Editor’s note: This story contains details of alleged sexual offenses that some readers may find distressing. The 2023 Channel 4 documentary about Russell Brand “poisoned the well of justice deliberately” and “fundamentally corrupted” his accusers, according to the closing defense argument of Brand’s lawyer. Ian Winter leaned on a phrase, coined by a mid-19th century […]
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