4 ladies allege that Model sexually assaulted them on the peak of his fame, in line with a joint investigation by three British information organisations.
British comic and actor Russell Model has been accused of committing rape, sexual assault and abuse between 2006 and 2013 on the peak of his fame, in line with a joint investigation by three British information organisations.
4 ladies, who knew him, alleged that Model sexually assaulted them throughout a interval when he labored for the BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4 and featured in Hollywood movies, the investigation by The Sunday Occasions, The Occasions and Channel 4 Dispatches reveals.
The Occasions mentioned one girl had made an allegation of rape, whereas one other mentioned Model assaulted her when she was 16 and nonetheless at college. Two of the accusers reported the incidents occurred in Los Angeles, the paper mentioned.
Channel 4 TV’s documentary present Dispatches, which was because of air additional particulars of the allegations in a while Saturday, additionally broadcast quite a lot of clips of the ladies on X, previously often known as Twitter, describing the alleged incidents.
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— Russell Model (@rustyrockets) September 15, 2023
‘I completely refute’
Model, 48, denied the allegations and mentioned that each one of his relationships have been consensual. The Sunday Occasions didn’t say if any of the ladies had made complaints to the police.
“Amidst this litany of astonishing, moderately baroque assaults are some very critical allegations that I completely refute,” he mentioned in a video message posted on X.
“These allegations pertain to the time once I was working within the mainstream, once I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, once I was within the films. And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I used to be very, very promiscuous,” Model added.
“Now, throughout that point of promiscuity, the relationships I had had been completely all the time consensual. I used to be all the time clear about them then … and I’m being clear about it now as nicely.”
Model added that he was a goal of a “coordinated assault”.
The Sunday Occasions mentioned its report was the results of a joint investigation with Dispatches that started in 2019.
Model rose to fame as a stand-up comedian in Britain within the early 2000s, which led to starring roles on Channel 4 and later BBC Radio, the place he capitalised on a repute for outrageous habits and risque banter.
He was the host of chat present Large Brother’s Large Mouth, a spin-off of the favored actuality collection, for 3 years from 2004.
He later made the soar to Hollywood, showing in movies resembling Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008 and the remake of Arthur in 2011. Model was married to US pop star Katy Perry from 2010 to 2012.
In recent times, he reworked himself right into a political commentator and influencer posting YouTube movies on topics resembling private freedom and the COVID-19 pandemic.
