Russell Brand arrived at the Westminster magistrate court in London to face accusations of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault.
The broadcaster, actor and actor faces an allegation of rape, an allegation of indecent assault, one of oral rape and two other chiefs of sexual assault, concerning four distinct women.
The photographers surrounded his car on arrival and he did not speak the journalists gathered in front of the courtyard building.
Surrounded by cameras and microphones, it took him more than two minutes to travel the short distance to the court door, missing from photographers blocks, flanked by police.