Thiago Brennand: businessman is convicted of forcing his ex-girlfriend to tattoo initials of his name

The report contacted Thiago Brennand's defense and is awaiting a response.

Understand the case

The episode that resulted in Brennand's new conviction took place in August 2021. The woman lived in the United States and traveled to see her parents in Recife (PE). The businessman invited her to visit him and picked her up at the airport in São Paulo. He took her to the condominium, in Porto Feliz, and what followed were three days of what, in her statement, she called "horror".

She was allegedly forced to have sex without a condom and was attacked for refusing. Then, a tattoo artist entered the room and Brennand allegedly ordered her to be tattooed with the initials TBV so that she would be "marked as his property." The woman underwent forensic examinations and images of the tattoo were added to the investigation.

After the victim reported the businessman, he released intimate videos of her to force her to withdraw the complaint. The case was archived in Porto Feliz, but was reopened after new complaints from women against Brennand emerged.

According to the Public Ministry's complaint, the businessman committed the crime of rape five times, in addition to false imprisonment, torture and serious bodily harm due to the forced tattoo on the victim.

The prosecution also pointed out illegal harassment carried out three times, threats (four times) and coercion during the process to force the victim to withdraw the complaint. It also added the unauthorized recording of sexual intimacy and disclosure of rape or sex scenes (eight times).

The decision

The complaints were partially accepted by the judge in the case. Brennand was convicted of the crimes of unauthorized recording of an intimate sexual act, illegal constraint in part of the facts, two crimes of rape, bodily harm, coercion during the process and one crime of disclosing a rape scene.

The crime of bodily harm is related to the fact that the woman was forced to get a tattoo with Brennand's initials, a procedure that caused pain and left marks that were difficult to reversible on the skin.

The businessman was acquitted of part of the accusations of rape, threats, accusations of aggression and the accusation of torture. The man who allegedly contributed to the woman's false imprisonment, and who was also a defendant in the case, ended up acquitted.

As a result, the defendant was sentenced to 31 years, 5 months and 24 days in prison. He was also sentenced to 2 years, 4 months and 18 days of open detention. The judge maintained Brennand's preventive detention, who is already serving a sentence for other convictions at the Potim Penitentiary, in the interior of São Paulo.

Other cases

The conviction comes days after Brennand was acquitted by the 2nd Chamber of Criminal Law of the São Paulo Court of Justice of another charge of rape. He had been sentenced by the 30th Criminal Court of São Paulo to 8 years in prison in August 2025 for taking a student who was feeling ill after dinner to a hotel and raping her, but the TJ reversed the conviction.

The victim's defense appealed to the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) in an attempt to maintain the conviction.

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