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Updated on: November 10, 2026 / 4:58 AM EST / CBS News

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Disgraced actor Russell Brand was sentenced Monday to 10 and a half years in prison for raping a woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three others.

The disgraced British television personality and Hollywood actor was convicted last week on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, but acquitted on two other counts of rape and an attempted indecent assault charge.

A jury of eight men and four women in Southwark Crown Court, in South London, found Brand guilty of groping a woman's breasts at a London bar in 2004, sexually assaulting…