Inside Russell Brand's grim and startlingly inappropriate relationship with his own lothario father that sparked his obsessive need for sex

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This week, Ronald Brand sparked fury outside court when he ranted to the media that his predator son Russell was the real 'victim', not the women the disgraced star had violated.

Published: 12:10 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 13:05 GMT, 11 November 2026

He is the womanising, wheeler-dealing ‘Del Boy’ who paid for a prostitute to take his teenage son’s virginity during a sordid trip to the Far East.

And this week, Ronald Brand sparked fury outside court when he ranted to the media that his predator son Russell was the real ‘victim’, not the women the disgraced star had violated.

Shortly after Brand was jailed for ten and a half years for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others, the 82-year-old even accused his son’s victims of having ‘chased’ and ‘harassed’ the ex-comedian.

Yet Ron’s bizarre outburst was typical for a man whose unconventional upbringing of his now-jailed son, 51, would have provided Sigmund Freud with enough material for a lifetime.

In his two best-selling autobiographies, Russell wrote extensively of Ron, a flamboyant Romford market trader and lothario, describing him as an ‘Essex Cavalier’ for whom ‘every week [brought] a different woman and a new scheme for riches’.

The impressionable young Russell aspired to emulate his father by pursuing sex and money with gusto – along with only rarely bestowed paternal approval.

Ron, who grew up on a council estate in Dagenham, had himself endured a difficult childhood, losing his own father when he was just seven.

He married Brand’s mother Barbara in 1969 – but the marriage collapsed when their son was just six months old. And while Barbara became a ‘doting’ single mother, Ron was a ‘sporadic presence’, turning up for what Russell, in his characteristically woolly prose, called ‘cyclonic visits’.

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