Russell Brand facing significant prison term for rape and sexual assaults

LONDON (AP) — Russell Brand faces a reckoning Monday for sexual abuse that occurred just offstage from a public life built around boasts of his erotic exploits.Brand, 51, faces a significant prison term after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.The British actor-comedian known for outrageous stand-up routines and battles with drugs and alcohol asserted that he was innocent and all his encounters were consensual.But a jury of eight men and four women did not buy his defense and found him guilty of attacking four of six accusers on allegations dating back to 2004. He was cleared of two counts of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault.Brand was partly damned by his own words about his obsession with sex and his well-documented life of promiscuity.Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones called Brand a ruthless, calculating, manipulative “sexual predator” who treated women as a “disposable commodity.”She quoted from his 2007 memoir “My Booky Wook” to illus