Russell Brand on Sept. 16, 2023.Photo:James Manning/PA Images via Getty
James Manning/PA Images via Getty
Russell Brandis meeting with law enforcement in London amidongoing police investigations into multiple allegations of sexual offensesmade against him, according to theBBCandThe Times of London.
On Monday, London’s Metropolitan Police department confirmed to PEOPLE that a man, understood to be Brand, 48, was interviewed at a South London police station last Thursday in relation to the investigation.
Representatives for Brand did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment, but he has repeatedly denied the allegations against him.
Russell Brand on Sept. 16, 2023.James Manning/PA Images via Getty
After initial allegations against Brand were published, the actor shared a video onInstagramSept. 16 in which he described the allegations made against him as “extremely egregious and aggressive attacks” and said he “absolutely refutes” those claims.
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On Oct. 2, a second U.K.-based police department in Thames Valley also appeared toopen a separate investigation into Brandafter it “received new information in relation to harassment and stalking allegations dating back to 2018,” per a statement shared with PEOPLE at the time.
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies," Brand said in his Sept. 16 Instagram video. “And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.”
In September, Brand was also accused of exposing himself to a woman and then laughing about it on while broadcasting his BBC Radio 2 show in 2008, asBBC Newsreported. The outlet reported that BBC management was informed about the incident in 2019, though no formal action was taken.
On Nov. 4, an anonymous woman filed a lawsuit against Brand in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Suffolk County, in which shealleged Brand sexually assaulted her in a bathroomand exposed his penis to her on the set of Brand’s 2011 movieArthur. Brand has not publicly addressed that lawsuit.
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source: people.com
