British police are questioning comedian, actor and YouTuber Russell Brand in connection with three allegations that he committed sexual offenses, according to British news reports.
On Sunday, London’s Times newspaper and the BBC reported that Metropolitan Police officers interviewed the 48-year-old Mr. Brand at a police station in south London on Thursday. He was not charged.
London police have been investigating Mr. Brand’s past behavior since September, after three British news organizations published a lengthy investigation in which four women accused him of sexual assault in separate incidents between 2006 and 2013.
Mr Brand posted a clip on his social media channels, pre-empting the news media investigation, in which he denied all “serious criminal allegations” against him and said all his relationships with women had been consensual.
A few days after the investigation was published, London police said by email that they had “received a report of a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in Soho, central London, in 2003” and that they were investigating.
British police never confirm the identity of a person against whom there is a complaint, but on Sunday London police issued a new statement in response to queries about the journalistic investigation into Mr. Brand.
The statement said a man in his 40s was “interviewed under caution by investigators in connection with three non-recent sexual offenses” at a police station in south London on Thursday. The investigation is ongoing, it said. Both the BBC and the Times of London reported that the man was Mr. Brand.
On Sunday, Mr. Brand did not immediately respond to a request for comment.