Russell Brand, known for his roles in Without Sarah and Rock Forever, is accused of “rape, sexual abuse and psychological abuse,” according to a joint investigation by the Sunday Times of London and a Channel 4 documentary team. Dispatchers.
The news was reported on Saturday afternoon by the Sunday Times (via Variety ), while Dispatchers A 90-minute documentary on the allegations aired that evening. “Five women, four of whom asked to remain anonymous, agreed to share their stories of serious sexual allegations on the show“- said the representative of the program.
According to the Sunday Times, the events took place between 2006 and 2013.
Detailed bill
This was reported by the first alleged victim Russell Brand She was attacked when she was just 16 (she was in her 30s at the time) during a three-month “emotionally and sexually abusive” relationship, which included an incident where he “forced his penis down her throat”, causing her to choke. He also said he removed the condom during sex without her knowledge, called her “baby” and asked her to read excerpts from a Vladimir Nabokov novel. Lolita, while being together. The young woman, nicknamed Alice by the Sunday Times, who was over the legal age in the UK, also said she was sending a car to pick her up from school and take her home.
Another alleged victim told the publication that she was raped by the comedian at his Los Angeles home in 2012, while a third who worked with him said he raped her. sexually assaulted her at their West Hollywood home in 2013 and threatened legal action. If he spoke publicly about what happened.
Other allegations detailed in the report also include a 24-year-old female assistant claiming that Russell Brand exposed her when he entered her dressing room and “showed that he could perform oral sex on her”.
The actor’s former personal assistant, Helen Berger, also spoke out, saying she saw Brandi showing friends “intimate photos of women”. One comedian said he repeatedly “bit his face” every time he saw him, while another comedian confirmed he knew his female colleagues had been “wary of Russell” for years.
His agency misled him, abandoned him
Amid this media storm, the Tavistock Wood agency, which also represents Lily James and Dominic West, has ended all ties. Russell Brand They were confronted with these allegations by the press this week.
However, Tavistock Wood co-founder Angrad Wood was made aware of the allegations by Alice, a young woman who was 16 at the time, three years ago. The latter actually claimed to have contacted him in 2020 and reported his experience, demanding an apology. Instead, she allegedly received an “aggressive” message from a lawyer suggesting she was seeking compensation for her alleged experience, a response the young woman described as insulting.
In a statement, Tavistock Wood told Deadline:Russell Brand strongly and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, but we now believe he has been terribly misled. TW has severed all professional ties to the brand.“
Russell Brand denies the allegations
Russell BrandThe singer, who has broken away from mainstream media and entertainment in recent years to reinvent herself as a ‘wellness guru’, was actually scheduled to perform on stage at Wembley on Saturday night: which she did, even receiving a standing ovation, according to the video released. by MailOnline, after the allegations were made public.
A day earlier, he had preemptively denied the allegations in a YouTube video titled “So it happens“. In the video, he states that “Absolutely denies“there”A litany of striking, rather baroque attacks” and talks about the campaign he is coordinating ”mainstream media to silence him.”
“These allegations relate to the time I worked in the mainstream media, when I was in newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies. And because I wrote a lot in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. However, during this promiscuous period, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about it then—almost too transparent—and still am.“
Brand reportedly told the Wembley crowd, who appeared to be rooting for him despite everything:I love you. I love you. thanks. There are some things I can’t talk about and I hope you understand that I will give you everything I have.“
A controversial career
Russell Brand He faced many obstacles during his career. In his autobiographical work, he described how he was fired from his job as a presenter at MTV UK after coming to work dressed as Osama bin Laden and bringing his drug dealer to the studio after 9/11. He also wrote extensively about drug use and sex life.
In 2002, she was fired from British radio station Xfm for reading pornographic material on air, and in 2008 she was fired and then resigned from her BBC Radio 2 show after leaving a voicemail for actor Andrew Sachs, alleging that she had had a sexual relationship with Sachs. grandson.
After debuting as host, Russell Brand Became famous in 2008 for the role of Sarah’s new friend in the comedy Nothing works without Sara!, in which he stars alongside Kristen Bell, Jason Segel and Paul Rudd. We can see him in movies like American Trip (2010) opposite Jonah Hill and Elisabeth Moss or even Rock forever (2012), also starring Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin. In 2022, he starred in “Death on the Nile” by and with Kenneth Branagh, also with Tom Bateman, Annette Bening and Gal Gadot.
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