London police said Monday they had received a report of an alleged sexual assault that occurred 20 years ago, adding to allegations against former British presenter and actor Russell Brand.
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Citing allegations carried by the Sunday Times and Channel 4, London police said they received a report on Sunday of a sexual assault that allegedly took place in the busy Soho district in 2003.
“Investigators are in contact with the woman,” a spokesman said at the heart of the allegation, explaining that she would benefit from police assistance.
“We continue to encourage anyone who believes they have been the victim of a sexual assault, regardless of duration, to contact us,” the Scotland Yard spokesman added.
In a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and The Times newspapers and Channel 4, four women accused the actor of rape or sexual assault between 2006 and 2013, when Russell Brand was at the peak of his career, both as presenters on BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4 and as an actor in Hollywood.
Before these publications, the 48-year-old former presenter, who is now mainly active on social networks, had firmly denied these allegations and assured in a video published on several platforms that he had always had “completely consensual” relationships. He denounced a “coordinated attack”.
During his career as a comedian, on television and in the cinema, in the United Kingdom and then in the United States, Russell Brand was known for his repeated escapades, his former alcohol and heroin addiction, his brief marriage to the pop singer Katy Perry, and his tendency to to brag about his numerous female conquests.
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He has recently made numerous conspiratorial, anti-vaccine and anti-mainstream comments on his YouTube channel, which has more than 6 million subscribers, or on his X account (formerly Twitter), which has more than 11 million subscribers.
The affair sparked reactions from as far away as Downing Street, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman speaking on Monday of “very serious and worrying allegations”.
The media that employed Russell Brand also announced on Sunday that they were investigating these allegations internally.