Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual assaults
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ctor and comic Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse throughout a seven-year interval on the peak of his fame.
Four girls have alleged sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, whereas he was a presenter for BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4 after which as an actor within the US.
Others have made a spread of accusations about Brand’s controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.
The allegations had been made as a part of a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
Brand denied the allegations and stated his relationships have all been consensual.
One lady alleges that Brand raped her towards a wall in his Los Angeles residence.
She was handled at a rape disaster centre on the identical day, in keeping with medical data gathered as a part of the investigation.
A second lady alleges that Brand assaulted her when he was 31 and she or he was 16 and nonetheless at college.
She stated he referred to her as “the child” throughout an emotionally abusive and controlling relationship that lasted for about three months, and that Brand as soon as “forced his penis down her throat”, making her choke.
A 3rd lady claims that he sexually assaulted her whereas she labored with him in Los Angeles, and that he threatened to take authorized motion if she informed anybody else about her allegation.
The fourth described being sexually assaulted by Brand who was bodily and emotionally abusive in the direction of her.
In a video to his 6.5 million subscribers Brand refuted the allegations.
He stated: “Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.
“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.”
Russell’s PR agency MBC PR and expertise agent Tavistock Wood have been approached remark.