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Many years ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to an evening at Jemima Goldsmith's country house in the Cotswolds.

Published: 01:00 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 07:34 GMT, 11 November 2026

Many years ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to an evening at Jemima Goldsmith’s country house in the Cotswolds.

Everything was effortlessly elegant: roaring fires, big floppy dogs on the sofa, stylish furnishings, fantastic company.

She was the epitome of the high society hostess: witty, totally at ease and fabulous in every way.

That’s why, when I heard shortly afterwards that she was dating Russell Brand, I was completely baffled.

Why on earth would someone as classy as Goldsmith even entertain a loathsome little low-rent toad like that? It just seemed inconceivable to me. I think I even wrote that in one of my columns: needless to say, I was not invited back.

Now, over a decade on from that ill-fated romance, Goldsmith has shared shocking details of her relationship with the convicted sex offender, who last week was found guilty on one count of rape and three of sexual assault, and sentenced on Monday to more than 10 years in jail.

Over a decade on from her romance with Russell Brand, Jemima Goldsmith has shared shocking details of her relationship with the convicted sex offender

Goldsmith has done well to quell online speculation over a harassment order which she and Brand took out jointly in September 2014 against massage therapist Szilvia Berki; but she makes no defence of her ex-lover. ‘I am going to describe some painful and personal things in relation to Russell Brand,’ she wrote on X on Monday.

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