LONDON (AP) — Russell Brand faces a reckoning Monday for sexual abuse that occurred just offstage from a public life built around boasts of his erotic exploits.

Brand, 51, faces a significant prison term after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.

The British actor-comedian known for outrageous stand-up routines and battles with drugs and alcohol asserted that he was innocent and all his encounters were consensual.

But a jury of eight men and four women did not buy his defense and found him guilty of ...