Jemima Goldsmith Russell Brand physical assault allegations, Digi Mart USA News: TV producer Jemima Goldsmith has said her former partner, comedian Russell Brand, physically assaulted her, and she accused him of “violence, coercive control and abuse.” The 52-year-old made the statement in a social media post on Monday.
Goldsmith said she has always been “strongly and unequivocally” on the side of Brand’s victims. She spoke about her own “painful” experience with him shortly after Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
In her post on X, Goldsmith praised the “courageous women” who came forward at Brand’s trial. She wrote that she had her own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse, and said she had to call the police to have him removed from her house in 2014 during a violent incident.
Goldsmith said she chose not to press charges at the time and did not go public, as she was worried about the impact of press attention on her then teenage children. She said she has neither seen nor spoken to Brand since 2014, and described the period as a difficult time with a lasting impact.
On Thursday, Brand was found guilty of raping a fan and sexually assaulting three women in separate incidents between 2004 and 2009. He was cleared of two further charges of rape and one of attempted indecent assault.
Goldsmith, known professionally as Jemima Khan, is reported to have been in a relationship with Brand for about a year from around September 2013. She said she had assisted journalists who exposed Brand in a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary and in reports in The Times and Sunday Times in 2023.
She also said she had undertaken to testify in court about his abusiveness if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts were ever sued.
Goldsmith made the comments amid renewed press reporting about a harassment injunction she and Brand took out in 2014 against a woman named Szilvia Berki. Goldsmith, who married former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan in 1995, said online commentary and media reporting about the injunction had presented “an untrue narrative” and exposed her to “vile hatred and abuse online.”
Berki had made allegations against Brand to the police after she was booked to give him a massage at Goldsmith’s home in June 2014. It is understood the police found there was no case to answer.
Goldsmith said in her statement that she was present the whole time Brand was with Berki and did not see anything untoward. She added that, if she saw any man abuse any woman under any circumstances, she would do her utmost to stop him without hesitation.
Goldsmith alleged that a series of “untrue stories” appeared in the tabloid press and that Berki embarked on a campaign of “threatening abuse online and in emails.” The Guardian said it has not been able to reach Berki.
Brand and Goldsmith applied for the harassment injunction against Berki. The injunction was granted by High Court judge Mr Justice Jay, a former leading counsel in the Leveson inquiry.
It was brought to light by the non-profit campaigning thinktank Tax Policy Associates, founded by former tax lawyer Dan Neidle, after Brand’s conviction.
