A London judge on Monday sentenced Q-pilled formerly Hollywood-marketable star Russell Brand to 10 years and six months in prison following last week’s verdict finding Brand guilty of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault, Sky News reports on the downfall of a top grifter in the MAGA alt-information ecosystem. Even after his indictment, Brand took the stage at last December’s Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest to talk to the crowd about his faith in Jesus Christ. Fucking asshole.
Brand, once known to US audiences as the legitimately funny Bono/Sting caricature Aldous Snow in the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the less-successful but still sort-of decent 2010 spin-off Get Him to the Greek, saw his career stall out while married to pop star Katy Perry. One report about their divorce described Brand, a sobriety freak, as reliably miserable when showing up to drive Perry home from boozy Hollywood parties. A decade later he’d reinvented himself as a YouTube edgelord with millions of subscribers, who in 2023 reacted to conspiracy theory bullshit about Lahaina, Hawaii being incinerated by a Jewish space laser on loan to a shadowy cabal of ruthless real estate developers by saying “Whether it’s true or not, it feels true, and in terms of results, it is kind of true. There is a conspiracy to keep you poor and benefit rich elites.”
Brand was estimated to have made about $5 million in 2024 off of his videos ripping rich elites.