{"id":50826,"date":"2026-10-16T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/russell-brand-was-wild-eyed-maniac-when-trying-to-drag-woman-into-toilets-court-told\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:44:45","slug":"russell-brand-was-wild-eyed-maniac-when-trying-to-drag-woman-into-toilets-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/russell-brand-was-wild-eyed-maniac-when-trying-to-drag-woman-into-toilets-court-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand was \u2018wild-eyed maniac\u2019 when trying to drag woman into toilets, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman says she \u2018wrenched\u2019 herself free of assault that allegedly took place when she was working at MTV in 2001<\/p>\n<p>Russell Brand transformed into a \u201cwild-eyed maniac\u201d when he tried to drag a woman into the men\u2019s toilets for a sexual encounter before she \u201cwrenched\u201d herself free, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old comedian is accused of indecently assaulting the woman who told Southwark crown court: \u201cI emerged relatively unscathed. He didn\u2019t manage to rape me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/oct\/16\/russell-brand-wild-eyed-maniac-drag-woman-toilets-court-told\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman says she \u2018wrenched\u2019 herself free of assault that allegedly took place when she was working at MTV in 2001 Russell Brand transformed into a \u201cwild-eyed maniac\u201d when he tried to drag a woman into the men\u2019s toilets for a sexual encounter before she \u201cwrenched\u201d herself free, a court has heard. The 51-year-old comedian is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 06:19:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}