United Kingdom, March 30 -- Russell Brand's rape trial has been postponed until October.

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star had been due in court on 16 June after he was charged in April 2025 with two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, in relation to alleged offences involving four women between 1999 and 2005, but after fresh charges were brought in January, one count of rape and one of sexual assault against two women in 2009, the matter has now been postponed.

Brand - who has denied the allegations against him - will now go on trial for all seven charges at Southwark Crown Court from 12 October, with the matter expected to last two months.

The trial had initially been scheduled for up to f...