Russell Brand has been ordered to pay more than £3,400 after he admitted two speeding offences in the space of three months.
The comedian and actor, 49, broke a 30mph limit on a stretch of road in Oxfordshire and was caught driving at 95mph on the M4 motorway.
At High Wycombe magistrates court on Thursday, Brand pleaded guilty through his lawyer to two charges of speeding.
He hired the firm of Nick ‘Mr Loophole’ Freeman to represent him in the legal proceedings and was not present for the brief court hearing.
Two further charges, of allegedly failing to respond to letters about the speeding offences, were dropped by Thames Valley Police.
Brand was issued with fines totaling £2341, he was ordered to pay costs of £180, and must also stump up £936 in victim surcharges.
He was handed eight points for his driving licence, adding to the three points he already has for a 2022 speeding offence. This means he now has 11 points on his licence, one short of 12 when an automatic ban would be considered.
Separately, Brand is under investigation by the Metropolitan Police over allegations of sex crimes made against him by multiple women.
A file on the complaints has been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service to determine if he should face charges.
The Standard first reported the driving offences case in November last year, when prosecutions were brought through the Single Justice Procedure.
He was initially charged with two allegations of speeding and two counts of failing to tell police if he or someone else had been driving the car.
At the height of his fame, Brand was a star of Hollywood films, a Radio 2 host, and a sought-after stand-up comedian and TV presenter.
But a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches revealed last year that four women had accused Brand of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013.
Brand denies all the claims, saying all his sexual relationships were “absolutely always consensual”.
And in a video statement posted online, he says he faces “litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks”.
“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” he said.
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies and as I have written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous.”
He continued: “Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.
“I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I am being transparent about it now as well.
“To see that transparency metastasised into something criminal, that I absolutely deny, makes me question: is there another agenda at play?”
Brand, the former Big Brother host, has converted himself in recent years from mainstream celebrity to online conspiracy theorist and influencer, with millions of followers on YouTube.
He made an appearance at the Republican National Convention to support Donald Trump in the summer.
At court on Thursday, Brand admitted being the driver of a Mini caught out on a speed camera on March 23, at 37mph in a 30mph zone in Shiplake, near to his Oxfordshire home.
The second offence happened on the eastbound M4 on June 16, when he was driving at 95mph.
The dropped charges alleged that Brand was written to at his £3.7 million thatched retreat in Henley-on-Thames in April and a reminder letter was also dispatched, but there was no response.
Brand was given 28 days to settle the court fines and fees.
