Russell Brand sentenced to over 10 years for rape and sex assault
Disgraced British television personality and Hollywood actor Russell Brand has been sentenced to prison for raping a woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three others.
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Disgraced British television personality and Hollywood actor Russell Brand has been sentenced to prison for raping a woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three others.
The San Francisco Police Department is facing renewed scrutiny over its handling of sexual assault cases, after data showed the department solved just 14% of rape cases last year.
Sexual assaults are reported thousands of times a year on the biggest university campuses in the U.S., data shows. Experts say the data undercounts the number of incidents.
A man was charged on Wednesday in connection with the rape of an unconscious woman in San Francisco last month, authorities said.
A woman, identified only as Jane Doe, alleges she was gang-raped by seven fraternity members in 2024 and accuses Cornell University of failing to protect her.
According to the record, a student who had been at the Chi Phi house the night of the alleged assault told a Title IX investigator she got a call the next day from one of the accused men.
A masseuse in the North Bay was arrested following the alleged sexual assaults of two customers at a massage parlor over the weekend, authorities said.
A San Francisco judge sentenced a man to multiple life sentences after he was found guilty of violent sexual assaults and kidnappings while posing as a rideshare driver, prosecutors said.
A woman was sexually assaulted in her home by an intruder last week and a suspect was later arrested, authorities said on Monday.
A San Francisco jury convicted a man for sexually assaulting a woman aboard a Muni bus last year, the District Attorney's Office said.
Four women say Hollywood star Jared Leto committed sexual crimes against them when they were teenagers, in interviews with the BBC.
A serial killer convicted or linked to the sexual assault murders of three women in three states was charged in a 1992 cold case murder and rape in San Francisco, the District Attorney's Office said on Wednesday.
A man was charged with attempted rape and other charges after his arrest in connection with a sexual assault of a woman at her Berkeley apartment building last week.
A former officer for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was convicted of child sex crimes in Napa involving three family members after an eight-day trial, prosecutors announced Thursday.
A man who police dubbed the "Rideshare Rapist" for posing as a ride-hailing driver outside San Francisco nightclubs and preying on women who mistook him for their driver was convicted of multiple rapes, the district attorney announced Friday.
A man who San Francisco police called the "Rideshare Rapist" was convicted of multiple rapes between 2013 and 2018 of women leaving nightclubs and getting into his vehicle, thinking he was their driver.
A man accused in a 1989 cold case involving the rape and stabbing of a woman in her San Mateo home pleaded no contest to the charges and now faces life in prison, authorities said.
Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday.
British actor and comedian Russell Brand has been charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault, London police said.
French cinema icon Gérard Depardieu stands accused of sexually assaulting two women during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) in Paris.
A man was arrested as the suspect in a 2009 rape cold case in Sunnyvale, police announced Thursday.
Four British women who've accused Andrew Tate of rape are "in disbelief and feel retraumatized by the news" that he's been allowed to leave Romania for the U.S.
The cold case murder of a Berkeley woman in Tilden Regional Park has been solved using advanced DNA techniques, authorities announced Wednesday.
Police announced Wednesday that the suspect in the rape and murder of 32-year-old Maria Weidhofer in Tilden Regional Park in 1990 has been identified using advanced DNA techniques.
A judge has granted the release of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after his 2020 rape conviction was vacated by a California appeals court last December.
