Figure caption, Brand found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault
Russell Brand has been convicted of rape and sexual assault, and is now expected to face a substantial prison sentence.
A jury found the entertainer guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, following a four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court in London.
He was found not guilty of two other counts of rape, and one count of attempted indecent assault. The jury deliberated for eight-and-a-half hours.
The 51-year-old was refused bail and will spend the weekend in custody before he is due to return to the same court on Monday for sentencing.
It can now be reported that Brand is also facing further rape allegations made by two women and has already been questioned by officers in relation to the complaints. The Metropolitan Police said its investigation "remains ongoing".
During the trial, Brand faced allegations from six women spanning the decade between 1999 and 2009, when he rose to fame as one of Britain's most high-profile entertainers.
The women came to court to reveal how Brand used his immense fame to force them into sexual activity.
Brand, who told his wife Laura Brand "I love you" after entering the dock, displayed no emotion as the jury delivered its verdicts.
Afterwards he mouthed "I'm good, I'm good" to his defence counsel as he left the dock. His walk was steadily paced, and he continued to show little emotion.
The judge, Mr Justice Bennathan, told Brand to expect "a significant custodial term" after the verdicts were delivered.
Image source, Press Association Image caption, Brand was denied bail and taken into custody after the verdicts, with sentencing due on Monday
The jury found Brand guilty of raping a fan after meeting her at a 2009 stand-up show at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Brand was found guilty of groping an MTV worker during a party at a Soho bar in 2004, but not guilty of going on to rape her in a toilet.
He was convicted of kissing and groping a Choice FM worker after encountering her in a corridor at the Capital Radio building in 2004 or 2005.
Brand was also convicted by the jury of sexually assaulting a Channel 4 worker in 2009 when she had been forced to give him a massage.
Brand was found not guilty by the jury of raping a woman he met at a cabaret show on the fringes of the 1999 Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.
He was also cleared of trying to drag an MTV worker in to a toilet to indecently assault her in 2001.
Image source, Press Association Image caption, Brand was pictured arriving at court on Thursday with his wife Laura Brand before the verdicts were delivered
Image source, Press Association Image caption, Brand was taken into custody following the verdicts and Laura Brand left court shortly afterwards
Brand had claimed to be the victim of a media conspiracy to paint him as a sexual predator and insisted in court that consent was "more important than sex itself".
But he faced the compelling evidence of six women who accused him of crimes over the course of a decade.
Brand was also confronted with his own words from his 2007 book in which he claimed sex was a "birthright" and friends who revealed his relentless pursuit of sleeping with 5,000 women.
Mr Justice Bennathan ruled that Brand must be remanded into custody until sentencing on Monday, when he is expected to receive a lengthy prison sentence.
The judge said "I regret the hardship caused to the chi…