WATCH: Judge sentences Russell Brand to 10 1/2 years in prison

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Some breaking news and an update for everyone who's been following it.
His name is Russell Brand.
If you remember him,
he is a Hollywood star who was once married to Katy Perry.
He's been sentenced now to 10 years in prison.
We just got that information because a London jury convicted Brand
of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.
The judge called him a sexual predator.
And said his fame had protected him for all those years.
Some of those crimes date back to 2004, 2009.
That's when the incidents were said to have taken place.
We actually got a piece of sound from the judge.
It just happened.
So let's go ahead and play that.
Again, this is Russell Brand, Hollywood star, comedian,
who has now been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison.
Here we go.
I pass a sentence of imprisonment for nine months for count three,
18 months for count five, reduced from two years to allow for totality,
and eight months for count seven.
Those sentences are all concurrent to one another
to further allow for totality but consecutive to the sentence for rape.
The sentence I pass on count six, rape, is nine years imprisonment.
So the total sentence is one of 10 years, 6 months.
The few days you have already served will count.
You will serve two-thirds of that sentence,
then be released on licence
and will be liable to be recalled into custody
if you breach its terms.
On your release, you will also be indefinitely subject
to the notification requirements
under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Would you go with the officers, please?
So if you remember, Brand first became known
as a British stand-up comedian, television and radio host,
starred in movies like Forgetting Sarah Marshall,
Get Him to the Greek, he married Katy Perry in 2010.
But they separated the following year, divorced in 2012.
Those convictions involved four women
and incidents between 2004 and 2009.
He was acquitted of two other rape charges
and one charge of attempted indecent assault.
And again, sentenced this morning to 10 years and six months in prison.
You heard it just there, happening live this morning.
