employee during a recording session in 2009, shortly after he began dating Ms Perry.
The woman was working alone with Brand and members of his entourage when, she said, he threatened to disrupt the recording and forced her to massage him. He then knelt down and thrust his head into her groin.
The jury additionally found Brand guilty of sexually assaulting an MTV employee at a Soho bar during a birthday celebration in 2004.
The woman said Brand, wearing a ‘weird maniacal grin’, grabbed her breasts within seconds of meeting her.
He was also convicted of sexually assaulting a Capital Radio employee after encountering her in a corridor in 2005.
She told the court Brand kissed her ‘sloppily’, groped her and laughed when she eventually managed to push him away.
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