Russell Brand In Prison: Marinated Memories

Here are three words I never thought I’d utter: Poor Russell Brand.

Yep, the sleazy, horny, gross British celebrity who made us laugh in “Get Him To The Greek” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” is starting to serve a 10-year-6-month sentence for rape and sexual assault.

He was sentenced this week in London after six women claimed to recall unwanted sexual encounters with the famous Lothario. Those incidents were 20 years old.

I know, I know, we’ve been ordered to BELIEVE ALL WOMEN. But as someone who has been female her whole life and who knows countless other woman, I happen to know - first-hand - that some of my sisters are capable of stupendous lies.

Sometimes those lies result in death: Anyone else remember the hideous case of poor Emmett Till? A lie led to his kidnapping and brutal murder.

How about the prostitute who claimed she was raped by the Duke lacrosse team and later admitted she made it up?

Then there was the Tawana Brawley hoax in New York City where a 15 year-old black girl claimed she’d kidnapped and raped by four white men. Again, fabricated out of whole cloth. One of the accused successfully sued her for defamation.

Back to Brand. By his own admission, Brand lived most of his adult life debauched and drugged. He admitted to a voracious sexual appetite that was usually satisfied by eager groupies who wanted to be with him.

Pigs, all of them.

About 20 years after the fact a half dozen women came forward - without any meaningful evidence other than their marinated memories - to accuse Brand of unwanted sexual advances and rape. I’d go into the details of the so-called rape, but the accuser’s actions prior to the act that got him more than 10 years in prison were so perverted and unnatural I won’t repeat them.

The rich and famous and the people who adore them really aren’t like the rest of us. They engage in twisted sexual acts with people they barely know. Later, filled with remorse and shame, they sometimes claim the acts were not consensual.

Meanwhile, for the past 30 years, Pakistani grooming gangs have been roaming England, grabbing underage girls and trafficking them for sex. The UK has no official statistics on how many of these sickos were arrested and imprisoned, but it’s been suggested that relatively few were caught and punished.

Yet the crown went after Russell Brand with a vengeance and dropped almost 11 years in prison on the actor, comedian and writer without DNA or concurrent police reports.

Is/was Brand a disgusting human being? Yep. Were his “victims” mostly mouth-breathing groupies who engaged willingly in many sex acts with him? Yes again. Were some of those actions forced on the women? Who knows.

Their marinated memories say yes. Brand says no.

Right now the 57-year-old sex offender is in prison and news reports say he’s been isolated from the other inmates who want to kill him.

When women wait decades to report abuse skeptics - like me - question why they’re coming forward now.

Remorse is not rape. Yet in the Russell Brand case - and closer to home in the Cornell 7 case - it very well may be.