British police have opened a sex crimes investigation triggered by news reports about comedian Russell Brand.
21.09.2023 - 23:07 / nypost.com
reported by the BBC, the alleged victim, whom they are calling Olivia, claimed the assault happened on June 16, 2008, during the time she was working at the BBC’s Los Angeles location. After letting Brand, 48, and his team inside for a taping, Olivia went to the bathroom next to the radio station, where she bent down and squatted to get some sinus medication from a medicine cabinet.
It was at that moment, she claimed, that she felt a presence behind her.Turning around, she was face-to-face with the Brand’s crotch.“I was startled and got up and I realized it was the man that I’d let in — Russell,” she recalled. “As I open up the cupboard doors under the sink, I felt someone behind me.”According to Olivia, the 48-year-old actor then said he was going to call her Betty.
After she replied that wasn’t her name, he reportedly responded, “Well, I’m gonna f – – k you.” When she replied, “No, you’re not,” he pulled out his penis in his hand and “pretty much served it to me as you would be serving someone some food,” she claimed.Olivia recalled feeling trapped because the bathroom door was closed. “There was a bit of banter going on because I didn’t know what to do,” she said, adding that Brand then put his penis back in his trousers and left after someone banged on the door and called for him.Afterward, the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor was recorded laughing with his co-presenter Matt Morgan, who said Brand “showed his willy to a lady.”The Post has reached out to Brand for comment regarding the allegations.In the BBC’s coverage of the accusation, the organization said that “it was sorry to hear the allegations and would investigate them as part of a review into Brand’s time at the BBC.”BBC Director General Tim Davie announced
.British police have opened a sex crimes investigation triggered by news reports about comedian Russell Brand.
Russell Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC Radio 2 show.The woman, who remains anonymous, said the incident occurred in 2008 when she was working in the same building as the BBC in Los Angeles.Minutes later, Brand was recorded laughing about the encounter, with his co-presenter saying that the comedian “showed his willy to a lady”.Brand has not yet responded to the latest allegation. His co-presenter Matt Morgan told the BBC he was “not aware until now of the nature of this encounter”.Describing the incident, the woman alleges that she answered the door to Brand and his team, who were there to pre-record an episode of The Russell Brand Show for Radio 2.She then went to the bathroom to get some sinus medication, walking past the radio studio.
Russell Brand has posted a video addressing a “distressing week” following allegations of rape, sexual assault and controlling behaviour by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches in a joint investigation.The actor, comedian and presenter had already denied what he termed “very serious criminal allegations” in a video that was released last week (September 15). In the video, Brand insisted that his relationships have always been consensual.The allegations against Brand relate to a seven year period “at the height of his fame” between 2006 and 2013 according to The Sunday Times and come from four women, one of whom was 16 at the time.
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