Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual abuse

Russell Brand was accused of rape, sexual assault and psychological abuse over a seven-year period and at the height of his fame.

The allegations from four women – including one who claimed she was just 16 when she was “groomed” by the comedian – emerged as part of an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches and the Sunday Times.

Brand, 48, who is in the middle of a UK tour, has vehemently denied the “very, very serious criminal allegations”, insisting all of his sexual encounters were consensual.

On Saturday, senior Conservative MPs responded to the allegations by emphasizing the duty of public service broadcasters to investigate the claims.

Just hours before the allegations were made public, Brand posted a video on YouTube saying he had received “two extremely disturbing letters” from journalists detailing “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.”

In his outspoken statement, he claimed the “astonishing” and “rather baroque” attacks had left him feeling “attacked” by the “mainstream media” who had a “serious and concerted agenda to silence him “.

The allegations refer to a period between 2006 and 2013, when Brand worked as a presenter for BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4, and also secured leading roles in Hollywood films.

Woman claims relationship started at age 16

One woman claimed she began a relationship with the comedian when she was a 16-year-old schoolgirl and he was 31.

The woman, who has not been named, said she had a three-month relationship with Brand, who was a BBC radio presenter at the time. She claimed he called her “the child.”

She also said he approached her in London in 2006 while she was recovering from an eating disorder and that her mother had been upset by her relationship with Brand, insisting that her daughter send him a message indicating his age.

However, she told the Sunday Times that she persisted in the relationship and that he was “very charming and very attentive”, but that he became fascinated by her virginity, before they eventually had sex. sexual.

Even though she was over the legal age of consent, she said she felt like he was “grooming” her and alleges he became controlling. She claimed she had to “hit him really hard in the stomach to make him cum” during sex.

The relationship ended when she found him in bed with another woman, she said.

“I think he was very skillful early on in defining his identity: ‘I’m a womanizer.’ I’m addicted to sex. “I’m inappropriate but it’s just a joke, it’s funny,” she told the newspaper. “It’s a smokescreen to hide his dark behavior,” she claimed.

In his statement, Brand admitted he had had casual relationships, but said “the relationships were absolutely, always consensual.”

The brand “categorically denies” these claims

He added: “I was always transparent about this then, almost too transparent, and I am also now, and to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal, which I absolutely deny, makes me wonder. ask: is there another agenda at play?

The investigation also includes the account of a businesswoman, named only as Nadia, who claims Brand raped her against a wall in his Los Angeles home during a consensual relationship in 2012.

She said she found his “glazed look” disturbing, leaving her unsure “what was going on in his head”.

She allegedly claimed that when she declined his suggestion to join a “friend in the room,” he forced himself on her as she repeatedly told him, “Get down.”

In a text message that the Sunday Times claims to have authenticated, the woman, aged in her 30s, told him: “When a girl says NO, it means no.” Brand reportedly responded, “I’m so sorry.”

She told Dispatches she was “completely disgusted” by the way she claims he treated her.

Another woman, named only as Phoebe and aged in her 20s, said she had a brief consensual relationship with him in 2013.

The two men, who apparently met at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, had begun working on projects together. When she was alone at his West Hollywood home, she claims he “grabbed me and put me on the bed,” adding that she saw “something go in his eyes, I swear to God, like, black, his eyes no longer had any color, they were black as the devil.”

She claimed he sexually assaulted her, before giving in, but then becoming “super angry”.

Legal proceedings reportedly threatened

Phoebe said she returned to work for Brand, who she said then threatened legal action if she reported or shared the incident.

The fourth woman claims she was sexually assaulted by Brand and also claimed he was physically and emotionally abusive towards her.

In Brand’s video, posted to a channel where he has made a number of anti-vaccination statements, he said he had been warned to “be careful… they are coming for you, you are getting closer to the truth “.

He added that he believed he was targeted because “there is a serious and concerted agenda to control these kinds of spaces and these kinds of voices.”