Actor Russell Brand’s agents have dropped him following allegations that the Hollywood star turned podcaster raped and sexually assaulted multiple women.
London talent agency Tavistock Wood dropped Brand after four women accused him of rape, sexual assault and psychological abuse, according to a report from Independent.
“TW has terminated all professional ties with Brand,” the talent agency told the outlet.
Tavistock Wood went on to explain that an allegation of sexual assault against Brand was first brought to the agency’s attention in 2020 – and now talent agents feel “horribly misled” by the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star following these latest accusations.
“Russell Brand categorically and vehemently denied the allegations made in 2020, but we now believe we were horribly misled by him,” Tavistock Wood said.
As Breitbart News reported Saturday, a joint investigation by public news channel Channel 4 and the Sunday Times in Britain, made public allegations by several women of harrowing incidents between 2006 and 2013.
Brand was married to pop star Katy Perry from 2010 to 2012, during the period covered by the allegations. (Christophe Polk/Getty Images)
A woman told media that she was raped by Brand in his Los Angeles home and sought treatment at a rape crisis center later that day.
Media reports claimed to have seen text messages from hours after the alleged encounter in which the woman told the actor she felt he had taken advantage of her, adding: “When a girl says NO , that means no.” to which Brand reportedly responded that he was “very sorry.”
A second woman claimed that Rock of Ages The star had sexually assaulted her when she was only 16 years old. She said she had a three-month relationship with Brand, during which the actor called her “child” and once strangled her while he “shoved his penis down her throat “.
“Russell behaved like a groomer, looking back, but I didn’t even know what that was at the time, or what it looked like,” the woman said.
A third woman claimed Brand sexually assaulted her while they worked together in Los Angeles, saying he threatened to sue her if she made her claims public.
Finally, a fourth woman alleged that the actor had sexually assaulted her and that he had physically and emotionally abused her.
Brand vehemently denied the allegations, saying that although he lived a “promiscuous” life, all of his sexual interactions were consensual.
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