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British comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse during a seven-year period, according to the results of a media investigation published Saturday.
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Four women have alleged sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013 when Brand was at the height of his fame working as a presenter for BBC Radio 2, Channel 4 and acting in Hollywood movies, a newspaper said.
The allegations, which Brand denies, were made in a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
According to the investigation, published in the Sunday Times, others have made a range of accusations about Brand’s controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.
In a video released on Friday, Brand, 48, denied the “very serious criminal allegations” that he said will be made against him.
He said he received letters from a TV company and a newspaper listing “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks”.
“Amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” he said in the video clip posted online.
He said “these allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous”.
He added that “during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual”.
According to the media findings, one woman alleged Brand raped her in his Los Angeles home while another claims he assaulted her during a three-month relationship while she was 16 and still at school.
Known internationally as the former husband of pop star Katy Perry, Brand began his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 2000s.
He was the host of chat show Big Brother’s Big Mouth, a spin off…
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