Jemima Khan is having ‘best sex ever’ with Russell Brand
What beauty has told pals
HE is a foul-mouthed, sex-addicted, ex-junkie comic whose outrageous stunts have made him a scourge of the Establishment.
She is the privileged daughter of one of the richest and most influential families in Britain, a friend of the royals and the mother of two teenage sons.
So it is no wonder that Russell Brand’s new love affair with Jemima Khan has sent her family and friends into meltdown.
The couple — who were first introduced by Russell’s ex-lover Kate Moss seven years ago — got together after reconnecting at a charity party in London in June.
And Jemima, who was once married to Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, is so besotted with Russell that she has told friends she wants to be with him for the rest of her LIFE.
She has just flown to New York so they can be together and a source close to her said: “He is absolutely wrong on every level but she looks like a little girl giddy with love.”
Jemima was born into privilege. Her father was the late billionaire tycoon Sir James Goldsmith, while her mother, Lady Annabel, is the daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry. Her brother, Zac, is a Tory MP.
In contrast, Russell was born to an Essex photographer and his parents divorced when he was a baby.
The source added: “Jemima’s mother must be deeply worried, and her ex-husband is surely horrified. This is a guy whose bed post is riddled with notches and who has no qualms about telling the world intimate secrets about his girlfriends.
“Annabel totally gets that he’s charismatic and sexy but she fears he is also dangerous and could really break her heart.
“All she knew about Russell Brand was that dreadful incident involving Jonathan Ross and the phone call to Andrew Sachs.
“Then he was thrown out of the GQ Awards because he said their sponsors Hugo Boss made clothes for the Nazis. While Jemima thought that was terrific, most of her family and friends felt it was all very awkward and uncalled for.”
Russell, 38, was nicknamed “Rasputin” by his ex-wife, pop star Katy Perry, when their marriage ended last year after less than two years.
He asked 39-year-old Jemima out on a date after a phone call about the Hoping Foundation, a charity to help Palestinian refugees, in which they were both involved.
The pair had first met in 2006, when Topshop mogul Sir Philip Green paid £60,000 to watch Kate Moss kiss Jemima to raise funds for the charity. Kate — who briefly dated Russell herself that same year — introduced them but Jemima was then dating actor Hugh Grant. The pair stayed in touch through the charity and in June this year they met at the Hoping Foundation Rock On party in London.
Our source said: “Russell was actually with another woman but he and Jemima chatted for a while and arranged to talk about the charity.
“He called her and they spent about an hour on the phone. Jemima really liked the fact that he wasn’t impressed by her name or her connections, and that he was making jokes and just treating her like a normal girl.
“They went on a date within days and she was completely hooked. Russell is amazingly clever and charming. She thinks he is an extraordinary modern-day hero.
“He’s tried to get her to convert to Buddhism and wants to take her to India. They talk about doing loads of amazing charity things for different countries.
“He is completely open about his former heroin addiction, all the women he’s slept with — he’s even given her his memoir, My Booky Wook, so she can know everything about him.
“She’s never met anyone remotely like him and he makes her feel incredible.
She’s also never met anyone who is so adventurous in bed. She can’t get enough of him. She just says he ticks every box.
“Her mother is trying not to let her panic show because she doesn’t want to push her further into his arms. She’s being as pleasant as possible, but any mum would be terrified at the thought of Russell Brand squiring their precious daughter.
“Her friends are worried. It’s nothing to do with the fact that he comes from Essex, it’s more to do with what he says about people he knows and that he’s slept with so many people.
“Russell Brand is all about ripping down the Establishment. He had a go at Boris Johnson, who is close to a lot of their friends, and his behaviour has been too disgraceful even for the BBC.
“Jemima is part of the Establishment. She has a brother who is a politician, a father who was hugely influential. It’s just unbelievable.”
Russell has been invited to Annabel Goldsmith’s family home in Petersham, near Richmond in Surrey. It is the house which Princess Diana — a close friend — regularly used as a retreat and the home where her brother, Zac, is a frequent visitor, as are Jemima’s sons, Sulaiman, 16, and 14-year-old Kasim.
The encounter seems an intriguing prospect. In recent months Russell’s revelation of how he had to imagine being with other women when he had sex with Katy Perry, and his jibes about their lavish wedding in India, caused outrage among women — including Katy herself.
She said: “He’s hysterical in some ways, until he started making jokes about me and he didn’t know I was in the audience, because I’d come to surprise him at one of his shows.”
A friend of Katy’s said: “She fell for Russell in exactly the same way as Jemima.
“He was so clever, so charming, so unawed by her fame and seemed so incredibly spiritual and deep.
“She wanted to be with him for ever. Then she discovered that underneath all of it, Russell is exactly the guy he writes about in his book, who is never satisfied, who doesn’t want to commit, who ultimately has very little true respect for women.
“Any girl who falls for him should be very careful.”
According to Jemima’s friends, it is the fact that Russell presents a challenge that is a huge thrill for her.
Our source said: “She is determined she can be the one to be with Russell for ever and change him. But Russell isn’t going to be changed by anyone.
“He’s a total maverick and a law unto himself. She hasn’t even met his friends yet. She needs to talk to Katy Perry.”
Russell Brand
RUSSELL married Katy Perry on October 23, 2010. He filed for divorce on December 30, 2011, and it became final in July 2012.
Lovers
Kate Moss
Makosi Musambasi (Big Brother contestant)
Becki Seddiki (Big Brother contestant)
Kate Lawler
Georgina Baillie (granddaughter of Andrew Sachs)
Teresa Palmer (Australian actress)
Sadie Frost
Courtney Love
Imogen Thomas
Isabella Brewster
Geri Halliwell
Laura Gallacher
Holly Madison (Playboy bunny)
Lauren Harries (denied by Brand)
Oriela Medellin Amieiro (artist)
Coralie Robinson (Big Brother contestant)
Cassie Sumner
Phoebe Price
Anouska de Georgiou
Maeve Reilly
Aimee Levoir
Trina Venit
Jemima Khan
JEMIMA married Imran Khan on May 16, 1995. On June 22, 2004, it was announced that they had divorced.
Lovers
Hugh Grant
John Battsek (film producer)
Luke Janklow (literary agent)
Guy Ritchie
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