Conservative activists, including former Fox News host Megyn Kelly and billionaire businessman Elon Musk, have expressed outrage over the sentencing of comedian-turned-conspiracy-podcaster Russell Brand, who was sentenced Monday to more than a decade in prison.
A British court on Monday ordered the 51-year-old “Bring Him to the Greek” star to serve 10 and a half years in prison for raping a woman and sexually assaulting three others on Monday. The offenses occurred while Brand’s star was on the rise between 2004 and 2009. A jury convicted him on Thursday. He denies any wrongdoing.
“Unfair,” Musk said on his social media platform the morning the sentence was handed down.
The Tesla and SpaceX boss expressed his “support” for Brand in a 2023 article defending the star’s character.
Kelly, who previously expressed skepticism about the accusations against the British actor on her podcast, was more animated in her response before her sentencing.
“I don’t believe these accusations. I’ll be honest. I don’t believe it,” she repeated after her conviction.
Brand admitted to Kelly in an April interview that he had slept with a 16-year-old girl in Europe when he was 30, but maintained it was not against the law.
“I was a very different person,” said Brand, who shares Kelly’s right-wing political leaning.
Brand married author Laura Gallacher in 2017. They have three children.
“Everything will be fine,” he told her after being taken to jail last week.
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