Russell Brand was ordered to leave his ex-girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith‘s house after she claimed he assaulted her, police have confirmed.
Thames Valley Police said officers were contacted by the heiress on July 25, 2014 but no arrests were made following the incident at her £15million Oxfordshire mansion.
Brand was asked to leave the address ‘as per the victim’s wishes’, their statement added.
Ms Goldsmith spoke out yesterday to say 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.’
On social media, she described how she opted not to press charges at the time due to fears about the impact on her life and the lives of her children, but did not go into detail about what is alleged to have happened.
Brand was jailed for ten-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
It follows reporting this week surrounding a legal injunction sought by Brand and Ms Goldsmith, who were then a couple, against massage therapist Szilvia Berki.
The Hungarian was hired by Ms Goldsmith to massage Brand at her home, Kiddington Hall, near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, in June 2014.
Ms Berki agreed a fee of £500 for the session on Brand’s birthday. However, the massage never happened and Ms Berki made a complaint against the couple to police, saying ‘they’d treated her like a prostitute’.
She reportedly went to her local police station and said she was pushed by Brand and left terrified after Ms Goldsmith’s white Alsatian jumped at her.
Brand and Ms Goldsmith denied claims of wrongdoing and insisted they’d ordered a ‘standard’ rather than sexual massage.
Jemima Goldsmith, pictured with Russell Brand in 2013, has accused the rapist of ‘violence, coercive control and abuse’
Brand, pictured with his wife Laura at Southwark Crown Court last Thursday, has been jailed for ten and a half years
The police investigation was ultimately dropped. However, Ms Berki continued to post on social media about the incident, which a court found amounted to harassment and granted an order against her.
Following Brand’s sentencing, Ms Goldsmith said she too had been subjected to ‘violence’ at the hands of her former boyfriend.
In a lengthy statement on X, she said: ‘Firstly, and most importantly, 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 has assisted journalists over ‘several years’, including Ros Urwin, one of those responsible for revealing Brand’s abuse in a 2023 documentary that was often mentioned during his trial.
She continued that reporting this week about the injunction against Ms Berki ‘has presented an untrue narrative, which has opened me up to vile hatred and abuse online’.
In October 2015, Brand and Ms Goldsmith were granted an anti-harassment order, which also silenced Ms Berki for life, banning her from any communication ‘about’ Brand and Ms Goldsmith.
A court artist’s sketch shows Brand in the dock during his sentencing hearing on Monday
It stopped her from publishing or disclosing ‘any information’ to ‘any person’ about her visit to Ms Goldsmith’s home.
It also banned her from making ‘any allegation or insinuation’ that Brand or Ms Goldsmith ‘committed any criminal offence’ against her or ‘behaved towards her in a manner which may amount to a criminal offence’.
She would breach the order if she was to ‘make any approach to, or respond to, any enquiry from any journalist or media organisation in relation to the claimants or either of them’.
She was ordered to pay Brand and Ms Goldsmith’s £50,000 legal costs and the couple could launch bankruptcy procedures if she did not stump up.
Ms Berki has subsequently launched three unsuccessful attempts to appeal the order.
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It is understood Ms Goldsmith has told Ms Berki she would agree to vary the injunction to allow her to contact police again.
To do so, however, appears to require Brand’s approval. Ms Goldsmith is understood not to have talked to him since 2014.
Ms Goldsmith said Ms Berki had ’embarked on a campaign of vicious anti-Semitic and threatening abuse online and in emails’ including calling her a ‘deeply rotted JEWISH b****’ and saying ‘happy birthday (Jemima). I hope you have more. In other words I hope you don’t die this year.’
She went on: ‘The number, tone and content of these messages was extremely frightening. It was distressing for my then teenage children and my family. I was concerned that Ms Berki was potentially a real danger to my family and me.’
Ms Goldsmith added that she is supportive of varying the injunction to allow the massage therapist to speak to police about her allegations.
She said Ms Berki’s barrister has not responded to her.
‘I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally received justice,’ Ms Goldsmith concluded.
In the wake of Brand’s convictions, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he ‘wouldn’t be surprised if many more’ victims came forward.
On Monday, Brand was sentenced to nine years in prison for rape, and a further 18 months for sexual assaults on three other women.
It is estimated he will serve two-thirds of his sentence before being released on licence.
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