Officers were called to an alleged assault involving Russell Brand at his ex-girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith’s house, police have confirmed.
Thames Valley Police said officers were contacted by the alleged victim on 25 July 2014 but no arrests were made following the incident at her Oxfordshire home.
The officers stayed at the scene to ensure Brand left the address “as per the victim’s wishes”, their statement added.
Goldsmith posted on X on Monday, saying she had personal experience of the rapist comedian’s “violence, coercive control and abuse”.
Her statement added: “I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident.”
Brand, 51, was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years’ imprisonment on Monday for raping one of his fans and sexually assaulting three women during his rise to international fame.
Hours after the sentence was delivered at Southwark Crown Court, Brand’s ex-partner Jemima Goldsmith, the heiress and former wife of cricketer and former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, issued a statement on social media.
Ms Goldsmith, who dated Brand for around a year until September 2014, said: “I am and have always been strongly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims. I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified and ensured justice was done.
“I have had 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 at the time and not to go public with this, as I was worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children.
“I have neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014. Whilst my pain in relation to this, pales in comparison to what the women have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact.”
Ms Goldsmith said she had spent several years assisting the Channel 4 Dispatches, The Times and The Sunday Times journalists who first accused Brand of sexual misconduct in 2023, even undertaking to testify in court about the abuse she suffered if the outlets were sued for their claims.
She partly issued the 1,534-word message on Monday in response to “misleading reports” over a harassment injunction she and Brand secured against a masseuse in 2015.
The case stemmed from a birthday present massage arranged by Ms Goldsmith for Brand in June 2014, which was not in the end taken up. Masseuse Szilvia Berki had claimed she was assaulted by Brand, which he denied, and the alleged incident was investigated by police, who concluded there was no case to answer.
In her social media post, Ms Goldsmith said: “I was present the whole time he was with her, and I did not see anything untoward, despite the fact that he was later found guilty of sexually assaulting other women and he later physically assaulted me. If I saw any man abuse any woman under any circumstances, I would do my utmost to stop them, without hesitation.”
After the claim was made, Ms Berki initiated a campaign of harassment, Ms Goldsmith alleged in her statement, including sending disturbing emails and having untrue stories published in the press. They included antisemitic comments which were submitted to the judge which granted the injunction, Ms Goldsmith claimed.
The Independent has been unable to contact Ms Berki.
