Comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse in a Sunday Times and Dispatches investigation – allegations he denies.
Four girls have made allegations of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013 whereas he was on the top of his fame, in keeping with the newspaper.
The Sunday Times studies that others have made a variety of accusations about Brand’s controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.
In an in a single day video put out on YouTube Brand denied “very serious criminal allegations” that he claims can be made in opposition to him by a newspaper and TV firm.
In a video posted on YouTube and X, previously referred to as Twitter, entitled “So, This is Happening”, the comic denied the allegations that he described as “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks”.
The 48-year-old mentioned he had acquired “two extremely disturbing letters… and an email” – “one from a mainstream TV company, one from a newspaper”.
He mentioned he “absolutely refutes” the allegations that “pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream”.
“As I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous,” he mentioned within the clip.
“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’m being transparent about it now as well.”
One of accusers solely 16
One of his accusers claims she was 16 once they started a relationship, having met one another whereas procuring in central London.
Another girl claims to have been raped by Brand at his Los Angeles dwelling.
The newspaper particulars claims she was handled at a rape disaster centre on the identical day and despatched him a textual content afterwards saying: “When a girl say[s] NO it means no.”
A 3rd girl alleges he sexually assaulted her at his West Hollywood dwelling after the pair met at Alcoholics Anonymous.
The fourth accuser claims to have been bodily and emotionally abused by him.
Female comedians ‘warning one another about him for a few years’
A feminine comic, who has not been named, additionally recollects being “grabbed” and “bitten” within the face by Brand once they gigged collectively within the early 2000s.
She likens his behaviour at events to the character within the 1987 movie Predator.
A comic the Sunday Times spoke to says Brand’s title was often circulated in on-line teams of feminine comics.
“I know for many, many years that women have been warning each other about Russell,” he instructed the paper.
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