Russell Brand arrives on the Rock of Ages premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2012.

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Russell Brand arrives on the Rock of Ages premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2012.

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Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse, in response to a joint investigation revealed Saturday by British media. The actor denies the allegations.

The allegations in opposition to the British entertainer emerged in an investigation by the The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4.

“Four women have alleged sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, while he was a presenter for BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4 and then an actor in Hollywood films,” The Times mentioned in its unique report, which was collectively authored by journalists Rosamund Unwin, Charlotte Wace and Paul Morgan-Bentley. “Others have made a range of accusations about Brand’s controlling, abusive and predatory behavior.”

Brand issued a video statement on Friday denying the allegations.

“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” he mentioned. Brand added that he has at all times been open about his years of sexual promiscuity, and mentioned all the relationships he had “were absolutely always consensual.”

According to an accompanying report in regards to the investigation course of revealed by The Times, the Sunday Times launched its inquiries into Brand’s conduct in 2019, after the information group “was made aware of allegations against Russell Brand relating to his treatment of women.”

The Times mentioned that over the previous few years, reporters have interviewed “hundreds of sources who knew or worked with Brand: ex-girlfriends and their friends and family, comedians and other celebrities, people who worked with him on radio and TV, and senior staff at the BBC, Channel 4 and other media organizations.”

The media group mentioned reporters have additionally “seen private emails and text messages, submitted freedom of information requests, viewed medical and therapists’ notes, scrutinized Brand’s books and interviews, and watched and listened to hundreds of hours of his shows on the BBC, Channel 4 and YouTube to corroborate allegations.”

In response to a request for remark, Brand’s representatives referred NPR to Brand’s video assertion.

After launching his profession as a standup comic within the early 2000s, Brand appeared in lots of TV exhibits and movies equivalent to Get Him to the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He is the writer of bestselling books and hosts an internet collection and the podcast Stay Free with Russell Brand.

Brand has been accused of undesirable sexual advances earlier than. In 2006, the Australian superstar Dannii Minogue referred to his “sex addiction” within the Daily Mirror, and referred to as him “a vile predator.”

Brand is presently performing a collection of dwell exhibits within the U.Ok., a lot of that are offered out. NPR reached out to imminent venues the place the entertainer is anticipated to seem Saturday and subsequent Tuesday. Wembley Park Theatre, the venue for Saturday’s efficiency, couldn’t be reached. But a field workplace consultant at Theatre Royal Windsor, the place Brand is scheduled to seem on Tuesday, mentioned the present is presently is “still on,” including that this might change within the coming days.