Mia Latter Waives Anonymity, Alleges Russell Brand Raped Her at 16
Mia Latter, now 37, has waived her legal right to anonymity and publicly accused Russell Brand of raping her when she was 16 and he was 30. She was previously identified under the pseudonym “Alice” in a 2023 investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4’s Dispatches.
Latter said she met Brand in Leicester Square in central London in 2006 while on her way home from a shopping trip. Brand, who was working at MTV at the time, approached her in the street and asked for her number. She said he still asked her to meet after she told him her age.
She alleged that Brand orally raped her towards the end of their three-month relationship. “He ended up forcing me against the headboard [of the bed] and I couldn’t move, and he orally raped me — and I was choking and crying,” she told The Sunday Times. She said she hit him in the stomach to get him off, and that he said: “I just wanted to see your mascara run.”
Brand denied the allegations when they were first reported in 2023. He was convicted at London’s Southwark Crown Court of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women, and was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison. None of the women in the 2023 media investigation were complainants in Brand’s criminal trial.
Latter said she spoke to the police after the documentary, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to include her case in Brand’s trial. She said she would not continue with the criminal process so she could focus on her campaign.
