“Predator”. Russell Brand, Katy Perry’s ex-husband, has been accused of rape and sexual assault by several women.

Rape, sexual assault and psychological abuse. Here are the charges against actor Russell Brand, as revealed in a lengthy investigation released this Saturday, September 16. Sunday TimesOR? Timesas well as channel 4. The actor and former partner of singer Katy Perry, now at the height of his career, is accused by four women of acts between 2006 and 2013.

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One woman accuses him of raping her in his Los Angeles home, while another claims she was sexually assaulted during a three-month relationship when he was a 16-year-old high school student. They all also condemned domineering, abusive and predatory behaviour, which the actor, but also a BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4 presenter, completely denies.

Some time before the publication of this investigation and the Channel 4 documentary, Russell Brand published video message on his X account to defend himself against the “very serious criminal charge”. “I have received two extremely disturbing messages (…), one from a mainstream TV channel, the other from a newspaper, listing a series of attacks (…), which I absolutely deny,” we read. “The relationships I’ve had have always been completely consensual,” she continues.

Heroin and anti-vax

The actor, recognizable for his tattoos, long brown hair and look that flirts with goth, began his career as a comedian before making his first forays into television, then UK film and then the UK. Having built his reputation on his repeated escapades, Russell Brand had a long history of addiction to alcohol and heroin. Having been married to singer Katy Perry for fourteen months between 2010 and 2011, he is also known to boast of his many female achievements.

In the mid-2010s, he emerged as an anti-capitalist activist advocating “total revolution” and has recently increased the number of conspiratorial, anti-vaccine and anti-mainstream media comments on his YouTube channel, which has more than 6 million subscribers. , or on his X account (formerly Twitter), with over 11 million subscribers. He urges his audience to remain “awake” and “free” in the face of information spread by traditional media. In his 2014 book Revolutionhe advocated a “radical redistribution of wealth”, “dismantling the multinationals” and injecting a large dose of “spiritualism” into society.

During the #MeToo movement, Russell Brand maintained that he did not regret his past sexual behavior, claiming that he had sex with several hundred women. Married to Laura Gallagher with whom he has two children since 2017, Russell Brand is currently touring the UK with his show Russell Brand Bipolarisation.

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