Jemima Goldsmith says ex-partner Russell Brand assaulted her

Jemima Goldsmith, a television producer known professionally as Jemima Khan, has said that her former partner, Russell Brand, physically assaulted her. She made the statement in a post on X on Monday, shortly after Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. In the post, she accused him of "violence, coercive control and abuse," as The Guardian reported.

Goldsmith was previously married to Imran Khan, a cricketer and former prime minister of Pakistan. Reports say she and Brand were in a relationship for about a year from around September 2013.

Brand was found guilty of raping a fan and sexually assaulting three women in separate incidents between 2004 and 2009.

Goldsmith said that in 2014, during a violent incident, she had to call the police to have Brand removed from her house. She said she chose not to press charges at the time, and did not go public, because she was worried about press attention on her then-teenage children. She said she has neither seen nor spoken to Brand since 2014.

Goldsmith also described her role in later reporting on Brand. She said she assisted journalists who exposed him in a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary and in reports in The Times and The Sunday Times in 2023. She said she had undertaken to testify in court to Brand's abusiveness if the newspaper that published victims' accounts were sued.

The 2014 period also involved a legal case. Goldsmith and Brand took out a harassment injunction, a court order that restricts a person's contact or conduct, against Szilvia Berki. Berki had been booked to give Brand a massage at Goldsmith's home in June 2014, and she made allegations against him to police afterwards. The order, granted by High Court judge Mr Justice Jay, banned her from speaking to anyone about those allegations.

In 2014, Brand and Khan said that their dispute with Berki had caused considerable distress.