British comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse over a seven-year period, according to the results of a media investigation published on Saturday.
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, the UK’s Channel 4 and acting in Hollywood films.
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 various allegations of Brand’s controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.
In a video released Friday, Brand, 48, denied the “very serious criminal allegations” he said will be made against him.
He said he received letters from a television company and a newspaper listing “a litany of extremely blatant and aggressive attacks”.
“Amidst this litany of rather startlingly baroque attacks are some very serious allegations which I absolutely refute,” he said in the video clip posted online.
He said that “these allegations are about 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, it was very, very promiscuous.”
He added that “during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.”
According to media reports, one woman alleged Brand raped her in her Los Angeles home, while another claims he assaulted her during a three-month relationship when she was 16 and still attending school
Internationally known as the ex-husband of pop star Katy Perry, Brand began his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 2000s.
He hosted the chat show Big Brother’s Big Mouth, a spin-off of the popular reality series, for three years starting in 2004.
He also played rock star Aldous Snow in the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall and its 2010 sequel Get Him To The Greek.
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