Guardian Australia · Russell Brand

The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapist

· By Geraldine Mckelvie
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Former comedian long traded on his extreme persona, yet many will wonder how he was allowed to act in plain sight for so longIn the early 1990s, when he was a student at the Italia Conti theatre school, a teenage Russell Brand became so fixated on a classmate that he followed her for 200 miles, trailing her through …

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