British actor Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual assault

British actor Russell Brand is accused of rape, sexual assault and psychological violence by several women between 2006 and 2013, in a three-media investigation published on Saturday.

Four women accuse the actor of sexual assault while Mr Brand was at the height of his career, both as a presenter on BBC Radio 2, Channel 4 and as a Hollywood film actor.

These accusations, refuted by Russell Brand, were revealed by the newspapers The Sunday Times and the Times, as well as Channel 4. According to an investigation, published in the Sunday Times, other alleged victims accused Russell Brand of dominant behavior , abusive and predatory.

Prior to the publication of this article, and the documentary broadcast on Saturday evening on Channel 4, Russell Brand, aged 48, had published a message on his X account (formerly Twitter) to “refute” the “very serious criminal charges” against him.

“I received two extremely disturbing messages (...), one from a mainstream television channel and the other from a newspaper, listing a litany of attacks (...) which I absolutely refute “, he said. “The relationships I have had have always been completely consensual,” he adds, denouncing a “coordinated attack” by the media against him.

In the investigation, one woman accuses the actor of raping her in his Los Angeles home, while another claims to have been sexually assaulted during a three-month relationship, when she was still a high school student and aged 16. During his career as a comedian, on television and in the cinema, in the United Kingdom then in the United States, Russell Brand was noted for his repeated escapades, his former addiction to alcohol and heroin, his brief marriage to pop singer Katy Perry and his tendency to brag about his many female conquests.

In the mid-2010s, he posed as an anti-capitalist activist, advocating “total revolution” and has recently increased the number of conspiratorial, anti-vaccine and anti-major media comments on his YouTube channel, followed by more than 6 million people. subscribers, or on his X account (ex-Twitter) with more than 11 million subscribers.

He urges his audience to remain “awake” and “free” in the face of information disseminated in traditional media. In 2014, in his book Revolution, he advocated “a radical redistribution of wealth”, “the dismantling of multinationals” and the injection of a good dose of “spiritualism” into society.

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Married since 2017 to Laura Gallagher, with whom he had two children, Russell Brand is currently touring the United Kingdom with his show Russell Brand Bipolarization.