Make Page Six a Preferred Source Elon Musk defended Russell Brand’s “unjust” sentencing — before a Southwark Crown Court judge even delivered the disgraced comedian’s punishment.
The Tesla CEO, 55, retweeted a graphic Monday that listed out Brand’s crimes alongside those of another convicted rapist, Sajid Mahmood Khan.
The social media upload noted that Khan received just a three-year sentence in January 2025 for his offenses, which included grooming a 13-year-old girl, while claiming that Brand faces “potential life in jail,” despite the prosecution in the case calling for a maximum sentence of 10 to 15 years for the comedian.
In response to the post, Musk wrote via X that it was “Unjust.”
While Brand has not yet been sentenced, experts say that the actor will likely face many years behind bars, particularly after the judge in the case, Mr Justice Joel Bennathan, warned that he believes his sentence will be “significant.”
However, Page Six reported last week that Brand will likely only be behind bars for “eight or nine years,” per Kally Sahota, an attorney and director of Sahota & Sahota Solicitors.
The lawyer added that she would not expect the actor to receive a life sentence despite it being legally possible in England and Wales.
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The “Get Him to the Greek” star was found guilty on Thursday, Nov. 5 of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault against four different women, with the incidents occurring between 2004 and 2009 — and officials are investigating two additional rape accusations.
The judge promised Brand a “significant” prison sentence while delivering his guilty verdict.
Brand was remanded into custody at the time, with his wife, Laura Gallacher, leaving the London courtroom solo.
Gallacher, 39, was present in court on Monday morning as her husband’s sentencing hearing kicked off.
When Brand arrived, he mouthed to her, “Are you OK?”
The couple have been married since August 2017 and share three children — Mabel, 10, Peggy, 8, and a son, born in 2023.
Before Brand’s trial kicked off in October, the duo discussed their fears of him going to prison on their “Sunday Service with the Brands” podcast.
When Gallacher said, “You will get through it. The presence of God is everywhere — in prison as well,” Brand replied, “I don’t like things where it’s like, you might have to go to prison.”
His partner pointed out, “That’s the nature of what a trial is.”
Since his conviction, Brand has been in London’s HMP Wandsworth, a facility reportedly plagued by overcrowding, vermin and violence.
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