Make Page Six a Preferred Source Convicted rapist Russell Brand’s ex Jordan Martin made a bombshell claim about why the comedian married Katy Perry in 2010.
In the new Netflix documentary, “Russell Brand: Open Secret,” Martin claimed that Brand, who was recently sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for rape and sexual assault, had “always wanted” to marry someone who was famous.
“He’s doing exactly what he always wanted to do and be married to someone famous, which he always said he would be,” Martin alleged in the documentary.
Perry and Brand met in 2008, while they were filming the movie, “Get Him to the Greek.” They married in 2010 in India, but separated a year later. Their divorce was finalized in 2012.
Before Brand met Perry, he dated Martin in 2007. During that time, Martin claimed that the actor asked her to meet him in Hawaii, where he was filming “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” because “he wanted someone there to stop him from ‘trying it on’ with people on set.”
“He said to me I should be dating somebody more famous than you,” Martin alleged.
In the documentary, she also alleged that Brand said that she was “dressing like an attention-seeking tart” during the trip to Hawaii, and that he “didn’t feel comfortable” with her sunbathing.
Page Six reached out to a rep for Brand for comment.
The new Netflix doc also features testimonies from anonymous industry figures, as well as Brand’s old roommates and other journalists.
Currently, Brand is being held at HMP Wandsworth in South London. On Thursday, he was accused of sexual misconduct by six more women.
In 2013, off the heels of her divorce, Perry claimed that her ex, Brand, was “controlling.”
“He didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour,” Perry, 42, previously told Vogue in a 2013 interview.
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She labeled their dynamic together as “really hurtful,” adding, “It was very controlling, which was upsetting.”
“At first when I met him he wanted an equal, and I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they’re like, I can’t handle the equalness,” the “California Gurls” hitmaker said at the time.
She also shared that she “felt a lot of responsibility” for the end of the romance until she “found out the real truth.”
“I can’t necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day. I let go and I was like: ‘This isn’t because of me; this is beyond me.’ So I have moved on from that,” Perry said.
Just one year after they married, Brand texted Perry to let her know that he was dumping her and planned to file for divorce.
“Let’s just say I haven’t heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011,” she told Vogue in 2013.
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