London: Russell Brand has accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages over a newspaper claim that he had cheated on girlfriend Jemima Khan. Brand was not at London’s High Court for the settlement of his action against News Group Newspapers over a November 2013 story in The Sun on Sunday. His solicitor, John Kelly, told Mr Justice Tugendhat that the allegation that he had deceived the public as well as Ms Khan by falsely proclaiming that he was being faithful to her when in fact he was having romance with model Sophie Coady during a four-month fling was entirely without foundation and damaging’.–BFT